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LinkedUp – Linking Web Data for Education Project
European Data Forum 2014
Presenters:
Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center
Marieke Guy, Open Knowledge
Foundation
Alessandro Adamou, Open University
LinkedUp Consortium
LinkedUp Network
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”
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http://linkedup-project.eu
Areas of Work Overview
• LinkedUp Challenge • Evaluation Framework for Open Web Data • Open Web Data Success Stories • Collation of datasets
• LinkedUp Catalog • Linked Education Cloud group on the DataHub • data.linkededucation.org
• Community building
LinkedUp Data Catalogue
Data curation & profiling
LinkedUp Dataset Catalog
Stefan Dietze
§ Catalog of data (LinkedUp Catalog): classifica(on of datasets according to resource types, disciplines/topics, data quality, accessability, etc
§ Infrastructure for distributed/federated querying
describes
§ Which datasets are useful & trustworthy for case XY (eg „learning about the solar system“) ?
§ Which topics (eg „Astronomy“) are covered by dataset X?
§ Which datasets describe/offer videos (slides, publications, statistics etc)?
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§ RDF dataset catalog of Linked Open Data for learning
§ Browse, explore and query across the LOD cloud § Federated queries
LinkedUp Data Catalogue
h:p://data.linkededuca(on.org/linkedup/catalog/
h:p://data.linkededuca(on.org/linkedup/categories-‐explorer
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 April 2014 – October 2014
May – September 2013
Veni Competition Overview
• 22 entries from 12 countries • 8 shortlisted
• Winners announced at OK Con in Geneva • 1st Prize - Polimedia • 2nd Prize - Globe Town • 3rd Prize - We-Share • People’s Choice – We-Share
Winner: PoliMedia
09/04/13 Stefan Dietze
§ http://www.polimedia.nl
§ Stimulate and facilitate large-scale, cross-media analysis of the coverage of political events.
§ Browsing through parliament debates, finding related media coverage
§ Data sources: 1) newspapers 2) radio bulletins of the Dutch National Press Agency
Mar(jn Kleppe, Max Kemman, Henri Beunders (Erasmus Universiteit Ro:erdam), Laura Hollink Damir Juric (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Johan Oomen Jaap Blom (Nederlands Ins(tuut voor Beeld en Geluid)
Veni Awards, OKCon, Geneva • Live streaming of awards • 900+ at event • Video of awards online
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November 2013 – May 2014
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Vidi Competition Focused Tracks
Looking for prototypes that solve a particular problem
Vidi Competition Overview
• 14 entries from 12 countries • Currently being looked at by review panel • Assessing using evaluation framework • Winners will be announced at ESWC in Crete, May 2014 • Prizes for open track and focused track • People’s Choice
May – October 2013
• Soon to be launched! • Awards ceremony at ISWC, Italy,
October 2014
Collabora<on with related EU RTD projects
Collabora<on with disparate communi<es
http://education.okfn.org • Part of the sustainability of the LinkedUp project Binds together people to promote open data, open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices • Mailing list, Twitter feed • Working Group calls
Open Education Working Group
Open Education Handbook http://education.okfn.org/handbook/
• A collaboratively written living web document targeting educational practitioners and the education community at large • Work carried out at two booksprints in London and Berlin • Handbook available online in Booktype • Recently translated to Portuguese
Looking for people to contribute!!