Unit:
Department of Informatics and TelecommunicationsΠληροφορική
Supervisors info:
Μανόλης Κουμπαράκης, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πληροφορικής και Τηλεπικοινωνιών, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Γιώργος Σταμούλης, Υποψήφιος Διδάκτωρ, Τμήμα Πληροφορικής και Τηλεπικοινωνιών, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Original Title:
CultureSpot: an Android Application for navigation to Cultural Interest Areas, using Linked Open Data
Translated title:
CultureSpot: an Android Application for navigation to Cultural Interest Areas, using Linked Open Data
Summary:
Linked Data is structured data which is interlinked with other data so we can acquire useful information through queries. With the use of the Android UI, this information can be easily accessible and shown to the user. The purpose of this thesis is to showcase the power of linked open data in building smartphone applications. Our application CultureSpot, brings together information about cultural areas from OpenStreetmap and DBpedia, and uses semantic web technologies to interlink and query these data sources.
CultureSpot was designed to assist tourists in navigating a city searching for areas of cultural interest which they would like to visit. Our goal was to develop a user-friendly application that requires no technological expertise and could be easily used by anyone who wanted assistance in finding her favourite cultural areas in a city. Through the interlinking of information for these cultural spots with resources from DBpedia, users can also learn more information for their selected cities without the need to use different applications or visit other web resources.
Main subject category:
Technology - Computer science
Keywords:
linked data, Android, firebase, google maps, GraphDB database
