Open Data and Tourism

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1 Open Data and Tourism Irini Fundulaki Institute of Computer Science-FORTH possible by the INTERREG IVC programme The contents reflect the author's views. The Managing Authority is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein

2 Open Data Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control Goals are similar to those of open movements Open source Open hardware (open design movement) Open access (creative work others can work on and modify Creative Commons License) Open content (unrestricted access to peer-reviewed scientific papers) (input from Wikipedia) 2

3 Open Data Not an old idea! Has been revamped with the launch of open data initiatives especially from data.gov.uk & data.gov Sources of Open Data Science: genomes, connectomes (neural connections in the brain), proteins, chemical compounds, astronomy, geology, bioscience, biodiversity, scientific formulas, Government: municipalities, governments, non governmental organizations, Transportation Roads Maps 3

4 Open Data & Tourism Open Data are used to promote the assets cities have to offer to their visitors Points of Interest Arts & Entertainment Colleges & Universities Food Professional & Other Places Nightlife Spots Outdoors & Recreation Residences Shops & Services Travel & Transport Automotive Community and Government Healthcare Landmarks Retail Services and Supplies Social Sports and Recreation Transportation Travel 4

5 (Open) City of Brussels: Open Data List Comic book route French- language libraries Dutch-language libraries Toilets Urinals Parking lots Parking space for disabled Sports halls and stadiums ATMs Administrative center and liaison offices Tourist Offices Youth hotels Police stations Parks Cultural Places French-language schools Dutch-language schools Community centers Dog toilets Glass containers European institutions Wifi Museums Public Computer Rooms (PCRs) Public Internet Access Points Municipal news Contests Job Offers Invasive exotic plants Sectors of the local resident card Remarkable trees Number of visitors City of Brussels website Theaters Cinemas Advertising columns Billboards Swimming pools Android application 5

6 Open European Cities: City of Brussels 6

7 Open European Cities: Helsinki 7

8 Open European Cities: Helsinki 8

9 Open European Cities: Helsinki Personalized Access 9

10 Open European Cities: Barcelona 10

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12 Open Data & Tourism Actors: Tourist: free access to information of interest (points of interest, services) Professional: free promotion of business, improvement of services, deciding business plans, ability to establish collaborations between different businesses Personalized Services can be built on top of Open Data Tourist: ability to customize his trip according to this preferences given various kinds of information such as Maps Weather Proximity between points of interest Accommodation Restaurants 12

13 Personalized Services CitySDK «provides a toolkit for the development of digital services within cities». comprises of open and interoperable digital service interfaces as well as processes, guidelines and usability standards enables a more efficient utilization of the expertise and know-how of developer communities to be applied in city service development. Developed in cooperation with the Code for Europe fellows. Ultimate goal : create a European-wide market for tourism applications based on public and private Open Data Services allow tourists to experience the city in a new way 13

14 Technologies for Open Data Linking Open Data Publish public open data as Linked Open Data Interlink entities between heterogeneous sources 14

15 Traditional Web single information space: global filesystem designed for human consumption documents are the primary objects with a loose structure untyped hyperlinks between documents URLs are the globally unique IDs and part of the retrieval mechanism cannot ask expressive queries Hartig, Cyganiac, Bizer, Hausenblas, Heath How to Publish Linked Data on the Web 15

16 Going from the Web of Documents to the a global database Web of Data designed for machines first, humans later things are the primary objects with a well defined structure typed links between things ability to express structured queries The Web of Linked Data Tom Heath, An Introduction to Linked Data 16

17 Linked Data publishing and interlinking structured data on the Web using Semantic Web technologies sharing structured data on the Web as easily as documents are shared today is about using the Web to create typed links between different sources accessed through a single, standardized access mechanism Web Of Data, Semantic Web (Data Commons) a space where people and organizations can post and consume data about anything 17

18 Linked Open Data Cloud (May 2007) 18

19 Linked Open Data Cloud (September 2008) 19

20 Linked Open Data Cloud (September 2008) 20

21 Linked Open Data Cloud (March 2009) 21

22 Linked Data in numbers (September 2011) 22

23 Linked Data Applications Linked Data Browsers Explore the Linked Data Cloud: recognize and follow links between the nodes in the graph Installed and configured as add-ons to existing browsers Systems: Tabulator Browser Marbles (FU Berlin, DE) OpenLink RDF Browser (OpenLink, UK) Zitgist RDF Browser (Zitgist, USA) Disco Hyperdata Browser (FU Berlin, DE) Fenfire (DERI, Ireland) 23

24 Linked Data Applications Linked Data Mashups Domain Specific Applications that use Linked Data Systems: Revuy.com: everything you can review, uses Linked Data to enrich ratings DBtune Slashfacet: Visualizes music-related Linked Data DERI Semantic Web Pipes: open source, extendable, embeddable Web Data mashups 24

25 Conclusions Open Data are here and growing Open Data can and should be used for Tourism-related services Benefit both tourists and professionals Technologies for exploring (Big) Open Data 25