Leveraging heterogeneous Cultural Heritage data to promote tourism
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Data Science, Databases, Spatial and Geographic Information Systems
- Keywords
- tourism, spatio temporal, patrimonial data
- Copyright
- © 2018 Bessagnet et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2018. Leveraging heterogeneous Cultural Heritage data to promote tourism. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27189v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27189v1
Abstract
This paper presents part of the European FEDER Project TCVPYR, which aims to promote tourism in the French Pyrenees region by leveraging elements of its cultural heritage. The TCVPYR is a multidisciplinary project involving scientists from various domains, including: computers scientists, geographers, historians and anthropologists. In order to achieve its goal, some of the TCVPYR researchers are currently collecting georeferenced cultural heritage data in different areas of the Pyrenees. This data, together with data from the local governments and the Open Data, is intended to feed a mobile application that promotes the tourism in the region. The mobile application will allow tourists, but also scientists, to access cultural heritage data in the form of points of interest (POI). Moreover, these POI are to be presented according to the user profile and the environmental context, including spatiotemporal aspects such as his current location. For example, the application may suggest to a tourist an itinerary with several POI taking into account his interests, means of locomotion, available time and mobile features (battery level, internet connexion…). All data collected in this project as well as the final application will be published as open data and open source.
Author Comment
The objective of our works is to propose an open source software able to to manage data source heterogeneity and to generate other ones in order to propose context oriented and on the fly itineraries according to several criterions (time, means of transport, personal interest, current close events, etc.). In this first step, we propose a software architecture and an implementation in order to manage data source heterogeneity.
