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LinkedUp – Linking Web Data for Education Project

LinkedUp  –  Consor/um  and  Network  L  

LinkedUp  Network  

LinkedUp  Consor/um  

LinkedUp Project Linking data for Education

●  EU Project from November 2012 - November 2014 ●  FP7 Support Action which “pushes forward the

exploitation and adoption of public, open data available on the Web, in particular by educational organisations and institutions”

●  Open Knowledge Foundation leading on dissemination

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http://linkedup-project.eu

Areas of Work Overview

•  LinkedUp Challenge •  Open Web Data Success Stories •  Collation of datasets

•  LinkedUp Catalog •  Linked Education Cloud group on the DataHub •  data.linkededucation.org

•  Evaluation Framework for Open Web Data Applications •  Technology Transfer in the Education Sector

LinkedUp Challenge Overview

•  3 competitions: Veni, Vidi, Vici •  “We’re inviting you to design and build innovative and robust prototypes and demos for tools that analyse and/or integrate open web data for educational purposes” •  People’s Choice •  Veni Competition June 2013 – September 2013 •  Vidi Competition November 2013 – May 2014 •  Vici Competition June 2014 – October 2014

May – September 2013

GlobeTown  Open  data  for  sustainable  development  

09/04/13 Stefan Dietze

 

§  h4p://www.globe-­‐town.org/:  informa;ve  applica;on  for  sustainable  development  

§  Reputable  open  government  data:  SWERA  renewable  energy  data:  h4p://swera.unep.net/,  UN  Comtrade  trade  data:  h4p://comtrade.un.org/,  Country  names  and  codes:  h4p://opengeocode.org,  OECD  sta;s;cs:  h4p://stats.oecd.org/,  World  Bank:  h4p://data.worldbank.org    

§  Interac;on  between:  environment,  economy  and  society    (cause  and  effect  in  complex  systems,  local  vs  global  data)  

§  Top  three  place  at  the  first  interna;onal  #Apps4Climate  compe;;on,  held  by  the  World  Bank  

§  h4p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Q0_Is7Lw8    

Jack  Townsend,  Andrea  Prieto-­‐Vega,  Richard  Gomer,  Will  Fyson,  Dom  Hobson,  Huw  Fryer  (University  of  Southampton,  UK)  

PoliMedia:  exploring  poli/cal  debates  &  events  

09/04/13 Stefan Dietze

§  h4p://www.polimedia.nl  

§  S;mulate  and  facilitate  large-­‐scale,  cross-­‐media  analysis  of  the  coverage  of  poli/cal  events.    

§  Browsing  through  parliament  debates,  finding  related  media  coverage  

§  Automa;cally  generated  links  between  transcripts  debates,  newspaper  ar/cles,  including  their  original  lay-­‐out  on  the  page,  and  radio  bulle/ns.  

§  Generated  data  (extracted  structured  knowledge  from  debates  &  media  links)  available  as  Linked  Data  via  SPARQL  (h4p://data.polimedia.nl)  

§  Data  sources:  1)  newspapers  in  their  original  layout  of  the  historical  newspaper  archive,  and  2)  radio  bulle;ns  of  the  Dutch  Na;onal  Press  Agency  (ANP),  both  located  at  the  Dutch  Na;onal  Library.  

§  9000+  debates  (1945  –  1995)  

§  Over  3000  media  links   Mar;jn  Kleppe,  Max  Kemman,  Henri  Beunders  (Erasmus  Universiteit  Ro4erdam),  Laura  Hollink  Damir  Juric  (Vrije  Universiteit  Amsterdam),  Johan  Oomen  Jaap  Blom  (Nederlands  Ins;tuut  voor  Beeld  en  Geluid)  

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Launch 4th November 2013

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Working Group

Overview

•  Part of the sustainability of the LinkedUp project •  Binds together people to promote open data, open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices •  First activity: Writing the Open Education Handbook •  Mailing list, Twitter feed, Hopefully calls - soonish •  http://education.okfn.org

Open Education Handbook Overview

•  One of first activities of Working Group •  Also deliverable for LinkedUp Project •  First version just been delivered •  Second version October 2014 •  First version collaboratively authored at London Booksprint •  In process of moving to Booktype •  Second Booksprint on 22nd November in Berlin •  Will be at Wikimedia Deutschland Offices