OnTraNetBD: a knowledgebase for the travel network in Bangladesh

Semantic web can be seen as an extension of the world wide web which offers a common structure that permits data to be pooled and reused across applications, enterprises, and community limitations. Some researchers defined it as a web of formal data. On the other hand, ontologies define the concepts as well as the relationships among them to formally represent a specific domain of interest. They are the elementary unit for inference techniques on the Semantic Web. When ontology contains instances then it becomes a knowledge base. In Bangladesh Tourism has become a major area for improvement because often the information found on the web is not organized and consistent enough. This paper presents OnTraNetBD, a knowledge base containing the formal relationship among the tourist attractions and the other complementary elements of traveling. The main purpose of this knowledge base is to present the travel information to any end users or machines which will facilitate both to understand the domain information and use it according to the individual requirements. Moreover, OnTraNetBD is furnished with such a design so that it can be mapped with other travel ontology or knowledge base to extend the information domain.