Developments in German e-Tourism: An Industry Perspective

Brözel, Claudia

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05324-6_11-1

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“…Some of the efforts in e-tourism start to turn the interest on using semantic web tools, since available data, content, and services are becoming semantically annotated, which allow software components to search through the web and understand its content. Experiences such the ones described in [13], [46], [47] reveal the benefits and advantages on using linked open data in e-tourism. The idea is to build cultural heritage knowledge from collaboration between open data published by several institutions (e.g., governments, people interested, tourists), enriched with data from other sources like DBPedia and social media.…”

Section: A E-tourism and Semantic Webmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Ontology for Modeling Cultural Heritage Knowledge in Urban Tourism

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Urban tourism information available on Internet has been of enormous relevance to motivate the tourism in many countries. There exist many applications focused on promoting and preserving the cultural heritage, through urban tourism, which in turn demand a well-defined and standard model for representing the whole knowledge of this domain, thus ensuring interoperable and flexible applications. Current studies propose the use of ontologies to formally model such knowledge. Nonetheless, most of them only represent partial knowledge of cultural heritage or are restrictive to an indoor perspective (i.e., museum ontologies). In this context, we propose the ontology CURIOCITY (Cultural Heritage for Urban Tourism in Indoor/Outdoor environments of the CITY), to represent the cultural heritage knowledge based on UNESCO's definitions. CURIOCITY ontology has a three-level architecture (Upper, Middle, and Lower ontologies) in accordance with a purpose of modularity and levels of specificity. In this paper, we describe in detail all modules of CURIOCITY ontology and perform a comparative evaluation with state-of-the-art ontologies. Additionally, to demonstrate the suitability of CURIOCITY ontology, we show several touristic services offered through a framework supported in the ontology. The framework includes an automatic population process, that allows transforming a museum data repository (in CSV format) into RDF triples of CURIOCITY ontology to automatically populate the CURIOCITY repository, and facilities to develop a set of tourism applications and services, following the UNESCO's definitions.

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Section: A E-tourism and Semantic Webmentioning

confidence: 99%