Re: Extension proposal for TouristAttraction class

Nice,

But there are a few classes that seem to be outside the realm of a typical
TouristAttraction.  Like HairSalon ?  I have yet to visit any famous Hair
Salons.  I know some do exist, but I would consider them just a Famous
Place, or Attraction.  Not something you would see in a guidebook or Travel
agency magazine or itinerary.

It looks like this structure attempts to collect not just a typical
TouristAttraction that a vacationing person or family might be interested
in, but instead something more like classes that could be considered a
"Famous Place" ?

The word Tourist means someone traveling to a place for pleasure.  Some of
the listed classes would be marginally pleasurable for some people, but
certainly still retain a Famous indication.

So I would lean to renaming to something like FamousAttraction or
similar..or just Attraction.
Then again...anything Famous typically gets flocked by Tourists eventually.
:)


On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 10:35 AM Angelica Lo Duca <angelica.loduca@iit.cnr.it>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> one of my students, Elisabetta Triolo, is working on a proposal of a host
> extension for the TouristAttraction class of Schema.org.
> She studied the structure of some important tourism platforms such as
> TripAdvisor <https://www.tripadvisor.it/>, ParisInfo
> <http://www.parisinfo.com/>, Gogobot <https://www.gogobot.com/>, and she
> tried to define what a tourist attraction is, by reading information and
> publications such as the Wikipedia definition
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_attraction>, the Lorenzo Canova’s study
> of attractions
> <http://www00.unibg.it/dati/corsi/3091/12779-Il%20prodotto%20turistico.pdf>,
> Lucia Varra’s article
> <https://books.google.it/books?id=5tKk5ElLyhwC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=La+destinazione+turistica+come+prodotto++di+relazioni+operative+e+cognitive:+il+ruolo++dell%E2%80%99OTD+nel+governo+delle+relazioni++interorganizzative+e+nei+processi+di+sviluppo++del+territorio&source=bl&ots=HB-XpGTL75&sig=ASp7Os5xL0SrFZt2mLIAJpN8iJg&hl=it&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9q6mo15PPAhUEKsAKHZiGB_kQ6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&q&f=false>
> about tourist destination.
> The whole extension has been published here
> <http://tourism.sdo-touristattr-extension.appspot.com/TouristAttraction>.
> In addition, an owl version of the extension is available here
> <https://github.com/alod83/tourpedia-attraction/blob/master/ontology/schemaorgTouristAttraction.owl>
> and it’s possible to find an explanation of the project here
> <https://github.com/alod83/schemaorg_tourist_attraction/wiki>.
>
> It’s important for us to have feedback from the community, in order to
> improve the structure of the class and its subclasses, and, hopefully, add
> this as an host extension of the Schema.org project.
> Thanks in advance for your attention,
> Angelica
>
> Angelica Lo Duca, PhD
> Web Applications for the Future Internet Lab.
> Institute of Informatics and Telematics
> National Research Council
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