Connecting medical educational resources to the Linked Data cloud: the mEducator RDF Schema, store and API

Evangelia, Mitsopoulou ; Taibi, Davide ; Giordano, Daniela ; Dietze, Stefan; Yu, Hong Qing; Bamidis, Panagiotis ; Bratsas, Charalampos and Woodham, Luke (2011). Connecting medical educational resources to the Linked Data cloud: the mEducator RDF Schema, store and API. In: Linked Learning 2011: 1st International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age, 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2011), 29 May 2011, Heraklion, Greece.

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Abstract

The existence of non-interoperable metadata schemas and limited use of shared vocabularies means that retrieving and processing educational resources across the Web represents a challenge. The emerging Linked Data paradigm has provided the tools and methods to share and expose metadata in a more unified and well interlinked manner, permitting both humans and machines to process Web data. The availability of vast amounts of RDF-based Linked Data is offering a worthwhile alternative to the isolated and heterogeneous data silos which previously dominated the Web. In the ECfunded project mEducator a standardised approach is proposed to describing and exposing medical educational resources. In this paper are described firstly the design considerations, and conceptual model upon which mEducator’s metadata scheme approach was based. Afterwards, follows the description of the serialization of the scheme in RDF/XML, and in turn follows an example showing how medical educational resources are exposed on the Web using an RDF endpoint, and discuss the potential advantages of this approach.

Item Type:	Conference Item
Copyright Holders:	2011 The Authors
ISSN:	1613-0073
Extra Information:	Linked Learning 2011 eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age Proceedings of Linked Learning 2011: the 1st International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age co-located with the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC2011 Heraklion, Greece, May 29, 2011. Edited by Stefan Dietze, Mathieu d'Aquin, Dragan Gasevic, Miguel-Angel Sicilia
Academic Unit/Department:	Knowledge Media Institute
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
Related URLs:	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de...(Other)
Item ID:	29124
Depositing User:	Kay Dave
Date Deposited:	20 Jul 2011 11:09
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2012 03:42
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/29124

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