Designing an Ontology to Describe Ecological Cycling Routes within the Province of Tungurahua

Cristina Páez Quinde (1), Efrén R. Narváez Peña (2), Margarita Narváez Ríos (3), Fernanda Viteri Toro (4), Francisco Torres Oñate (5), Ruth Infante Paredes (6)
(1) Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador, Ecuador,
(2) Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador, Ecuador,
(3) Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador, Ecuador,
(4) Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador, Ecuador,
(5) Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador, Ecuador,
(6) Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador, Ecuador
https://doi.org/10.21625/archive.v2i2.250

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Vol. 2 Issue 2 (2018): Proceedings of the international conference: Cultural Sustainable Tourism
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    Ontology, Tourism, Tourism routes, RDF, RDFS, OWL.
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Abstract

Tourism, a significant industry worldwide, has allowed for economic, social, and cultural development in rural areas because of all the advantages it offers to tourists. Ecuador is a country that presents a wide range of alternatives in the tourist field allowing a massive tourist influx to many of its destinations such as indigenous communities, natural reserves, and tourist, ecological, and volcanic routes. Most importantly, Ecuador encourages the conservation of the diversity resulting from such influx. The objective of this research is to design an ontology which facilitates a description of the bicycle tourist routes in the province of Tungurahua, and specifically in the city of Ambato. Apart from route descriptions, this ontology gives information about the flora and fauna and places of interest such as inns, hotels, and restaurants that can be found along this route. This ontology was developed based on the application and enforcement of semantic web technologies. That being said, all the described information is attached to an RDF vocabulary and it can be accessed using SPARQL. Therefore, information that is semantically described in an organized and standardized manner is available in order to allow for interoperability with other existing data sources. As for the development of the ontology, the methodology used was an open code software known as “protégé”. The OWL (Ontology Web Language) was also used as marked language and RDFS for the description of the employed vocabulary.

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Authors

Cristina Páez Quinde
Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador
[email protected] (Primary Contact)
Efrén R. Narváez Peña
Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador
Margarita Narváez Ríos
Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador
Fernanda Viteri Toro
Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador
Francisco Torres Oñate
Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador
Ruth Infante Paredes
Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador
Author Biographies

Cristina Páez Quinde, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador

Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato

Efrén R. Narváez Peña, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador

Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja – Ecuador

Margarita Narváez Ríos, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador

Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato

Fernanda Viteri Toro, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador

Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato

Francisco Torres Oñate, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador

Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato

Ruth Infante Paredes, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador

Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato

Quinde, C. P., Peña, E. R. N., Narváez Ríos, M., Viteri Toro, F., Oñate, F. T., & Paredes, R. I. (2018). Designing an Ontology to Describe Ecological Cycling Routes within the Province of Tungurahua. The Academic Research Community Publication, 2(2), 7. https://doi.org/10.21625/archive.v2i2.250
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