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A Semantic Web Service for Tourism Information over the Mobile Web

시맨틱 웹에 기초한 모바일 관광정보 서비스

  • Lee, Yang-Won (Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo)
  • Published : 2007.12.31
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Abstract

To better publish geographical information on the Web, it is important to capture how Web technologies are changing. For a recent decade, Semantic Web has been developed by incorporating ontologies into the current Web, with an aim to make computers understand rather than simply display. Ontology, an explicit specification of a conceptualization, and the Semantic Web grounded on the ontology, have the potential for effective sharing and appropriate retrieval of geographical information. This paper describes a Semantic Web Service over the mobile Web that can offer pertinent tourism information according to user contexts. To do this, a tourism ontology was formalized in the PARA(Place-Attraction-Resource-Activity) ontology model by organizing tourist places, tourist attractions, tourism resources, and activities. Locational relationships between tourist places were also included in the PARA ontology model to take into account the movements of tourists on a railway network. The XML(Extensible Markup Language) Web Service in the middle tier manages the client-side request for information retrieval and the corresponding server-side response from the data provider. The PARA ontology was integrated into the XML Web Service for the concept-based discovery of tourism information. The applicability of the proposed system was tested through a simulation experiment for Tokyo tourism.

웹 기술의 변화발전 동향을 파악하는 것은 지리정보의 웹 공유에 있어서 우선적으로 고려되어야 할 사항 중의 하나이다. 시맨틱 웹은 컴퓨터가 정보를 보여주는 것에 그치지 않고 정보를 이해하도록 하는 방법론 및 기술로서, 기존의 웹과 온톨로지의 결합을 통해 이루어진다. 개념화의 명시적인 사양이라고 정의되는 온톨로지와 이에 기반한 시맨틱 웹은 지리정보의 효과적인 공유와 검색을 위해 활용될 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 모바일 웹 상에서 사용자의 행동맥락에 부합되는 관광정보를 제공하기 위한 시맨틱 웹 서비스에 대해 논의한다. 이를 위해 관광지, 관광자원, 관광객의 활동 등이 체계적으로 개념화 및 조직화된 PARA(Place-Attraction-Resource-Activity) 온톨로지 모형을 구축하고, 관광객의 이동을 고려하기 위하여 관광지와 연결된 전철 네트웍을 이 모형에 결합시킨다. XML(Extensible Markup Language) 웹 서비스는 클라이언트의 요청과 이에 따른 서버의 응답을 중개하는 역할을 하는데, PARA 온톨로지 모형과 연동되는XML 웹 서비스를 통해 개념기반의 관광정보 발견이 가능하도록 한다. 이 연구에서 제안하는 시스템은 도쿄 관광정보의 검색 시뮬레이션을 통해 그 가용성이 테스트되었다.

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