Dynamic Generation of Cultural Routes in a Tourist Guide

Abstract

Due to its unique geographical location, for thousands of years the region of Bulgaria used to be a crossroads for many nationalities. The enormous Bulgarian cultural and historical heritage is little known outside the country and modern information and communication technologies have not been used in their full potential to promote and advertise it. In this paper, a personal tourist guide is presented, which is able to generate cultural routes. The routes can be virtual or real depending on preferences or location of the user. The architecture of the guide consists of several intelligent agents that work with ontology network and ambient network as a knowledge base, to generate the tourist routs. Ontologies present the cultural and historical objects of Bulgaria according the CCO standard, and ambient present the physical properties (location, working time etc.) of these objects. Furthermore, the dynamic generation of routes is demonstrated by modeling ambient-oriented approach.

Virtualization, Processing, and Standardization of Knowledge about Bulgarian Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage for Use in School Education

“…Our team from DeLC Laboratory of Plovdiv University develop a network of ontologies, which we have called CHH-OntoNet (Cultural and Historical Heritage-Ontology Network), as a knowledge base for cultural and historical sites in Bulgaria. Through CHH-OntoNet, the modeled tourist guide (Stoyanova-Doycheva, et al, 2020) generates virtual or real tourist routes according to the set criteria of the tourist. The ontologies have been developed by the Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) standard, which contributes to the easy and convenient dissemination and sharing of data between different organizations and institutions.…”

Development of an Ontology in the Field of the Humanities

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The preservation and dissemination of knowledge about cultural, historical, and natural sites in Bulgaria is extremely important. In this regard, the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Plovdiv University is developing a project related to the implementation of an intelligent tourist guide (Stoyanova-Doycheva et al, 2020a), which, according to the tourist's criteria, generates virtual or real tourist routes. The article will present part of the knowledge base of the tourist guide, namely an ontology that describes the richness of Bulgarian literature.

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