On accessing and customizing cultural heritage objects in Tiscover

Abstract

Web-based tourism information systems should not only provide access to various tourism products, but should also present accompanying destination information, comprising information on cultural heritage. The generic platform for Web-based destination information systems Tiscover tries to cope with this need. Tiscover supports three different access paradigms together with appropriate Web patterns, allowing to conveniently access not only tourism products, but also a huge amount of destination information. Furthermore, customization mechanisms are provided, allowing adaptation of destination information with respect to both structural aspects in terms of describing attributes and presentation aspects in terms of layout properties.