Combining Linked Data and Mobiles Devices to

improve access to OCW N. Piedra, J. Chicaiza, J. López

Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador

E. TovarUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM

Madrid Spain

O M BonastreUniversidad Miguel Hernandez,

Elche, Spain

IEEE EDUCON 2012, Marrakesh

Introduction

Combining Linked Data and Mobiles Devices to improve access to OCW, IEEE EDUCON 2012

Most of the Web content is designed for human consumption and stored in a human-understandable but not machine-readable format.

Introduction

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Consequently, the classical Web -a Web of Documents- is evolving toward a new and promising model called Semantic Web.

Introduction

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Philosophy of GICAC (Group of Innovation in the Quality Management of Higher Education Institutions – UPM, Spain & UTPL, Equator):

Deploying Linked Open Data -particularly data of open educational materials- concerning universities, repositories, people, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Course Ware (OCW) from existing institutional repositories and databases, under OCW UNIVERSIA Consortium.

Mobiles and Education

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New features of mobile devices promote creation of sites called Markets / Store

Applications designed for mobile devices can take advantage of other incorporated features (camera, microphone, GPS, WIFI, etc.)

Mobiles and Education

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The influence of these devices in education has allowed the term "Mobile Education or Mobile Learning”

Context

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Open Educational Content and OpenCourseWare

Universia and the OpenCourseWare Consortium

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Using Linked Data in the OCW Context

To improve discovery, accessibility, visibility and interoperability

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Using Linked Data in the OCW Context

Active role of Linked Data in the OCW context.

Current implementation of linked data in open educational contents as Linked OpenCourseWare Data Vocabulary (LOCWD)

Context

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Context

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LOCWD triplestore contains RDF data of OCW courses published by OCW-Universia network member countries sifting through a total of 1595 OCW courses. The data model is divided into subdomains• OCW repository properties• OCW properties• License properties• Link to datasets of interest in the LinkedOpenData cloud.

Architecture for LOCWD-Mobile

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Architecture for LOCWD-Mobile

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Proof-of-concept

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Proof-of-concept

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Proof-of-concept

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Conclusions

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Benefit of Combination of Linked Data and mobile devices

The mobile devices could produce OER's (with audio, video, photos, recommendations, etc.) and stored it in semantic repositories.

The users of mobile applications can improve User Experience by consuming semantically enriched information and linked data.

Acknowledgment

Combining Linked Data and Mobiles Devices to improve access to OCW, IEEE EDUCON 2012

eMadrid Network of Excellence S2009 TIC-1650. Comunidad de Madrid, Spain

National Secretary of Sciences and Technology (SENESCYT). Republic of Ecuador