Alila, S., F.; Coustaty, M.; Rempulski, N.; Doucet, A. at ENTER2016 eTourism Conference

1. Université de La Rochelle
ENTER 2016 @ Bilbao
eTourism: Empowering Places
05/01/2016

2. 2
Objectives and issues
Présentation

3. Objectives and issues
TourinFlux project
> Providing the tourism industry with a set of tools allowing them :
– to handle both their internal data, and the information available
on the Web,
– to generate dashboards,
Présentation3

4. Présentation
Objectives and issues

5. Objectives and issues
TourinFlux project
> Providing the tourism industry with a set of tools allowing them :
– to handle both their internal data, and the information available
on the Web,
– to generate dashboards,
– to publish dashboards on the Web,
– to improve the display of information available about their
territory on the Web.
 Allow them to improve their decision process and their
effectiveness.
Présentation5

6. Objectives and issues
Présentation6
Problematic
> Tools used currently are inadequate to meet these needs.
> Problem of collecting and exchanging tourism data.
> Problem of diffusing tourism data on the Web.
Locks
> Facilitate collecting data on the Web.
> Facilitate data exchange between different tourism’ actors :
 Interoperability.
> The standardization of tourism data modeling :
 Homogeneity.
> Facilitate the publication of these data on the Web.

7. 7
Tourism standards
Présentation

8. Tourism standard : TourInFRANCE
What?
> TourInFrance (TIF): standard established in 1999 by Atout France.
> Used today by more than 3000 tourism’ actors in France.
> Facilitate data exchange between these different actors at a national level.
> In 2004, the TIF Technical Group approved the new version of TIF: TIF V3.
Problematic
> Since 2005, the standard has stopped evolving.
> Tourism’ actors adapted the standard to their own needs.
Présentation8

9. Tourism standard : TourInFRANCE
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10. Tourism standard : TourInFRANCE
Problematic
> Tourism’ actors adapted the standard to their own needs :
 Tourism Information Systems (TIS) not interoperable among themselves.
 The exploitation of tourism information is trapped in its own territory.
 Impossibility to aggregate these information.
> Language TIF : XML.
 Structured data : lack of semantics.
 Lack of expressiveness.
 Explicit data : impossibility to infer new knowledges.
Présentation10

11. Tourism standard : TourInFRANCE
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Solution
> Evolve the TIF standard.
> Applying the concept of ontology to represent the standard terminology.
TIF  TIFSem
> TIFSem, an ontology to globally describe tourism domain :
 to annotate information sources on tourism,
 to support heterogeneous contents,
 to facilitate sharing the knowledge it represents,
 to ensure data interoperability.

12. What?
> Initiative launched by Bing, Google, Yahoo! and Yandex in 2011.
> Creating a common model for the content of Web pages.
Why?
> Facilitate searching and integrating data on the Web.
Schema.org
Présentation12

13. Schema.org
Présentation13
http://schema.org/docs/full.html
https://schema.org/Person

14. TIFSem/Schema.org Mapping
Présentation14
> Matching terms of TIF with terms of Schema.org by using OWL relations.

15. 15
Data Tourism: Ontology based model
Présentation

16. 16 Présentation
TIS
Data Tourism: Ontology based model

17. 17 Présentation
Data Tourism: Ontology based model

18. Université de La Rochelle
L’Université nouvelle génération
23 avenue Albert Einstein - BP 33060 - 17031 La Rochelle
www.univ-larochelle.fr
fayrouz.soualah-alila@univ-lr.fr