info-retrieval

Information Retrieval project

Websites in use:

• ticinotopten.ch
  • good: many categories, local specialties
  • bad: poor meta for each activity
• myswitzerland.ch
  • good: many categories, great meta
  • bad: need to go into pages for more detailed info per activity
• zermatt.ch
  • good: many categories, great meta, local specialties
  • bad: poorly structured

Elements scraped:

• Activity name
• Activity type:
  • Hike
  • Cycling
  • Adventure
  • (Other - water, snow, parks etc.)
• Region
• Distance (km)
• Duration (h)

If possible, also scrape:

• Ascent
• Description
• Accessibility info

Files:

• hiking_ti
  • crawls the hiking pages of ticinotopten.ch
• activities_ti
  • crawls the other activity categories of ticinotopten.ch
• hiking_ch1
  • crawls all activities of zermatt.ch
• hiking_ch2
  • crawls the hiking section of myswitzerland.ch

TODO:

• User eval