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Lau, Simon Boung-Yew; Lee, Chien-Sing; Singh, Yashwant Prasad – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
With the proliferation of social Web applications, users can now collaboratively author, share and access hypermedia learning resources, contributing to richer learning experiences outside formal education. These resources may or may not be educational. However, they can be harnessed for educational purposes by adapting and personalizing them to…
Descriptors: Hypermedia, Metadata, Web 2.0 Technologies, Educational Resources
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Morsey, Mohamed; Lehmann, Jens; Auer, Soren; Stadler, Claus; Hellmann, Sebastian – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: DBpedia extracts structured information from Wikipedia, interlinks it with other knowledge bases and freely publishes the results on the web using Linked Data and SPARQL. However, the DBpedia release process is heavyweight and releases are sometimes based on several months old data. DBpedia-Live solves this problem by providing a live…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Collaborative Writing, Electronic Publishing, Data
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Martinez-Garcia, Agustina; Corti, Louise – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2012
This article discusses how the idea of higher education students as producers of knowledge rather than consumers can be operationalised by means of student research projects, in which processes of research archiving and analysis are enabled through the use of semantic technologies. It discusses how existing digital repository frameworks can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Student Research, Semantics
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Campbell, D. Grant; Fast, Karl V. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2004
This paper examines how future metadata capabilities could enable academic libraries to exploit information on the emerging Semantic Web in their library catalogues. Whereas current metadata architectures treat the Web as a simple means of interchanging bibliographic data that have been created by libraries, this paper suggests that academic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Research Tools, Literary Criticism, Information Services
Miller, Eric – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is an infrastructure that enables the encoding, exchange and reuse of structured metadata. RDF additionally provides a means for publishing both human-readable and machine-readable vocabularies designed to encourage the reuse and extension of metadata semantics among disparate information communities.…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Oriented Programs, Electronic Publishing, Information Dissemination
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Saarela, Janne; Turpeinen, Marko; Puskala, Tuomas; Korkea-aho, Mari; Sulonen, Reijo – Information Processing & Management, 1997
Describes an object-oriented approach which implements the logical model of a hypermedia newspaper based on experiences with the OtaOnline project at the Helsinki University of Technology (Finland.) Highlights include presentation formats, a semantical rating system, distribution schemes, metadata, and added-value features facilitated by the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers