The Personal Reader: Personalizing and Enriching Learning Resources Using Semantic Web Technologies

The use of Semantic Web technologies in educational Web portals has been reported to facilitate users’ search, access, and retrieval of learning resources. To achieve this, a number of different architectural components and services need to be harmonically combined and implemented. This article presents how this issue is dealt with in the context of a large-scale case study. More specifically, it describes the architecture behind the Organic.Edunet Web portal that aims to provide access to a federation of repositories with learning resources on agricultural topics. The various components of the architecture are presented and the supporting technologies are explained. In addition, the article focuses on how Semantic Web technologies are being adopted, specialized, and put in practice in order to facilitate ontology-aided sharing and reusing of learning resources.

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Reusing Learning Resources based on Semantic Web Technologies

Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06) ◽

10.1109/icalt.2006.1652578 ◽

2006 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

S. Dehors ◽

C.F. Zucker

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Learning Resources ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Web Technologies

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Building and Use of a LOM Ontology

Ontology Theory, Management and Design ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-859-3.ch007 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 162-178

Author(s):

Ghebghoub Ouafia ◽

Abel Marie-Hélène ◽

Moulin Claude ◽

Leblanc Adeline

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Learning Objects ◽

Shared Understanding ◽

Learning Resources ◽

Access Management ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Web Technologies ◽

E Learning ◽

The Web ◽

Available Resources

The increasing number of available resources that may be used during e-learning can raise problems of access, management and sharing. An e-learning application therefore shares the same problem of relevance to the Web concerning the access to learning resources. Semantic web technologies provide promising solutions to such problems. One main feature of this new web generation is the shared understanding based on ontologies. This chapter presents an approach to index learning resources semantically using a LOM ontology. This ontology was developed to clarify the concepts, and to describe the existing relations between elements of the LOM standard. The author present also our tool based on this ontology which allows to describe learning objects and helps retrieving them.

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Architecture of the Organic.Edunet Web Portal

New Generation of Portal Software and Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-571-1.ch005 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 54-69

Author(s):

Nikos Manouselis ◽

Kostas Kastrantas ◽

Salvador Sanchez-Alonso ◽

Jesús Cáceres ◽

Hannes Ebner ◽

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Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Large Scale ◽

Learning Resources ◽

Web Portals ◽

Web Portal ◽

Semantic Web Technologies ◽

Web Technologies

The use of Semantic Web technologies in educational Web portals has been reported to facilitate users’ search, access, and retrieval of learning resources. To achieve this, a number of different architectural components and services need to be harmonically combined and implemented. This article presents how this issue is dealt with in the context of a large-scale case study. More specifically, it describes the architecture behind the Organic.Edunet Web portal that aims to provide access to a federation of repositories with learning resources on agricultural topics. The various components of the architecture are presented and the supporting technologies are explained. In addition, the article focuses on how Semantic Web technologies are being adopted, specialized, and put in practice in order to facilitate ontology-aided sharing and reusing of learning resources.

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