ETIHQ - Exposing Tourism Indicators as High Quality Linked Data Marta Sabou
Jan 16, 2016
ETIHQ - Exposing Tourism Indicators as High Quality Linked
DataMarta 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 1985
10+ indicators
About 154 destinations
Annual and monthly measurements
Heterogeneous ownership
Daily Updates
TourMIS Data
<data><destination>TLL</destination><market>RU</market><year>2012</year> <month>1</month><value>28033</value>
</data>
In 01/2012, 28033 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 Data Linked Data
Domain ontologyProvenance
O1:Publish TI’s as LD
TriplificationInterlinkingPublishing
O2:Link to external TI’s O3:Build a tourism DSS
Application
SystemDevelopment
TourMIS
ETIHQRepository
ExtInd
T1.1 OntologyBuilding
T1.1 OntologyBuilding
WP1: Modelling WP2:Publishing
WP3: Sys. Devel.
T2.1 Data Triplif. & Publishing
T2.1 Data Triplif. & Publishing
T2.2 Data Linking
T2.2 Data Linking
T3.1 System DevelopmentT3.1 System
Development
T4.2 PerspectiveExploitation PlanT4.2 PerspectiveExploitation Plan
WP4: Dissemination
T4.1 DisseminationT4.1 Dissemination
WPs and Tasks
Project Results
Base Ontology
POI Ontology Shopping Ontology
D26.1: Semantic Modelling of Toursim Indicators
Components Dataset Dimensions Measurements Attributes
Arrivals Time Market Destination
ArrivalsMeasurement unitMeasure
Bednights Time Market Destination
BednightsMeasurement unitMeasure
Capacity Time Market Destination
CapacityMeasurement unitMeasure
Arrivals_At_POIs Time PointOfInterest Destination
ArrivalsAtPOIMeasurement unitMeasure
Shopping_Items Time ShoppingItemType Destination
ShoppingItemPrice Currency
RDF Data Cube model
Adding Provenance with PROV-O
ed:ob11 a qb:Observationqb:dataSet edo:Arrivals;edo:Market edo:RU;edo:Destination Tallin;edo:ArrivalsMeasurement 2589; prov:Person ed:Adrian;prov:generatedAtTime "2013-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime
D27.1 - 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
D27.1 - The ETIHQ LD Repository
D28.1 - 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
UNWTO Eurostat WorldBank ETIHQ
Country Y Y Y N
City N N N Y
Year Y Y Y Y
Month N Y N Y
Access xls/pdf xls/csv/pdf/spss
xml/xls/API RDF/LD
Open (but not yet Linked) Data
Market Watch:Tourism decision support
Coverage
Indicator’s domain
Technology
Bastis
Baltic SeaRegion
Mixed Wiki/community contributions
Pata Asia Tourism Not known (commercial)
ETIHQ
Europe Tourism, 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
Management
All objectives reached Delays during the project handled
successfully
THANK YOU!