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Providing Interchangeable Open Data to Accelerate Development of Sustainable Regional Mobile Tourist Guides

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Travelers expect access to tourism information at anytime, anywhere, with any media. Mobile tourist guides, accessible via the Web, provide an omnipresent approach to this. Thereby it is expensive and not trivial to (re)model, translate and transform data over and over. This inhibits many players, including governments, in developing such applications. This paper reports on the experiences of a project on mobile tourism in Flanders, Belgium where a reusable formalization for the data disclosure was developed. Applying open standards contributed to the achievement of a reusable and interoperable datahub for mobile tourisms. The organized working groups delivered in a re-usable formal specification and serialization of the domain model that is immediately usable for building mobile tourism applications. This increased the awareness and lead to semantic convergence which is forming a regional foundation to develop sustainable mobile guides for tourism.

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ICEGOV '15-16: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
March 2016
453 pages
ISBN:9781450336406
DOI:10.1145/2910019
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  1. Domain Model
  2. Mobile Guide
  3. Ontology Alignment
  4. Semantic Convergence Process
  5. Sustainable Tourism
  6. Traveler Experience

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