EXPLOITING SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES FOR HARMONIZING E-MARKETS
information Technolgies and Tourism, (2005)Abstract
A main obstacle to e-commerce is the well-known “interoperability
problem.” Different players
have different views of the world, even in the same application field.
This is particularly true in
the travel and tourism e-market where IT has been applied for a long
time, leading to a plethora
of different information systems, each with its own data model and
structure. In this article we
describe the approach followed in “HARMO-TEN,” a European project
aimed at solve the data
heterogeneity problem by setting up a “virtual interoperable network”
and providing the partici-
pants with a technological infrastructure based on a shared ontology.
This will allow exchanging
information in a seamless way while keeping existing data models unchanged.
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