Personal travel portal project group
Personal travel portal project group
From today's perspective, the World Wide Web presents itself as a very heterogeneous structure for developers and users. In 1998, a group of experts drew up the so-called "Asilomar Report on Database Research", which set the following 10-year target:
The Information Utility: Make it easy for everyone to store, access, and analyse the majority of human information online.
In this context, the project group is to focus primarily on the aspects of "easy", "everyone", "access" and "information online" and is divided into two main task areas.
On the one hand, a simple possibility is to be created to integrate various sources of information on the Internet under a common interface. However, integration should not be limited to the visual level, but should also take place on a semantic level, i.e. it must be possible to interact with the various sources.
On the other hand, the information should be "personalised" for the user by means of user profiles in order to avoid "information overload" for the individual. The spectrum of personalisation options ranges from query modification and personal start pages to recommender systems.
As a concrete example, a "personalised travel portal" is to be developed in which various predefined data sources are integrated and combined enquiries are possible. The start page of the portal should be personalised and offer travel information directly relevant to the user through automatically generated queries, whereby both the user's own rating and the ratings of third parties with similar preferences should be used.
The following aspects need to be addressed in detail:
- Integration of different data sources
- Description of the data sources
- Wrapper creation
- Integration of the data, enquiry processing
- personalisation
- Profile processing and storage
- Recommender functionality
- Enquiry generation
- Visualisation (integrated and personal)