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 [...]
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We are Building a Team!
Three posts on Linked Data at the Open University
Anybody how would monitor the job vacancies page on the KMi website can see that there are very exciting news coming up: we are hiring a whole team to take care of different aspects of Linked Open Data, at the Open University and beyond. This is exciting [...]
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 [...]
ROLE Widget Consumes Linked Data
This is a guest post by Alexander Mikroyannidis, a researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University, discussing the use of http://data.open.ac.uk to identify related material to OpenLearn units within a Moodle block.
The winning application of the KMi Linked Data Application Competition has attracted the interest of the ROLE project (Responsive Open Learning [...]
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 [...]
Introducing Lucero
Having made great progress with Lucero in October, with the launch of http://data.open.ac.uk, and the publication of our first data sets as Linked Data, we now have something to start talking about and showing to people. We’ve used Twitter extensively for our first wave of dissemination, including the first announcement of data available at http://data.open.ac.uk [...]
First version of data.open.ac.uk
LUCERO is all about making University wide resources available to everyone in an open, linked data approach. We are building the technical and organisational infrastructure for institutional repositories and research projects to expose their data on the Web, as linked data. It is therefore natural for the interface to this data, the SPARQL endpoint and [...]
Hello World!
And Welcome to the LUCERO project!
As you probably have noticed, this is not exactly the first post on this blog. As you can see from the about page, LUCERO is a JISC funded project and JISC encourage us to use the blog of the project also as a reporting tool. The 7 first posts therefore [...]