Acquisition and Relevance of Geotagged Information in Tourism

Astrid Dickinger (), Arno Scharl (), Hermann Stern (), Albert Weichselbraun () and Karl Wöber ()
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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

A chapter in Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2008, 2008, pp 545-555 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: geotagging; text mining; information retrieval; tourism information systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-77280-5_48

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