Harmonise tackles the interoperability problem in the tourism domain, where organisations following different standards should be enabled to exchange information in a seamless manner. The project puts a strong emphasis on the combination of a social consensus process with the application of new technologies. Carefully analysing and observing the requirements of the tourist domain and its current state of the art, a comprehensive methodology has been elaborated to achieve the desired harmonisation effect. Harmonise combines suitable tools into a platform supporting an ontology-based mediation process. In this paper we describe three fundamentals of the harmonisation effort: interoperability, ontologies and mediators. And we draw a vision of a future electronic tourism market based on these fundamentals
Harmonise - Towards Interoperability in the Tourism Domain
Werthner, Hannes;Dell'Erba, Mirella;Fodor, Oliver;
2003-01-01
Abstract
Harmonise tackles the interoperability problem in the tourism domain, where organisations following different standards should be enabled to exchange information in a seamless manner. The project puts a strong emphasis on the combination of a social consensus process with the application of new technologies. Carefully analysing and observing the requirements of the tourist domain and its current state of the art, a comprehensive methodology has been elaborated to achieve the desired harmonisation effect. Harmonise combines suitable tools into a platform supporting an ontology-based mediation process. In this paper we describe three fundamentals of the harmonisation effort: interoperability, ontologies and mediators. And we draw a vision of a future electronic tourism market based on these fundamentalsI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
