Post on 13-Apr-2017
Sharing Knowledge is What we Do: Education and/or the Semantic Web
Mathieud’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
Buckinghamshire
inCounty
Mk76aalocation
location
lat long
52.024924
-0.709726
Applications - Recommendation
Applications - Recommendation
Applications - Learning Analytics
Thinking about the Systems?
Library catalogueBooksCourse materialSet booksArticlesAuthorsMultimedia materialCoursesTopics
Research RepositoryArticlesAuthorsBooksResearch DataTopics
Research Data StoreResearch DataAuthorsArticlesTopics
Course CatalogueCoursesQualificationsAuthorsTopics
OER repositoryCourse materialAuthorsTopics
Podcast system/iTunesUMultimedia materialAuthorsTopics
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
part of
part ofor
relevant to
Course
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
Coursepart of
new edition of
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
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new edition of
new version of
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
Coursepart of
new edition of
new version ofauthored by
Academic staff
Thinking about the Data Model!
Coursepart of
new edition of
new version ofauthored by
Academic staff
Research papers
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
Coursepart of
new edition of
new version of
extracted intoand
made available as
authored by
Academic staff
Research papers
Thinking about the Data Model!
Course Material
Coursepart of
new edition of
new version of
Multimedia material
part ofor
relevant to
extracted intoand
made available as
extracted intoand
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
BookOER 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
BookOER 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
BookOER 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
BookOER 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
BookOER 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/collaborates with
on
relates to
relates to
A much simpler model
Person Resource
to learn about
interested in
Topic
about
uses
contributes tointeracts/collaborates 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
activ
ities data
learning activity
analytics
AFEL - ANalytics for Everyday Learning
activ
ities 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
@mdaquinmathieu.daquin@open.ac.uk