An Approach Using Linked Data for Open Tourist Data Exploration of Thua Thien Hue Province

In five domains of Digital Transformation, data plays an important role as a key tangible asset for value-creation. Nowadays, data is continuously generated everywhere, even the unstructured data is increasingly becoming usable and valuable. The challenge of data is turning it into valuable information and unleash its potentials for Digital Transformation. Motivated by Open Data initiatives in over the world which took the lead for publishing government data for public use, Thua Thien Hue Open Data Initiative (TTHODI) (Thua Thien Hue Open Data Portal: http://​opendata.​thuathienhue.​gov.​vn/​) took first steps in public its local government data to create data-driven benefits of community and enterprise in the region. On this trend, Linked Data is naturally coming at the right time for us as an ideal standard for representing our open datasets thanks to its expressiveness in form of triples. Furthermore, with huge potentials for linking our open datasets to existing datasets in Linked Open Data Cloud for enriching our data cloud for an added value to TTHODI. This paper presents our approach using Linked Data for Tourist Open Data as a case study and also shows the first results of using Linked Open Data for TTHODI in Tourism.