Bootstrapping a Semantic Wiki Application for Learning Mathematics

There is an enormous amount of math resources on the web: http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk (a British site), http://www.mathe-online.at (Austrian), http://www.matheprisma. de (German), and the virtual community site http://planetmath.org, to mention a few. Of course, our research group also created content, for instance, material for learning fractions, algebra, combinatorics, and statistics. Within the European project LeActiveMath, which aims at building an effective environment of technology-enhanced learning for mathematics (see www.leactivemath. org), we developed a significant amount of high quality teaching material in the math domain of differential calculus. The cost of authoring, however, has been high as our content providers were required to write content in a particular representation language, and to complement content with metadata along ontological and pedagogical dimensions. The extra effort, however, is not without reason as the resulting semantic-rich content is exploited by ActiveMath components for personalised course generation, semantic search, and problem solving support.