Research on interoperability of technology-enhanced learning (TEL)
repositories throughout the last decade has led to a fragmented landscape
of competing approaches, such as metadata schemas and interface mechanisms.
However, so far Web-scale integration of resources is not facilitated,
mainly due to the lack of take-up of shared principles, datasets
and schemas. On the other hand, the Linked Data approach has emerged
as the de-facto standard for sharing data on the Web and offers a
large potential to solve interoperability issues in the field of
TEL. In this paper, we describe a general approach to exploit the
wealth of already existing TEL data on the Web by allowing its exposure
as Linked Data and by taking into account automated enrichment and
interlinking techniques to provide rich and well-interlinked data
for the educational domain. This approach has been implemented in
the context of the mEducator project where data from a number of
open TEL data repositories has been integrated, exposed and enriched
by following Linked Data principles.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 Dietze2012
%A Dietze, Stefan
%A Yu, Honq Qing
%A Giordano, Daniela
%A Kaldoudi, Eleni
%A Dovrolis, Nikolas
%A Taibi, Davide
%B Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
(SAC-2012), Speical Track on Semantic Web and Applications
%C Trento, Italy
%D 2012
%K 2.0, Learning SOA, TEL, Web data, eLearning, education, linked semantic technology-enhanced web,
%P 25-29
%R 10.1145/2245276.2245347
%T Linked education: interlinking educational resources and the Web
of data
%U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2245276.2245347
%X Research on interoperability of technology-enhanced learning (TEL)
repositories throughout the last decade has led to a fragmented landscape
of competing approaches, such as metadata schemas and interface mechanisms.
However, so far Web-scale integration of resources is not facilitated,
mainly due to the lack of take-up of shared principles, datasets
and schemas. On the other hand, the Linked Data approach has emerged
as the de-facto standard for sharing data on the Web and offers a
large potential to solve interoperability issues in the field of
TEL. In this paper, we describe a general approach to exploit the
wealth of already existing TEL data on the Web by allowing its exposure
as Linked Data and by taking into account automated enrichment and
interlinking techniques to provide rich and well-interlinked data
for the educational domain. This approach has been implemented in
the context of the mEducator project where data from a number of
open TEL data repositories has been integrated, exposed and enriched
by following Linked Data principles.
%@ 978-1-4503-0857-1
@inproceedings{Dietze2012,
abstract = {Research on interoperability of technology-enhanced learning (TEL)
repositories throughout the last decade has led to a fragmented landscape
of competing approaches, such as metadata schemas and interface mechanisms.
However, so far Web-scale integration of resources is not facilitated,
mainly due to the lack of take-up of shared principles, datasets
and schemas. On the other hand, the Linked Data approach has emerged
as the de-facto standard for sharing data on the Web and offers a
large potential to solve interoperability issues in the field of
TEL. In this paper, we describe a general approach to exploit the
wealth of already existing TEL data on the Web by allowing its exposure
as Linked Data and by taking into account automated enrichment and
interlinking techniques to provide rich and well-interlinked data
for the educational domain. This approach has been implemented in
the context of the mEducator project where data from a number of
open TEL data repositories has been integrated, exposed and enriched
by following Linked Data principles.},
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address = {Trento, Italy},
author = {Dietze, Stefan and Yu, Honq Qing and Giordano, Daniela and Kaldoudi, Eleni and Dovrolis, Nikolas and Taibi, Davide},
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booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
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keywords = {2.0, Learning SOA, TEL, Web data, eLearning, education, linked semantic technology-enhanced web,},
location = {Trento, Italy},
month = {March},
numpages = {6},
pages = {25-29},
timestamp = {2013-01-31T09:21:29.000+0100},
title = {Linked education: interlinking educational resources and the Web
of data},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2245276.2245347},
year = 2012
}