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To this end,withinanEUproject calledRiseWise 2,wework towardsenabling rel-
evant information throughadata-driven tool topromoteaccessibleand inclusive tourism
in a Smart City context. Our objective, with this work, is to help both policy authori-
ties and the tourist industry stakeholders to performearly assessments of inclusive and
accessible tourismongoing developments. Therefore, froma technical point of view, it
is purposed tooffer anoverviewof a future platformequippedwithdata-drivenmecha-
nisms to extract (fromheterogeneous data sources), store,manage andprocess data but
alsoenhancingwaysof interpreting rules to identifycritical information (ordescriptors)
relatedwith these specific data. The aim is to feed, with valid data and information, a
set of ad hoc algorithms to detect and forecast relevant tourism-related information by
havingaccess to structuredandunstructureddata fromheterogeneous sources.
In this short paper,we report our ongoingwork.The rest of the paper is structured
asfollows. In thefollowingsections,wepresentanoverviewof therelatedwork, thekey
challenges, and our solution approach. Finally, it is presented the conclusions and the
futurework.
2. Challenges
This RiseWise project focuses on the collective of women with disabilities from dif-
ferent perspectives, trying to identify needs and best practices in several EUcountries,
representing diverse cultural and socio-economic environments, for the integration and
improvement of their quality of life in several respects. By applying a novel analysis
method, based on the experience acquired by the exchange of researchers, innovation
staff and practitioners in the European area among the participating institutions, the
projectwill identify a set ofmulti-sectoral research lines, to enhance integrationand in-
volvement of this population in the society along several dimensions. So, in the context
of this project, thisworks aims to develop the first application of a platform aiming to
drivedecisionmaking for accessible and inclusive tourismbyusingopendata and rele-
vant information [1] [2] asawayof improvingsocial and leisureexperiences forpeople
withdisabilities. Inrecentyears, somesignificant technologicaladvances in the intersec-
tionofaccessibleandinclusive tourismwithInformationandCommunicationTechnolo-
gies have involved the challenge of transforming tourism-related data into an entirely
knowledge-based function.Theseprojects areencouragingexamples [3] [4] [5].
Therefore, thedevelopment of a solution that combinesdata anda semantic graph-
orientedknowledgebase to support adata-driven tool, somechallengesmustbe tackled
down. Inparticular, issues related todatacollectionand integrationandalso its analyses
andvisualization.
2.1. Data
The tourismindustry is an information-basedbusinessand is rightnowthrivingondata.
Since the advent of theWWW, significant parts of tourism information processes and
transactions are handled electronically. Thus, travelers leave different digital traces be-
hind on theWebwhen usingmobile technologies. Through every traveler, significant
amountsofdataareavailableaboutanything relevant toany travel stage:before,during,
2http://www.risewiseproject.eu/
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Intelligent Environments 2019
Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
- Title
- Intelligent Environments 2019
- Subtitle
- Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
- Authors
- Andrés Muñoz
- Sofia Ouhbi
- Wolfgang Minker
- Loubna Echabbi
- Miguel Navarro-Cía
- Publisher
- IOS Press BV
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- German
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-61499-983-6
- Size
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 416
- Category
- Tagungsbände