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!