Examples of secondary online data for raising awareness about geo and mining heritage.

The paper analyzes the potential of secondary spatial data and online user-generated content. Special focus is dedicated to social networks and travel platforms, respectively their open application programming interfaces as tools for using third party platforms with the combination of open machine-readable data for raising awareness about geo and mining heritage. Existing good practise within harvesting of open access machine-readable data from the social network Facebook, the hybrid map service Google Places and the travelers' application Foursquare was used for constructing the current partial online image of the Zemplín geopark as a selected example area with a higher density of geosites and objects of mining heritage. Subsequently, based on the pilot results, the harvested data's suitability was analyzed for both tourism services' consumers' satisfaction and geosites' visitors' experiences' monitoring, and the creation of feedback for selected geological and mining heritage points of interest. Even though the current volumes of records representing geosites and mining heritage within the analyzed platforms are low, the results could help to strengthen the relationship between tourism service providers and geosites as an essential part of primary resources within the shared online communication environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]