There was a time when books, newspapers, magazines, and journals were the primary sources of content and information. You had to enjoy slow reading of (limited) information sources to gain a knowledge base that matched a particular curriculum outline.
This was when content was king and the teacher was the sage on the stage. Now communication is the new curriculum and network connections drive deep learning and knowledge creation. The era of collaborating, communicating, and integrating resources flexibly and online is here to stay. Massive change has pushed us into a 21st century information maze. What does the 21st century web offer us? What is the relevance of linked data and semantic search and how might this affect our information seeking, and learning/teaching strategies?
Presented at the ACEC2010 Conference "Digital Diversity", Melbourne, Australia. http://acec2010.info/
5. On the Horizon
Technology continues to profoundly a ect the way
we work, collaborate, communicate, and succeed.
Horizon Report 2010 K-12 Edition
Collaborative environments can be complete, o -the-shelf
packages or collections of do-it yourself tools, depending on the level of comfort of the
teachers and support personnel and the needs of the students using the systems. Whatever
tools are chosen, collaborative environments give students tremendous opportunities to
interact with peers and mentors, experience other world views, and model the kinds of work
patterns that take place in an increasing number of professions.
Cloud computing has transformed the way we think about computing and
communication, data storage and access, and collaborative work. Cloud-based applications
and services are available to many school students today, and more schools are employing
cloud computing solutions all the time. What still remains to be developed is the capacity for
the cloud to help students engage in real research and participate in global learning
communities.
25. Rich (vertical) content
• Amazon experience!
• Blogs and web
• Social bookmarking
• Wikis
• Image and Videos
• Places & events
• Music, books, and
more.....
26. Jaguar
Meaning
Linked
Data
Jaguar
Interoperability
27. Beyond keyword search
The Intelligent Web
Web 4.0
Productivity of Search 2020 - 2030 Reasoning
The Semantic Web
Web 3.0 Semantic Search
2010 - 2020
The Social Web
Natural language search
The World Wide Web
Web2010
2000 -
2.0
Tagging
Web2000
1990 -
1.0
Keyword search
The Desktop
Directories
PC Era
1980 - 1990
Files & Folders
Databases
By Radar Networks http://www.slideshare.net/adityatuli/explaining-the-semantic-web Amount of data
32. Semantic web
:machine readable data:
i.e. the stuff a
computer can
get at when it goes
to a site.
Folksonomy by itself is not Web 3.0!
33. Semantic web
Embedding semantical
annotations into
the data.
To recognize people,
places, events, companies,
products, movies, etc.
34. Semantic web
Resource Description Framework
Understand the
relationships between things
35. Semantic web
Organisations are publishing their data
in semantic Web formats.
This information can be directly
and precisely
linked together over the Web itself.
Instead of having to go through proprietary software APIs
and query listening services,
thedata and data models are
fully accessible from the Web itself.
36. Semantic web
The BBC Search Team is building on
this newly-available linked data, by
creating pan-BBC aggregations of
content
Each Search+ page shows the best
content on its particular topic from
around bbc.co.uk, and sometimes
selected content from outside the
BBC.
The RDF representations of these web identifiers allow
developers to use BBC data to build applications.
37. Semantic web
Key benefits
* Usability—Making a site
around the things people
care and think about.
* User Experience—
Having resources that can
be visualised in new ways.
38. Semantic web
Key benefits
* User Journeys—Allowing
users to make their own
journeys across our content.
On the BBC /nature, users
can start making their own
documentaries.
39. Semantic web
Key benefits
* One page per thing—Making
resources part of the Web and
therefore linkable and
discoverable.
* The web site is the API—One
URI for both machines and web
browsers. The web site can be
used by third parties to create (mix
and match) new new products.
40. Semantic web
stop thinking websites and
start thinking data
understand
the network effect
content is [still] king
~ but only when it is
open and free