Abstract
The notion of context has been widely studied and there are several authors that have proposed different definitions of context. However, context has not been widely studied in the framework of human mobility and the notion of context has been imported directly from other computing fields without specifically addressing the tourism domain requirements. In order to store and manage context information a context data model and a context management platform are needed. Ontologies have been widely used in context modelling, but many of them are designed to be applied in general ubiquitous computing environments, do not contain specific concepts related to the tourism domain or some approaches do not contain enough concepts to represent context information related to the visitor on the move. That is why we propose a new approach to provide a better solution to model context data in tourism environments, adding more value to our solution reusing data about tourist resources from an Open Data repository and publishing it as Linked Data. We also propose the architecture for a context information management platform based on this context data model.
Highlights
The customization of information in mobile scenarios is quite crucial since the user is on the move and he/she usually requires a very specific information at a given time and place
We propose a new approach to provide a better solution to context data modelling in tourism environments
The rest of this paper is structured as follows: in Section 2, we introduce our context data model, remarking aspects to consider for context management and some particular details of our solution, including how the information represented by our data model is published
Summary
The customization of information in mobile scenarios is quite crucial since the user is on the move and he/she usually requires a very specific information at a given time and place. That is especially the case of the tourism domain, where visitors need personalised information about points of interest and nearby activities This way, it is crucial for services to be able to acquire data about the visitor’s context in order to adapt the functionality of the system to the gathered data, but this personalization process is not a trivial task, because data from different context sources has to be acquired and processed by context-aware systems in order to provide the user with the needed information. A tourism information system, called TourExp, has been implemented in order to validate this new approach This system includes a content management system where tourist providers (owners of tourist resources or travel agencies) can publish their information and tourist offer (activities and packages) and the staff of the Basque Tourism Agency (tourist technicians and area managers) can organize this touristic offer in terms of travel experiences using several criteria.
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