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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