Application of Ontology in Semantic Web Searching of Flight Ticket as a Study Case

Abstract

The development of technology allows people to obtain information easily. Information about goods or services that society needs can be obtained easily as many websites are built to provide that information. But this is also a challenge for the community. People should search and compare price of the cheapest goods or services according to their needs as well as in purchasing flight tickets. People also should look for flight ticket prices on many websites and compare the tickets themselves for each website. Thus, we need a website that can integrate information from heterogeneous website as a source of data and can help people comparing the price of flight tickets easily. Semantic web is considered as one solution to the problem. Semantic Web requires appropriate scrapping of data to retrieve the online data from specified websites. By using ontology, the semantic web can collect the data and enhance the search process of flight ticket.