In our architecture, the use
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of semantics and ontologies to construct a global view will make the integration
process automatic, and there will be no requirement for a human integrator.
Tourism.Data.Source.Integration
The technologies and infrastructures supporting the travel industry are complex
and heterogeneous. The vision of a comprehensive solution to interconnect many
applications and data sources based entirely on standards, such as the one provided
by OTA (2004), that are universally supported on every computing platform, is not
achieved in practice and far from reality.
Data integration is a challenge for dynamic packaging applications since they need
to query across multiple heterogeneous, autonomous, and distributed (HAD) tourism
data sources produced independently by multiple organizations in the travel industry.
Integrating HAD data sources involves combining the concepts and knowledge in
the individual tourism data sources into an integrated view of the data.
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