Leveraging heterogeneous Cultural Heritage data to promote tourism
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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.
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2018. Leveraging heterogeneous Cultural Heritage data to promote tourism. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27189v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27189v1Author 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.
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Supplemental Information
Patrimonial data dissemination through open data platforms
An example of a patrimonial object exported to Wikipedia
Patrimonial data dissemination through a tourist application
An example of a first prototype for the tourist application
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Competing Interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Author Contributions
Marie-Noelle Bessagnet contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.
Patrick Etcheverry performed the computation work, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.
Anning Lacayrelle performed the computation work, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.
Christophe Marquesuzaà performed the computation work, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.
Landy Rajaonarivo performed the computation work, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.
Philippe Roose performed the computation work, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.
Andre Sales Fonteles conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.
Christian Sallaberry performed the computation work, approved the final draft.
Data Deposition
The following information was supplied regarding data availability:
The research in this article did not generate any data or code.
Funding
These work are supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Project TCV-PYR (2017-2020), in collaboration with Occitanie-Méditerranée and Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regions. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
