A mobile platform for on-the-move user-generated tourist contents

The paper presents the implementation of a platform which allows the generation, annotation and retrieval of on-the-move multimedia tourist contents while on a tourist destination. The platform toggles the different stages of the processes involved on the cycle of life of the content: creation, indexation, storage and publication. The application has been implemented using the J2ME standard to take advantage of the standard APIs implemented on the last generation mobile phones. Content annotation is based on multilingual folksonomies, allowing a widespread approach to describe the content and strengthening the social nature of the on-the-move multimedia user-generated content. An authorized person or body filters it before being published. Once user-generated multimedia tourist contents are accepted, they are published using a tool into a web page. This GUI allows browsing for contents provided by individual users or those including a tag or keyword. Finally, the paper provides a brief summary of the evaluation of the prototype.