Title: Knowledge management and reuse in tourism destination observatories

Authors: Cristina Martelli; Emanuele Bellini; Maria Flora Salvatori

Addresses: Statistics Informatics Applications, Department of "G. Parenti", University of Florence, Viale Morgagni, 59 – 50134 Florence, Italy ' Statistics Informatics Applications, Department of "G. Parenti", University of Florence, Viale Morgagni, 59 – 50134 Florence, Italy ' Statistics Informatics Applications, Department of "G. Parenti", University of Florence, Viale Morgagni, 59 – 50134 Florence, Italy

Abstract: Tourism destination observatories represent an important tool for institutional governance. The multiplicity of socio-economical implications of tourism require statistical information system based on knowledge to support political decisions and social dialogue is in the main institutional agendas. This paper wants to address the problem of harmonising the different stakeholders languages and concepts presenting a knowledge base statistical information system and a solution to publish the semantic information on linked open data in the perspective of a shared information system acknowledged by all system actors.

Keywords: statistical information systems; collaborative approach; tourism information systems; thesaurus; linked data; open data; semantic information; knowledge management; knowledge reuse; tourism destination observatories; tourism destinations; institutional governance; information sharing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2015.071042

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2015 Vol.10 No.1, pp.1 - 15

Received: 13 Jun 2013
Accepted: 16 Jun 2014
Published online: 09 Aug 2015 *

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