2. Fundación iBit
R+D public organism founded at 1998 and dependent of the Consejería de
Economía, Hacienda e Innovación del Gobierno de las Islas Baleares.
Purpose: to promote the progress of Balearic Islands in Information Society,
Knowledge and Technological Innovation areas
Governing Board:
Gobierno Islas Baleares
Telefónica
Sa Nostra
www.ibit.org/home/en/
3. turisLAB
Since 2008, Fundació iBit signed a collaboration agreement with
turisTEC creating the turisLAB figure to convert R+D results in
industrial product. The goal is to improve competitivity of the balearic
tourism sector
turisTEC
Cluster of companies and institutions dedicated to the
production and implementation of technological solutions
for the Tourism Industry. It is composed of 75 members
www.turistec.org
4. Project Portfolio
2010
CAVAL initiative that promotes the development of an open standard of data interoperability
for the travel and tourism industry. Actions:
Matrícula turística, creation of a unique resource identificator for tourist resources (telematic
code)
Web service technical specifications for interoperability along the value chain
Flight Delay Data Monitoring System, delay management related to aerial transport
http://www.caval.travel
AL4Tour, semantic crawling and analysis of online reputation data for hotels
MashupTV, creation of interactive touristic digital TV channels over IP
e-factura, extensions of the Facturae format, electronic invoice for travel industry
Predictive models portal, hotel demand forecast using reservation histories
FotoID, photoidentification techniques applied to conservation of natural species
6. Proposals
Optimus, hotel multi-channel distribution optimization systems
Related topics: Revenue Management, hotel online reservations, optimization,
multichannel distribution,e-business, predictive models
Open Profile-Pro, professional collaboration networks management
Related topics: Social networks in profesional environments, Semantic web,
network analysis, RDF, interoperability standards, collaborative network
management