ETIHQ - Exposing Tourism Indicators as High Quality Linked Data Marta Sabou
Context
Tourism Indicators Destination Arrivals Capacity Markets
Tourism Indicators Destination Arrivals Capacity Markets Bednights
TourMIS - a key source of European Tourism Statistics Developed at … supported and used by several national and European tourism organisations Data since indicators About 154 destinations Annual and monthly measurements Heterogeneous ownership Daily Updates
TourMIS Data TLL RU In 01/2012, Russian tourists visited Tallin.
Expose (ALL) TourMIS data as high quality Linked Data Support tourism data owners to publish, connect and exploit their data sources for decision support by making use of Linked Data technologies
Objectives and Concept TourMIS ExtInd ETIHQ Raw DataLinked Data Domain ontology Provenance O1:Publish TI’s as LD Triplification Interlinking Publishing O2:Link to external TI’s O3:Build a tourism DSS Application System Development
TourMIS ETIHQ Repository ETIHQ Repository ExtInd T1.1 Ontology Building T1.1 Ontology Building WP1: Modelling WP2:Publishing WP3: Sys. Devel. T2.1 Data Triplif. & Publishing T2.2 Data Linking T3.1 System Development T4.2 Perspective Exploitation Plan T4.2 Perspective Exploitation Plan WP4: Dissemination T4.1 Dissemination WPs and Tasks
Project Results
Base Ontology POI OntologyShopping Ontology D26.1: Semantic Modelling of Toursim Indicators
RDF Data Cube model
Adding Provenance with PROV-O ed:ob11 a qb:Observation qb:dataSet edo:Arrivals; edo:Market edo:RU; edo:Destination Tallin; edo:ArrivalsMeasurement 2589; prov:Person ed:Adrian; prov:generatedAtTime " T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime
D The ETIHQ LD Repository Data.etihq.eu 16M triples Sesame/Pubby (later Fuseki) Links to geonames and DBPedia Major issues: Databased had to be refactored Not many tools support Microsoft SQL server Publishing tools have poor documentation, change frequently
D The ETIHQ LD Repository
D Tourism decision support portal
Dissemination
Deliverable Status
More on dissemination Multiple talks at TourMIS‘13 and TourMIS‘14 Networking with main tourism organizations 2 deliverables and 3 papers planned Extenssive coverage in Austrian Press
Exploitation
Market Watch:Tourism indicator providers UNWTOEurostatWorldBankETIHQ Country YYYN City NNNY Year YYYY Month NYNY Access xls/pdfxls/csv/ pdf/spss xml/xls/APIRDF/LD Open (but not yet Linked) Data
Market Watch:Tourism decision support CoverageIndicator’s domain Technology BastisBaltic Sea Region MixedWiki/community contributions PataAsiaTourismNot known (commercial) ETIHQEuropeTourism, economics, environment LD (QB)
Exploitation Potential Data Set Mostly public Cost-models based on accessed data volume or data recency Decision Support Tool => new products Adaptation to other domains (finance) Combination of web media and statistical indicator visualisation webLyzard SME can perform exploitation Know-how Consultancy services for tourism organizations
Management
All objectives reached Delays during the project handled successfully
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