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Linked Open Tourism Data
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The idea is to convert available tourism data (e.g. nights, occupancy, by canton) to semantic web data (RDF).
For the user, a graphical representation of the canton is provided which holds additional information. This information forms the basis for further navigation. Those additional information is gathered via smart linkage of different open data sources.
Approach
To create an added value, different information from various data sources must be linked together. Many data sources implement the RDF format to describe their meta data. That's why we're going to use as much RDF data sources as possible.
Some of the main difficulty in the beginning is the transformation of existing (meta) data into the RDF language. We started with an excel file and used Google Refine to transform those raw, messy data.
To visualize those data, we're currently using an svg+javascript approach.
Data
Technology
- Markup: HTML 5 (http://www.html5rocks.com)
- Template Engine for Markup: twig (http://twig.sensiolabs.org)
- Style for Markup: Twitter Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap)
- Programming language: PHP (http://php.net)
- Application Framework: use existing framework or create one ourself ?
- System for data storage: sql or nosql ?
- Data model scheme: RDF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework)
Team
Links
- Relevant documentation …
- Blog or forum posts …