Last week I attended the International Semantic Web Conference, and that was a pretty good time to reflect a bit on the state of linked data at the Open University, and beyond. First, because I made a presentation of it, at the industry track of the conference. This was pretty interesting, as it was an [...]
Posts Tagged ‘luceroproject’
The Commonwealth of Learning publishes a report on Linked Data for education, based on the experience in LUCERO
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an intergovernmental organisation including more than 50 independent sovereign states, created to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. Impressed by the work realised in the LUCERO project, by the deployment of data.open.ac.uk (the world’s first university linked data platform), and by the impact it had [...]
LUCERO extension
We have had quite a few nice new things happening in relation to LUCERO recently, including some updates of the code, initial work around aggregating data from multiple universities, a paper at a linked data workshop with people from several departments of the OU, presentations, etc. In other words, the work is continuing, and quite [...]
Final Product Post: Tabloid
This is the final, formal post of the LUCERO JISC project. However, be reassured, this is far from the last post. More and more activities around linked data are happening at the Open University, and this blog will carry on being a primary channel for communication and discussions around these activities.
For this post, we had [...]
What to ask linked data
Publishing linked data is becoming easier, and we now come across new RDF datasets almost everyday. One question that keeps being asked however is “what can I do with it?” More or less everybody understand the general advantages of linked data, in terms data access, integration, mash-up, etc., but getting to know and use a [...]
wayOU – mobile location tracking app using linked data
As can be seen from the few previous posts on this blog, one of our main focus at the moment is, in addition to trying to handle with all the data that we still have to process, to develop applications that demonstrate the benefit and the potential of linked data. When we obtained data from [...]
Publishing OpenLearn metadata as linked data
OpenLearn is a website giving free access to Open University course material. We especially look at the “LearningSpace” where hundreds of HTML documents, called OpenLearn Units, are made available. These units represent very valuable resources for students as they provide entry points into specific topics, useful in particular in deciding whether or not to enroll [...]
Results of the KMi Linked Data Application Competition
One of the biggest worry we had at the beginning of LUCERO was that we were promising quite a lot: we were not only going to establish the processes to expose public university data as linked data, but also to demonstrate the benefit of it through applications. Originally, we naively thought that we were going [...]
Know Thyself
One of the reasons that I became interested in Linked Data was not the opportunities it gave external developers to do cool stuff with OU data; it was the opportunities it gave us at the OU to do stuff with our own data! It’s not only difficult things that I wanted us to be able [...]
Example Queries
Some times ago, we started to collect example SPARQL queries of interest through twitter, using the hashtag #queryou. This page is here to keep track of the queries collected, and to discuss them. Please fell free to contribute by sending your query on twitter using the #queryou tag.
Courses available in Nigeria
This query lists all the [...]