IDN-Travel: Touristic data production and reuse beyond walled gardens

The diffusion of social networks has boosted the user-generated content sharing in different application domains. At present travel-oriented social networks do not allow the users to organize their information with an easy reuse of data found on a Web-scale. In this paper we address the problem of Web of data reuse through the IDN-Travel Application, a solution that allows users to manage granular data that can be structured as desired, by reusing other information that may be everywhere in the Web. The present application is built on top of the InterDataNet architecture allowing users to collaborate on structured documents aggregating distributed data from the Web. In InterDataNet each data unit has an owner responsible entitled of its management. Each authorized user will (re)use data directly from its origin without duplicating it. This work aims to demonstrate the technical viability of this solution, allowing the user to (re)use data without be confined within the walled gardens established by social media. The InterDataNet infrastructure solution handling auxiliary information related to data and documents reuse can therefore serve other application scenarios.