Interlinking educational data: an experiment with GLOBE resources

With the proliferation of educational materials on the Web of Data, interlinking learning resources has become an important issue nowadays. Interlinking datasets over Linked Open Data (LOD) enables enriching, enhances navigation, facilitates casual discovery, and improves resource seeking. To this aim, many tools, approaches and frameworks have been built to discover similarities between entities on the Web of Data. In this paper we evaluate interlinking approach on a huge educational resource (GLOBE) by applying two link discovery tools (LIMES and GoogleRefine). We also report the results of linking the GLOBE to the DBpedia and Factbook datasets and list the advantage of this interlinking process.

[1]  Tim Berners-Lee,et al.  Linked Data - The Story So Far , 2009, Int. J. Semantic Web Inf. Syst..

[2]  Martin Hepp,et al.  Games with a Purpose for the Semantic Web , 2008, IEEE Intelligent Systems.

[3]  Michael Hausenblas,et al.  Scripting User Contributed Interlinking , 2008 .

[4]  Mathieu d'Aquin.  Linked Data for Open and Distance Learning , 2012 .

[5]  Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl,et al.  Combining human and computation intelligence: the case of data interlinking tools , 2012, Int. J. Metadata Semant. Ontologies.

[6]  Renée J. Miller,et al.  Semantic Link Discovery over Relational Data , 2012, Semantic Search over the Web.

[7]  Enrico Motta,et al.  Linking Data across Universities: An Integrated Video Lectures Dataset , 2011, International Semantic Web Conference.

[8]  Daniela Giordano,et al.  Linked education: interlinking educational resources and the Web of data , 2012, SAC '12.

[9]  Raphaël Troncy,et al.  Interlinking Multimedia: How to Apply Linked Data Principles to Multimedia Fragments , 2009, LDOW.

[10]  Sören Auer,et al.  LIMES - A Time-Efficient Approach for Large-Scale Link Discovery on the Web of Data , 2011, IJCAI.

[11]  Elena García Barriocanal,et al.  Navigating learning Resources through Linked Data: a preliminary Report on the Re-Design of Organic.Edunet , 2011, Linked Learning@ESWC.

[12]  Antoine Isaac,et al.  data.europeana.eu: The Europeana Linked Open Data Pilot , 2011, Dublin Core Conference.

[13]  John Domingue,et al.  Using Linked Data to Annotate and Search Educational Video Resources for Supporting Distance Learning , 2012, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.

[14]  Mateja Verlic,et al.  LODGrefine - LOD-enabled Google Refine in Action , 2012, I-SEMANTICS.

[15]  Renée J. Miller,et al.  Linkage Query Writer , 2009, Proc. VLDB Endow..

[16]  Erik Duval,et al.  On the Use of Learning Object Metadata: The GLOBE Experience , 2011, EC-TEL.