North Sumatera tourism spots searching system based on semantic web

Abstract

North Sumatera Province in Indonesia has many amazing tourism spots to visit. Unfortunately, information about these places is not organized well yet. Not all of these tourism spots have official websites and that made information with specific parameters according to user needs cannot be fulfilled if only depend on a search engine on the internet. The limitation of ordinary search engines cannot generate complex queries that involving relevant background knowledge of these places such as tourist locations, facilities offered, culinary and so on. Therefore in this paper, we offer North Sumatera Tourist sports searching system based on the semantic web. We utilized ontology as a source of knowledge that describes tourism in the province of North Sumatera. We observed and scrapped information about tourism spots in North Sumatera from trusted traveling websites. The next stage is the design of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and ontology to describe relations between parameters. The result of this study produces a system that can help and understand the desires of tourists to get information about tourism objects in North Sumatera. Test results with various relevant semantic keywords parameter show the success of this system is 85%.