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HOTEL
RECEPTION
- walk-in customer
- telephone
- email
- fax
- hotel website
- review sites
- booking sites
- social network sites
The Hotelier of today has to deal with many different communication channels:
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HOTEL
RECEPTION
- walk-in customer
- telephone
- email
- fax
- hotel website
- review sites
- booking sites
- social network sites
- blogs
The Hotelier of today has to deal with many different communication channels:
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HOTEL
RECEPTION
- walk-in customer
- telephone
- email
- fax
- hotel website
- review sites
- booking sites
- social network sites
- blogs
- fora & destination sites
The Hotelier of today has to deal with many different communication channels:
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The Crazy Hotelier
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HOTEL
RECEPTION
- walk-in customer
- telephone
- email
- fax
- hotel website
- review sites
- booking sites
- social network sites
- blogs
- fora & destination sites
- chat
The Hotelier of today has to deal with many different communication channels:
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HOTEL
RECEPTION
- walk-in customer
- telephone
- email
- fax
- hotel website
- review sites
- booking sites
- social network sites
- blogs
- fora & destination sites
- chat
- video & photo sharing
The Hotelier of today has to deal with many different communication channels:
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Dissemination
• Dissemination refers to the process of broadcasting a
message to the public without direct feedback from the
audience
• Takes the traditional view of communication which
involves a sender and a receiver.
• The message carrier sends out information to many in a
broadcasting system (composed of more than one
channels)
• “In telecommunications and computer networking, a
communication channel, or channel, refers either to a
physical transmission medium such as a wire, or to a
logical connection over a multiplexed medium such as a
radio channel.” (Wikipedia)
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Dissemination
Classification of channels by the type of service they provide:
–Static Broadcasting
–Dynamic Broadcasting
–Sharing
–Collaboration
–Social Networks
–Internet Forum and Discussion Boards
–On-line Group Communication
–Semantic-based Communication
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Static Broadcasting
• Prehistoric methods of dissemination: cave drawings, stories of triumphs on
columns and arches, history on pyramids, stones with messages
• More modern means: printed press, newspapers, journals
• Online static dissemination: homepage …. And various web sites
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Dynamic Communication
Small piece of content that is dependent
on constraints such as time or location.
Examples of tools (organized considering first
the length of message and second – the level of
interactivity)
• News Feeds (f.e., RSS)
• Newsletters
• Email / Email lists
• Microblogs (twitter, tumblr, …)
• Blogs
• Social networks
• Chat and instant messaging applications
(skype, messenger, …)
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Sharing
• There are a large number of Web 2.0 websites that support the sharing of information
items such as: bookmarks, images, slides, and videos, etc.
• Provided by hosting services (images, videos, slides are stored on a server)
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Sharing
• Can use specialized applications (see below) of features of other platforms and
services (e.g. share photos through Facebook)
• Examples:
– Flickr, Pinterest – means of exchanging photos, visible to all users (no account necessary),
allows users to post comments;
– Slideshare – channel for storing and exchanging presentations;
– YouTube and VideoLectures – sharing videos, all users can see the posted videos and leave
comments on the websites
– Social Bookmark sites: e.g. delicious, digg, StumbleUpon
– Social News websites: e.g. reddit
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Dissemination through Collaboration
Wiki
• “Wiki” = Hawaiian word for “fast” of “quick”.
• Described by the developer of the first wiki software, Ward Cunningham, as the
“simplest online database that could possibly work”*.
• Websites whose users can add, modify or delete content via a web browser using
simplified markup language or a rich-text editor.
• Most of the content is created collaboratively.
• Promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making link
creation intuitively easy and showing whether an intended page exists or not.
• It seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and
collaboration that constantly changes the Web site landscape
• Often used for internal collaboration, however, when public also
an indirect means for dissemination.
*http://www.wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
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Social Networks
• Provide a community aspect, i.e. forms a community that shares information in a
multi-directional way
• Common features (regardless of platform):
– construct a public/semi-public profile;
– articulate list of other users that they share a connection with;
– view the list of connections within the system
• Some sites allow users to upload pictures, add multimedia content or modify the look
and feel of the profile
• Social networks typically offer more than one channel of dissemination (thus they will
be considered platforms with many available dissemination channels):
– Facebook: Pages, Groups, Share options
– LinkedIn and Xing are focused on professional use and fit the purpose of organizations
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Internet Forums and Discussion Boards
• Web applications managing user-generated content
• Early forums can be described as a web version of an email list or newsgroup
• Internet forums are prevalent in several countries: Japan, China
• Are governed by a set of rules
• Users have a specific designated role, e.g. moderator, administrator
• Common features
– Tripcodes and capcodes - a secret password is added to the user's name following a
separator character
– Private message
– Attachment
– BBCode and HTML
– Emoticon or smiley to convey emotion
– RSS and ATOM feeds
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Group Communication
• Many-to-many
• Threaded conversations
• Usually created on a particular topic
• Have different access levels
• Better for disseminating within a group that shares common interests as the purpose
of the services is to enable collaboration, information sharing and discussions
• Exampled: Google Groups, Facebook Groups, Yahoo! Groups, LinkedIn Groups,
Xing Groups.
• Similar in many ways to Discussion boards and Internet Forums
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Semantic Based Dissemination
Rich Snippets
• Snippets—the few lines of text that appear under every search result—are designed
to give users a sense for what’s on the page and why it’s relevant to their query.
• If Google understands the content on your pages, it can create rich snippets—
detailed information intended to help users with specific queries.
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Semantic Based Dissemination
• Format is an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or
service.
– The most known examples are RDF and OWL.
• A (Semantic Web) vocabulary can be considered as a special form of (usually light-
weight) ontology, or sometimes also merely as a collection of URIs with an (usually
informally) described meaning*.
– URI = uniform resource identifier
– Semantic vocabularies include: FOAF, Dublin Core, Good Relations, etc.
• Implementation realization of an application, plan, idea, model, or design.
– OWLIM - a family of semantic repositories, or RDF database management system
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* http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Ontology
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• A (Semantic Web) vocabulary can be considered a special form of (usually light-
weight) ontology, or sometimes also merely as a collection of URIs with a (usually
informally) described meaning.
• For us these vocabularies are channels (roughly a vocabulary corresponds to a
platform and a term to a channel).
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What is Social Media Monitoring?
Definition*
Social Media Monitoring is the continuous systematic observation and
analysis of social media networks and social communities. It supports a
quick overview and insight into topics and opinions on the social web.
*http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Media#Monitoring
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Social Media Monitoring
• Social Media Monitoring tools facilitate the listening of what people say
about various topics in the social media sphere (blogs, twitter, Facebook,
etc.)
Listening: is active, focused, concentrated attention for the purpose of
understanding the meanings expressed by a speaker.
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Social Media Monitoring
What are Social Media Monitoring Tools?
• Harness the wealth of information available online in the form of user-
generated content
• These tools offer means for listening to the social media users, analyzing
and measuring their activity in relation to a brand or enterprise
• Offer access to real customers opinions, complaints and questions, at real
time, in a highly scalable way
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Social Media Monitoring
Channels to analyze
The
Conversation
SOCIAL NETWORKS
WIKIS
PHOTO SHARING
BLOGS MAINSTREAM MEDIA
MICROBLOGS
FORUMS/NEWSGROUPS
VIDEO SHARING
SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS
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Channels to analyze
1. Social networks, e.g.:
• Facebook (Q1 2012):
– 526 million daily active users
– 3.2 billion Likes and Comments per
day
– 500K comments per minute
– 700K status updates per minute
– 80K wall posts per minute
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• Twitter:
– 200 million Tweets per day (2011)
– 200K Tweets per minute
• LinkedIn: 147 million users
• Google+: 170 million users
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2. Sharing networks, e.g.:
• YouTube:
– 4 billion videos are viewed a day
– 100 million people take a social action on YouTube every week (likes, shares,
comments, etc)
• Flickr: >6.500 new photos per minute
• Pinterest:
– 13 million users
– American users spend an average of 97.8 minutes
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3. Email lists
• 2172 million Email users
• 3375 million Active email
accounts
• 2.8 million emails per second
• 90 trillion emails per year
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4. Group Communication and
Message Boards (e.g. Google
Groups, Yahoo! Groups, Facebook
Groups, etc.)
• Forums: 2K posts per minute
• Yahoo! Groups:
– 9 million groups
– 113 million users
– 933 thousand unique visitors daily
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5. News feeds
• Total Feeds*: 694,311
• Atom Feeds*: 86,496
• RSS feeds*: 438,102 (63% of
the total)
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6. Blogs:
• >95 million blogs available online
• 22K posts per minute
• Tumblr (Q2 2012):
– 55.9 Million blogs
– 23.3 Billion posts
– 20K posts per minute
• WordPress (Q2 2012)
– 73.724.911 WordPress sites
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7. Traditional mediums:
• TV:
– 365 TV channels licensed in Germany
• Radio:
– 822 Radio stations in Germany
• Print mediums (newspapers, magazines)
– 382 Daily newspapers in Germany
– 4180 Weekly magazines in Germany
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What is Semantic Analysis?
• Discovering facts in texts and other sources (audio, video, etc.)
• Deriving additional facts from them
• Somewhere in the Web the text fragment “Dieter is married to Anna” occurs
(extracted statement)
• Named Entity Recognition tells us that Dieter is a (German) male given name, and
Anna is a female given name (enriched with background knowledge)
• We can infer that Dieter and Anna are persons and
– Dieter is male
– Anna is female
– Dieter is married to Anna
– Anna is married to Dieter
– What with “Anna-Marie is married with Dieter”?
(derive new facts)
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Semantic Analysis
– Topic detection
– Named entity recognition
– Co-reference and Disambiguation
– Relation Extraction
– Sentiment detection and Opinion mining
– Social annotation
– Text summarization
• Obviously all of them are needed in Social Media Analysis
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• Not to be interpreted by humans, but machines that can make something
out of it:
• Publishing Linked Data can take various formats and vocabularies
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Format
e.g. RDFa
Implementation
e.g. OWLIM
Vocabulary
e.g. foaf
HTML
Meta
Element
s
1999
RDFs
1998
RDF
2004
RDFa
2005
Microformats
2007
OWL
2008
SPARQL
2009
OWL 2
2010
RIF
2011
Microdata
... and a lot more
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Separating Symbol and Knowledge Level
Analogy 1 (for senior people in the audience)
“I am about to propose the existence of something called the knowledge level,
within which knowledge is to be defined.” [Newell, 1982]
• Knowledge is intimately linked with
rationality. Systems of which
rationality can be posited can be
said to have knowledge.
• At the knowledge level, knowledge
is described functionally in terms
of goals and rationality.
• At the symbol level, knowledge is described operational in terms of
achieving the goals through a certain sequence of activities.
• Obviously, there are various ways to encode knowledge at the symbol level.
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Separating Content and Rendering
• Analogy 2 for juniors in the audience :
– Content may be presented differently in different contexts.
– Therefore, it should be modeled independent from a specific representation
– Stylesheets connect content with a specific presentation
• Content:
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<html><head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/tryit.css" /></head>
<body>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<img src="http://www.fensel.com/dieter.jpg" itemprop="image" />
<span id="property">Title: <span itemprop="jobTitle">Prof. Dr.</span></span>
<span id="property">Name: <span itemprop="name">Dieter Fensel</span></span>
<span id="property">Nationality: <span itemprop="nationality">German</span></span>
<span id="property">Birthdate: <span itemprop="birthdate">October 1960</span></span>
<span id="property">Address: <span itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
<span itemprop="streetAddress">Technikerstr. 21a</span>,
<span itemprop="postalCode">6020</span>
<span itemprop="addressLocality">Innsbruck</span>,
<span itemprop="addressRegion">Tirol</span>
</span></span>
<span id="property">Tel.: <span itemprop="telephone">+43 512 507 6485</span></span>
<span id="property">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:dieter.fensel@sti2.at" itemprop="email">dieter.fensel@sti2.at</a></span>
<span id="property">WWW: <a href="http://www.fensel.com/" itemprop="url">http://www.fensel.com/</a></span>
</div></body><html>
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Use a weaver to align content and channels
Weaver
Branch specific Ontology
Collect feedback
+
statistics
Web 3.0/Mobile/OtherWeb/Blog
Distribute content
Social Web
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Semantic Channel Modelling
• The number of digital publishing channels has increased exponentially in
the past decade.
• Using semantics (i.e., an Ontology) to describe these channels.
• Automatic review and adjustment of content and dissemination to channels
based on semantic match-making.
• Content-Channel mapping becomes an instance of Ontology alignment.
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Reference architecture
• SCEI is a reference architecture.
• A reference software architecture is a software architecture where the
structures and respective elements and relations provide templates for
concrete architectures in a particular domain.
• A reference architecture consists of a list of functions and some
indication of their interfaces (or APIs) and interactions with each other
and with functions located outside of the scope of the reference
architecture.
• SCEI provides a semantic engagement engine applicable to various
domains and tasks.
• Core of its efficiently and flexibility is its separation of concern.
• And the proper separation and alignment of form and substance.
• In total, SCEI is based on three different types of functionalities.
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SCEI *sky
• Infrastructure
– The infrastructure layer provides basic functionalities needed by the other
functionalities.
– The infrastructure layer is responsible for separating and multiple alignments of
communication content and communication channels.
• Communication
– The communication layer used the basic functionality of the infrastructure layer to
implement the on-line communication of an agent.
– It combines these elements into useful patterns of on-line interactions.
– It supports exchange of meaning.
• Engagement
– turns communication into cooperation.
– Workflow
– Crow sourcing
– Value generation through on-line cooperation.
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Customization of the Architecture
• To derive concrete products and services from the reference
architecture it must be instantiated for Application types (Tasks) and
Domains.
• Task customization:
– Advertisement
– Customer Relationship Management
– Revenue management
– Brand management
– Reputation management
– Quality management
• Domain Customization: E.g., eTourisms.
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Infrastructure
• Content can be down-/and uploaded from GUIs,
Repositories, CMSs, and others
• Channels are the millions of on-line communication
possibilities
Infrastructure
Content
Channels
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Infrastructure – Weaver
• Separating content from channels also requires the explicit alignment of
both.
• This is achieved through a weaver.
• A weaver is
– an uni-set of tuples describing bi-directional content-channel mappings,
– an execution engine for these tuples,
– a GUI to define these tuples, and
– a management and monitoring component for these tuple sets.
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Communication
• Meaningful communication requires often more than just a single and
isolated act of exchanging information.
– It can be active or reactive (Dissemination, Social Media Monitoring, and its
integration)
– It has a trace, a history
– It needs multi-channel switch
– It is bi-directional and multi-agent
– It is based on patterns of successful interaction styles (campaigning versus individual
interaction, etc.)
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Dissemination and Social Media Monitoring
• Dissemination (from the Latin
dissēminātus = “sowing seeds”,
“scatter wildly in every direction”)
refers to the process of broadcasting a
message to the public without direct
feedback from the audience.
• Takes on the view of the traditional
view of communication which involves
a sender and a receiver.
• The message carrier sends out
information to many in a broadcasting
system (composed of more than one
channels).
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The
Conversation
SOCIAL NETWORKS
WIKIS
PHOTO SHARING
BLOGS
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
MICROBLOGS
FORUMS/NEWSGROUPS
VIDEO SHARING
SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS
AGGREGATORS
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Communication - Trace
Tracing a conversation is crucial for
making communication effective and
efficient, and is therefore required for
• Communication has a history
• The communication history IS the
trace
• Communication must be
remembered otherwise it is
meaningless
Multi-Channel
Publishing
Social Media
Monitoring
Communication
• Active and reactive
communication
• Tracing the communication
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Communication - Multi-Channel Switch
(Online) Communication is scattered
over multiple, often very different
channels.
• Agents are challenged to
disseminate information over all
appropriate channels.
• Activities of all channels the
agent is active in must be
monitored.
• Impact, Feedback and
Responses need to be collected
from all channels.
• E.g., switch from a public tweet
to a private email response.
Multi-Channel
Publishing
Social Media
Monitoring
Communication
• Active and reactive
communication
• Tracing the communication
• Multi-channel switch
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Communication - Multi-Agent
• Communication requires at least
two agents: a speaker and a
listener.
• However, communication does
not occur in a void – thus the
initial model may never occur in
real life as there may always be
more than one listener or more
than one agent.
• Agents may receive responses
from multiple listeners that may
also listen and start to interact
with each other.
Multi-Channel
Publishing
Social Media
Monitoring
Communication
• Active and reactive communication
• Tracing the communication
• Multi-channel switch
• Multi-agent
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Communication Patterns
• In software engineering, a design
pattern is a general reusable
solution to a commonly
occurring problem within a
given context in software design.
• It is a description or template
for how to solve a problem that
can be used in many different
situations.
• So patterns are formalized best
practices that you must
implement yourself in your
application.
Multi-Channel
Publishing
Social Media
Monitoring
Communication
• Active and reactive communication
• Tracing the communication
• Multi-channel switch
• Multi-agent
• Patterns
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• Based on this definition of Software design patterns we introduce at this
point the idea of the communication patterns.
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Communication Patterns
• The communication patterns could be a way to facilitate the response
phase of an enterprise.
• A rich set of communication paradigms that address different types of
issues by describing workflows of interaction with customers or
potential customers.
• It should be a dynamic set of patterns in the sense that it is being
extended and altered continuously according to the needs of the
customers and the nature of the issues that are arising.
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Engagement
Workflow management
What is Workflow management?
• A workflow consists of a sequence of concatenated (connected) steps*.
• Workflow management refers to the process of assigning, tracking and
responding to social media streams, usually in a team environment in
order to prevent double responses and missed opportunities. It is crucial
for an enterprise tool to promote team productivity through collaboration.
• Example: Bad review
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workflow
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Engagement - Crowdsourcing
What is Crowdsourcing?
• Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a
designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an
undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.
• The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.
Howe (2008, 2009)
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Engagement - Crowdsourcing
Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a market in which anyone can post tasks to be
completed and specify prices paid for completing them.
• The inspiration of the system was to have users complete simple tasks that
would otherwise be extremely difficult (if not impossible) for computers to
perform.
• A number of businesses use Mechanical Turk to source thousands of micro-
tasks that require human intelligence, for example to identify objects in
images, find relevant information, or to do natural language processing.
• Mechanical Turk has more than 500,000 people in its workforce. Their
median wage is about $1.40 an hour.*
• Example: Turn a text into a tweet.
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Engagement
Value-Chain generation
“A value chain is a chain of activities for a firm operating in a specific industry.
The business unit is the appropriate level for construction of a value chain, not
the divisional level or corporate level. Products pass through all activities of
the chain in order, and at each activity the product gains some value. The
chain of activities gives the products more added value than the sum of the
independent activities' values.”
Wikipedia
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Engagement
Value-Chain generation
• The value chain generation lays on top of the other layers (i.e. workflow
management, crowdsourcing and communication patterns) and reflects the
aim of the enterprise to monetize their activities through these layers.
• The ultimate target for keeping the customers happy and engaged to the
brand is to increase the revenue. Thus, it is important to have a layer on top
of the communication that transforms long-term relationships into economic
transactions and new opportunities for the enterprise.
• For example, for a hotelier this layer could be the bookability of his services.
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SCEI - Summary
Infrastructure
Engagement
Workflow management
Crowdsourcing
Value-chain generation
Multi-Channel Publishing Social Media
Monitoring
Communication
• Active and reactive
communication
• Tracing the communication
• Multi-channel switch
• Multi-agent
• Pattern
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• Total overnight stays 126 Mio (42,7 Mio in Tyrol)
• Travel intensity per inhabitant (number of overnight stays divided by the
resident population): Total 16 (63 in Tyrol)
• Direct employment in tourism: Total 307.000
• Direct spendings of foreign and resident visitors: 30.586.000.000 €
• Direct percentage of overall GDP through tourism: 7.4%
Facts and Figures on Tourism in Austria and Tyrol
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Multi-channel booking problem
• Hotels are facing the multi-channel booking problem
• More than 100 different booking channels available
• Daily maintenance of right balance of rooms availability
across more than 100 channels does not scale
• Average time for hoteliers required to maintain a profile of a
medium size hotel at one portal takes between 5 to 15
minutes a day
• An effort of maintaining hotel’s profile on 100 portals would
require then at least 20 hours of work
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• Automatic support for online booking on multiple channels
• One single entry point providing direct connections to
different booking platforms
• Simple, Web-based user interface for management of
bookings
seekda connect
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Direct bookability for hotels
• Booking quickly and directly via hotel Web sites
• Seekda producs for direct bookability:
– Dynamic Shop
– Dynamic Shop Mobile
• Benfits:
– Hotels do not give part of their profit to booking chanells
– Guests spend less time in booking using the instant booking engine solution of
seekda
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Direct bookability for hotels - challenges
• Does the customer find the hotel web site?
• Does the customer trust the web site?
• Are his/her requests properly answered?
• Is his/her feedback taken serious and form a positive review of the hotel?
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Multi Channel Communication and Yield
Management
• Multi-channel communication tools can improve revenues and benefits
within the hospitality industry by:
– Increasing the on-line visible presence of hotels
– Make hotels offers visible to a broader audience via multiple channels
– Attract potential guests to hotel websites and thus increase direct bookability
– effective and targeted on-line marketing
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Touristic Portal
• Multi-channel communication (SCEI *sky)
• seekda booking engine
• Linked Open Data (LOD)
• On the fly service integration as you pay
• Everything integrated into a comprehensive map
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Multi-channel communication
- walk-in customer
- telephone
- email
- fax
- hotel website
- review sites
- booking sites
- social network sites
- blogs
- fora & destination sites
- chat
- video & photo sharing
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seekda booking engine - direct bookability for
hotels
• Booking quickly and directly via
hotel Web sites
• Seekda producs for direct
bookability:
– Dynamic Shop
– Dynamic Shop Mobile
• Benfits:
– Hotels do not give part of their
profit to booking chanells
– You do not loose the guest
having him booking other hotels
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Linked Open Data (LOD)
Figure from http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lodcloud/state/, September 2011
Facts:
• 295 data sets
• Over 31 billion triples
• Over 504 billion RDF links between data
sources
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Linked Open Data (LOD)
• Use LOD to integrate and lookup data
about
– places and routes
– time-tables for public transport
– hiking trails
– ski slopes
– points-of-interest
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Linked Open Data (LOD) - data sets
• Open Streetmap
• Google Places
• Databases of government
– TIRIS
– DVT
• Tourism & Ticketing association
• IVB (busses and trams)
• OEBB (trains)
• Ärztekammer
• Supermarket chains: listing of products
• Hofer and similar: weekly offers
• ASFINAG: Traffic/Congestion data
• Herold (yellow pages)
• City archive
• Museums/Zoo
• News sources like TT (Tyrol's major daily
newspaper)
• Statistik Austria
• Innsbruck Airport (travel times, airline
schedules)
• ZAMG (Weather)
• University of Innsbruck (Curricula,
student statistics, study possibilities)
• IKB (electricity, water consumption)
• Entertainment facilities (Stadtcafe,
Cinema...)
• Special offers (Groupon)
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On the fly service intergation as you pay
• Data and services from destination
sites integrated for recommendation
and booking of
– Hotels
– Restaurants
– Cultural and entertainment events
– Sightseeing
– Shops
• Two integration approaches:
– ad-hoc service integration: via Web
scrapping as a quick integration
solution
– via APIs and backend integration
for a long term, durable solution
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Everything integrated: Tourist Map Austria
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• Based on Open
Street Map
• Increase on-line
visibility for hotel and
destination via multi-
channel
communication -
SCEI
• Hotels, ski passes,
etc. directly bookable
– seekda engine
SCEI
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Everything integrated: Tourist Map Austria
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• Based on Open
Street Map
• Increase on-line
visibility for hotel and
destination via multi-
channel
communication -
SCEI
• Hotels, ski passes,
etc. directly bookable
– seekda engine
• LOD to integrate and
lookup data about
hiking trails, ski
slopes, etc.
LODSCEI
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Everything integrated: Tourist Map Austria
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• Based on Open
Street Map
• Increase on-line
visibility for hotel and
destination via multi-
channel
communication -
SCEI
• Hotels, ski passes,
etc. directly bookable
– seekda engine
• LOD to integrate and
lookup data about
hiking trails, ski
slopes, etc.
• On the fly service
integration as you pay
LODSCEI
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Summary
• The multi-channel monster can be seen as a threat of:
– Failing to be properly present (active and passive) in a multitude of opportunities
– Spending a non-justify effort on achieving the former
– Going out of business in both cases (even if for different reasons)
• We propose a scalable solution for this based on using semantics.
• Core is the separation of content and channel and its explicit
interweavement.
• For our approach, semantics is a corner stone but requires many
additional services and layers to actually provide its potential.
• Together with Seekda we are currently focusing on the eTourisms
domain, however, other verticals may follow.
• In general, we target domains (verticals) with many SMEs that need to
intensively interact with their customers on-line.
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