Engineering a Comprehensive Romanian Tourism Ontology

Abstract

This paper presents a large domain ontology for the Romanian tourism. The ontology was developed in the KRSS syntax in a modular way. After introducing the core ontology, we detail various models that encapsulate knowledge on: accommodation types and their facilities, touristic activities, points of interest or eating and drinking resorts. For populating the ontology various sources were used: Foursquare, Open Street Map or the Open Linked Data for Romania. The ontology was validated against a set of competency questions formalized in nRQL.es arranged alphabetically and separated by commas.