Smart space based recommendation service for historical tourism

The amount of digital data about regional history is increasing rapidly. These data might be effectively used to promote regional historical and cultural tourism as well as to design special recommendation services for trip developers and individual tourists who are interested in regional history. We propose the technology for the creation of such a recommendation service on the basis of smart space approach. This approach employs multi-agent, event-oriented methods of service design with central information hub. Each of the agents exchanges information by means of subscribing and publication actions. An important feature of the smart space technology is the use of ontological formats to keep semantically described information and to infer new knowledge from it. This technology is scrutinized employing data on the history of Latgale. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.