Sharing Knowledge is What
we Do: Education
and/or the
Semantic Web
Mathieu
d’Aquin
@mdaquin
Knowledge Media
Institute, The Open
University
The semantic web is about...
supporting software agents in
acquiring, manipulating and
exploiting knowledge online.
The semantic web is about...
supporting software agents in
acquiring, manipulating and
exploiting knowledge online.
Education
people
or not...
Where do they meet?
In many (old-school) metadata-
related initiatives
In TEL, eLearning, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, information
retrieval...
In Linked Data Initiatives
data.open.ac.uk
owl:sameAs
mlo:offers
mlo:location
http://data.open.ac.uk/course/m366
http://sws.geonames.org/2963597/ (Ireland)
http://data.open.ac.uk/organization/the_open_university
http://education.data.gov.uk/id/school/133849
Applications - Simple
A very simple map of the buildings of
the Open University….
Built in 2 hours…
Using data from ordnance survey.
b1
b1-
address
Postcode-
mk76aa
name
“Berrill building”
Milton
Keynes
inDistrict
Buckingha
mshire
inCounty
Mk76aa
location
location
lat long
52.024
924
-0.709
726
Applications - Recommendation
Applications - Recommendation
Applications - Learning Analytics
Thinking about the Systems?
Library catalogue
Books
Course material
Set books
Articles
Authors
Multimedia material
Courses
Topics
Research Repository
Articles
Authors
Books
Research Data
Topics
Research Data Store
Research Data
Authors
Articles
Topics
Course Catalogue
Courses
Qualifications
Authors
Topics
OER repository
Course material
Authors
Topics
Podcast system/iTunesU
Multimedia material
Authors
Topics
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
part of
part of
or
relevant to
Course
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
Course
part of
new edition of
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
Course
part of
new edition of
new version of
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
Course
part of
new edition of
new version of
authored by
Academic staff
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course
part of
new edition of
new version of
authored by
Academic staff
Research papers
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
Course
part of
new edition of
new version of
extracted into
and
made available as
authored by
Academic staff
Research papers
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
Course
part of
new edition of
new version of
Multimedia
material
part of
or
relevant to
extracted into
and
made available as
extracted into
and
made available as
authored by
Academic staff
Research papers
Linked
Universities
LinkedUp Project
The LinkedUp Data Catalogue
The LinkedUp Data Catalogue
So, where are we with it?
Graphs
Sizes
Common Classes
Common Properties
A simple model
Person
Learner Author
Topic
Resource
Book
OER
Course
Material
Multimedia
Material
Organisation
Institution
Course
affiliated with
associated
with
created
Teacher
takesregistered
with
expert in
teaches
usesstudies
about
A simpler model
Person
Learner Author
Topic
Resource
Book
OER
Course
Material
Multimedia
Material
Organisation
Institution
Course
affiliated with
associated
with
created
Teacher
takesregistered
with
expert in
teaches
usesstudies
about
A simpler model
Person
Learner Author
Topic
Resource
Book
OER
Course
Material
Multimedia
Material
Organisation
Institution
Course
affiliated with
associated
with
created
Teacher
takesregistered
with
expert in
teaches
usesstudies
about
A simpler model
Person
Learner Author
Topic
Resource
Book
OER
Course
Material
Multimedia
Material
Organisation
Institution
Course
affiliated with
associated
with
created
Teacher
takesregistered
with
expert in
teaches
usesstudies
about
A simpler model
Person
Learner Author
Topic
Resource
Book
OER
Course
Material
Multimedia
Material
Organisation
Institution
Course
affiliated with
associated
with
created
Teacher
takesregistered
with
expert in
teaches
usesstudies
about
A much simpler model
Person Resource
to learn
about
interested in
Topic
about
uses
contributes to
A much simpler model
Person Resource
to learn
about
interested in
Topic
about
uses
contributes to relates to
relates to
A much simpler model
Person Resource
to learn
about
interested in
Topic
about
uses
contributes tointeracts/colla
borates with
on
relates to
relates to
A much simpler model
Person Resource
to learn
about
interested in
Topic
about
uses
contributes tointeracts/colla
borates with
on
relates to
relates to
MOOCs, informal learning, collaborative learning,
incidental learning, social learning
AFEL
Analytics For Everyday Learning
afel-project.eu
AFEL - ANalytics for Everyday Learning
activities
data
learning
activity
analytics
AFEL - ANalytics for Everyday Learning
activities
data
learning
activity
analytics
COnclusion
There is a lot to do with Linked Data in Education, and many
initiatives exists already.
As the notion of education is itself evolving, Linked Data
should be supporting these changes.
By enabling the analysis and sense making of activities on the
web, as they reflect learning activities.
In other words, as education is becoming more open,
decentralised and disaggregated, there will be more
opportunities for Linked Data to become the primary way of
sharing knowledge...
Thank you!
Alessandro
Adamou
Enrico
Daga
Carlo
Allocca
Shuangyan
Liu
Keerthi
Thomas
Ilaria
Tiddi
Emanuele
Bastianelli
@mdaquin
mathieu.daquin@open.ac.uk

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