Towards a Semantic Infrastructure for Learning, Education and Training?

CETIS 2007 Conference Semantics

A Semantic Infrastructure for Learning, Education and Training

by Tore HoelOslo University College/eStandardVicechair CEN/ISSS WS-LT

Slow uptake - great potentials

Why so slow?

• For organisational & semantical interoperability we need trust– Why are not vocabularies reused more often?

• RDF is easy to explain to machines

• Topic Maps is easy to explain to humans– But, it does not help much when we lack...

• Tools and demonstrators

Towards an infrastructure

http://bak.udir.no

http://bak.kuling.net

Published Subject Identifiers

• 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

• http://psi.utdanningsdirektoratet.no/math

What identity scheme is serving the Minitrue?

Kuling.netA community portal for local museums documenting their cultural heritage

Flexplearn - Dino Karabeg, UiOPolyscopic Topic Maps play the role of geographical maps

Motivation: 'information jungle'

University of Oslo Information Design INF4/3210

We can come out of the information jungle by climbing

to a top of a mountain

University of Oslo Information Design INF4/3210

University of Oslo Information Design

Polyscopic information

The scope determines the view.

Three kinds of abstraction:

• Horizontal

• Vertical

• Structural

Conclusions

• Need for some simple recommendations how to facilitate exchange of ontologies, vocabularies etc.

• Identifiers, identifiers, identifiers – how do we create the semantic hub?

• Demonstrate the tools – and make them known!

Thanks!

• Thanks to– Dino Karabeg, for the use of his slides– Tommy Nordeng, for discussions

• More info– www.estandard.no (mostly in Norwegian)– www.hoel.nu/wordpress– Contact tore.hoel at hio.no– http://bak.kuling.net