STATUS QUO
Current Project Status
The Open Data & Knowledge Graph project strengthens the data-based infrastructure of German tourism. The aim is to provide standardized, interoperable and openly usable tourism content.
The project is jointly supported by the German National Tourist Board (GNTB), the state tourism organizations (LTO) and the Magic Cities. The technical basis is the Germany Knowledge Graph as a central open data hub. It bundles tourism data, links it semantically and makes it available in a structured form for partners, platforms and digital applications.
The following timeline shows the current developments and milestones since the start of the project in 2018.
Project History
July 2019
Audit
Analysis of the current status of data types, content types and technical systems used by GNTB, LMOs and Magic Cities.
Goal: Investigation and evaluation with regard to their usability in a graph database.
Result: Definition of the process steps for the introduction of an open data structure
December 2018
Launch of the Open Data project
Decision of the GNTB to make its data available as Linked Open Data together with the marketing organizations of the federal states (LMO) and the Magic Cities.
Goal: Coordination between GNTB, LMO and Magic Cities for joint approach.
Result: Start of joint work on tasks of the Open Data project.
November 2018
Foundation of DACH-KG
Naming of the working group as DACH-KG (DACH = German-speaking area; KG = Knowledge Graph). Working group of public tourism organizations and research institutions, at the invitation of Tourismuszukunft.
Goal: Creation of a tourism knowledge graph for all tourism-relevant data in German-speaking countries. In addition, further development of tourism standards for the description of data based on schema.org
Result: Raising awareness and generating attention for the topic of Linked Open Data. Building trust between stakeholders. Implementation of initial extensions to the Schema.org vocabulary
July 2018
First meeting on Linked Open Data in tourism
First meeting of DMO, LMO and research institutions in Innsbruck with the title “Linked Open Data in Tourism”.
Goal: Discussion of the possibilities and necessities for a common tourism knowledge graph.
Result: Desire to collaborate on the topic of Linked Open Data.
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