TOURISM INFORMATION AGGREGATION USING AN ONTOLOGY BASED APPROACH

Miguel Gouveia, Jorge Cardoso

2007

Abstract

Aggregating related information, from different data sources, allows the creation of data repositories with very useful information. In the tourism domain, aggregating tourism products with related tourism attractions will add value to those products. The ability to create dynamic packages is another reason to aggregate tourism information. Defining an ontology, composed by the concepts to aggregate, is the first step to create tourism aggregation systems. In this paper we define the approach and the architecture that guides to the creation of aggregated solutions that provide valued tourism information and that allow the creation of dynamic packages.

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Gouveia M. and Cardoso J. (2007). TOURISM INFORMATION AGGREGATION USING AN ONTOLOGY BASED APPROACH . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-88-7, pages 569-572. DOI: 10.5220/0002371705690572


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Miguel Gouveia and Jorge Cardoso},
title={TOURISM INFORMATION AGGREGATION USING AN ONTOLOGY BASED APPROACH},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={569-572},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002371705690572},
isbn={978-972-8865-88-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - TOURISM INFORMATION AGGREGATION USING AN ONTOLOGY BASED APPROACH
SN - 978-972-8865-88-7
AU - Gouveia M.
AU - Cardoso J.
PY - 2007
SP - 569
EP - 572
DO - 10.5220/0002371705690572