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Port authorities have the need to manage diverse information within the port area under its responsibility regarding their land and sea infrastructures. Through this innovation, which adds value to the port and its activity, it is made an interconnection of strategic areas, with the provision and sharing of structured data in a georeferenced environment. This work presents an innovative platform, based on various modules and allows effective control and efficient management of operations, processes and requirements associated with any sea port. The developed modules are designed to support the activities of business processes in the following areas of the port administration: Heritage, Hydrography, Port Traffic, Dominial, Studies and Works, Safety and Environment. Most of these modules were pioneers in the integration with business process management of portuguese ports of Leixoes and Viana do Castelo.

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SDIs allow the gathering of technical and organizational elements needed to enable the usage of territorial based information in an interoperable way. However, the cost of managing an SDI is high and the expertise level required is too specialized which, combined, hamper its maintenance and operation. This work, still in progress, presents a proposal for a manager for a regional level SDI, free software based, following the European INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community) directive principles and complying with OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standards. This CMS (Content Management System) for the SDI will shield the user from the inherent complexity and ease the creation of innovative services and the integration of cross-sectorial applications for a given region, using the geographic information generated by each municipality, as well as provide data for sibling SDIs (inter regional) and parent SDIs (supra regional).

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Nowadays it's basically mandatory for any tourist region to have a web site intended for the potential visitors. A wealth of new possibilities has recently sprung up with the support by modern browsers of new standards and technologies. Additionally, in contrast with other areas, for which various platforms are already available and simply require some customisation, this doesn't happen with tourism. This paper describes the design of a generic platform that can be customised to any tourist region, featuring integrated georeferencing of items from heterogene-ous sources, trip planner based on a suggestion engine - considering the location and category of included points of interest (POI) -, interconnection of Events, POI, Routes and Itineraries. The result goes beyond what's currently available and is being deployed in the Douro Valley wine region in a proof of concept and case study manner.