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Acquisition and Relevance of Geotagged Information in Tourism

In: Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2008

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  • Astrid Dickinger

    (MODUL University Vienna)

  • Arno Scharl

    (MODUL University Vienna)

  • Hermann Stern

    (Graz University of Technology)

  • Albert Weichselbraun

    (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration)

  • Karl Wöber

    (MODUL University Vienna)

Abstract

In the case of tourism applications, it is particularly evident that geography is emerging as a fundamental principle for structuring Web resources. Recent improvements in semantic and geographic Web technology, often referred to as the Geospatial Web, acknowledge the relevance of adding location metadata to existing databases and accessing the vast amounts of information stored in these databases via geospatial services. This paper outlines the acquisition of geospatial context information, describes usage scenarios and real-world applications in the tourism industry, and presents an automated software tool for annotating large collections of Web documents automatically. The quality of this tool is tested based upon Web pages from the Austrian National Tourism Organization. Initial results are encouraging and help define a roadmap for further improving the automated tagging of tourism resources.

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  • Astrid Dickinger & Arno Scharl & Hermann Stern & Albert Weichselbraun & Karl Wöber, 2008. "Acquisition and Relevance of Geotagged Information in Tourism," Springer Books, in: Peter O’Connor & Wolfram Höpken & Ulrike Gretzel (ed.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2008, pages 545-555, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-211-77280-5_48
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-77280-5_48
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