Ontology based online tourism offer integration

01.08.2006 - 31.12.2009
Research funding project
Information creation, maintenance and delivery are the primary business processes of institutional tourism intermediaries, which face information heterogeneities in various dimensions. It requires manual coordination tasks, and suffers from missing consensus on agreed concepts and technologies. OnTourism is aimed at (1) applying, concretizing and evaluating Semantic Web technologies such as ontologies, semantic annotation of content, and semantic search to this information-rich and economically quite important domain, (2) identifying, developing and integrating reference ontologies for the tourism industry, and (3) showing the proof-of-concept in a real-world scenario of the Austrian tourism industry. OnTourism seeks to explore and expand the potential of advanced semantic technologies in a research domain of strong national interest, strength, and tradition.

People

Project leader

Project personnel

Institute

Grant funds

  • FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH (National) Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

Research focus

  • Business Informatics: 100%

Keywords

GermanEnglish
semantic websemantic web
Daten Extraktion und Integrationdata extraction and integration
semantische Suchesemantic search
TourismusTourism

External partner

  • electronic commerce competence center

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