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LinkedUp at ISWC
Coming to an end…
• EU-funded project – Nov 2012 – October 2014
• Aim: “push forward the exploitation and adoption of
public, open data available on the Web by educational organisations and institutions”
• http://linkedup-project.eu
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LinkedUp Consortium
http://linkedup-project.eu
http://linkedup-challenge.org
LinkedUp Web sites
LinkedUp Challenge
• Looking for interesting and innovative tools and applications that analyse and/or integrate open web data for educational purposes
• Aimed at anyone from researchers and students, to developers and businesses
• From innovative prototypes and tools through to large-scale deployable systems
• Creating ‘open web data success stories’
May – October 2014
• 13 Shortlisted entries • Awards ceremony at
ISWC • 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes
Vici Competition
10 Vici Shortlisted Submissions
• AGRIS: the hub for agricultural research • Didactalia • FLAX • GroupMOOC • Histropedia – The Timeline of Everything • HyperTED: Exploring TED talks at the fragment
level • LearnWeb-OER • ResXplorer • ISCOOL • Visualizing Research Works in the Water
Resources Industry
LinkedUp Toolbox
• For open data competition organisers
• Can be applied by those organising academic or industry competitions
• Has six sections each containing resources: Competition framework; Evaluation framework; Guidance schedule; Data; Promotion methodology; Legal and IPR
LinkedUp Catalogue
• Catalogue of Web datasets relevant to educational applications
• Provided according to the standard of the Web of Data (Linked Data)
• Example data sets: bibliographic, geospacial, administrative, learning analytics, event related, TED talks
• Also available on Datahub
http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/catalog/
Evaluation Framework
• Consists of predefined evaluation procedures and benchmarking criteria
• Requirements include: interdisciplinary coverage, integration of high-quality web data, integration with local data, context and filtering, scalability and performance and multilingualism.
• Reviewed after each stage of the challenge – resulting in a useful tool
LAK Challenge & dataset
• Linked Data (including full text) of all publications and journals in the Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining communities
• LAK Data Challenge - annual competition
• Asks “What do analytics on learning analytics tell us?”
• Interactive LAK Data workshop collocated with the LAK Conference
Open Education Working Group
• Brings together people and groups interested in open education
• Wants to initiate cross-sector, cross-domain, global activity that encompasses the various facets of open education
• Active mailing list and Twitter feed, activities are co-ordinated through bimonthly working group calls
• Includes open data in education, open educational content, open learning and teaching practices and open accreditation.
Open Education Handbook
• A collaboratively written living web document targeting educational practitioners and the education community at large • Introduction to various open
education topics including open education data, open education resources, learning and teaching practice, open source tools and open accreditation
W3C Community Group
• Open Linked Education community • Focus point for the community to collect,
capture and adopt practices • Brings together existing initiatives and
practices currently employed to sharing education-related data on the web
• Includes vocabularies and best practices. • The LinkedUp consortium will lead the
community group from Summer 2014
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Collaboration with communities
Collaboration with EU RTD projects
Further Resources
• LinkedUp Project Website: http://linkedup-project.eu
• LinkedUp Challenge website: http://linkedup-challenge.org
• LinkedUp Catalogue: http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/catalog/
• LinkedUp Toolbox: http://linkedup-project.eu/toolbox/
• Open Education Working Group: http://education.okfn.org
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