A Linked Data Approach for Enriching Emerging Learning Objects with Contextual Metadata

The latest evolution of mobile technologies has increased the possibility for users to generate digital content at any location and time. In this paper, we present our thoughts related to the ability to enhance digital content that emerges when mobile devices are used to support different learning activities. We believe that these emerging learning objects should be enriched with contextual characteristics in a machine interoperable and interpretable manner in order to preserve the meaning, or semantics, of those features. There a number of approaches to tackle this problem but we have chosen to focus on Linked Data as it seems to be a promising solution for enriching these kinds of emerging learning objects with contextual metadata.