Building rich, semantic descriptions of learning activities to facilitate reuse in digital libraries

@article{RefWorks:23, abstract = {Abstract This paper describes efforts to extend educational descriptions of learning objects to enable semantic search for suitable resources held within digital libraries and cyberinfrastructure, and describes some further advantages that accrue from the use of formal description languages (ontologies) to describe both pedagogy and domain content. These advantages include: semantic browsing and visualization of learning object contents, advanced search capabilities linking to several different online collections, easy extension of learning objects with external content added by learners and educators, and utilization of the many rich models of education and educational domains now available as ontologies. As well as conceptual justifications and descriptions of our work, we provide examples throughout to concretize the ideas presented, using learning objects developed for college-level education in geography and the geosciences. We conclude with some thoughts on the further possibilities that arise from the application of detailed semantics, and associated reasoning, in the pursuit of genuinely reusable educational content that integrates more closely with community research activities such as exemplified by e-science.}, author = {Gahegan, Mark and Agrawal, Ritesh and Banchuen, Tawan and Dibiase, David }, citeulike-article-id = {2056168}, comment = {M3: 10.1007/s00799-007-0021-x}, journal = {International Journal on Digital Libraries}, keywords = {e-science}, month = {October/0February}, number = {1}, pages = {81--97}, posted-at = {2007-12-04 08:39:06}, priority = {2}, title = {Building rich, semantic descriptions of learning activities to facilitate reuse in digital libraries}, volume = {7}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - RefWorks:23 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2056168 TI - Building rich, semantic descriptions of learning activities to facilitate reuse in digital libraries JF - International Journal on Digital Libraries VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 81 EP - 97 N2 - Abstract This paper describes efforts to extend educational descriptions of learning objects to enable semantic search for suitable resources held within digital libraries and cyberinfrastructure, and describes some further advantages that accrue from the use of formal description languages (ontologies) to describe both pedagogy and domain content. These advantages include: semantic browsing and visualization of learning object contents, advanced search capabilities linking to several different online collections, easy extension of learning objects with external content added by learners and educators, and utilization of the many rich models of education and educational domains now available as ontologies. As well as conceptual justifications and descriptions of our work, we provide examples throughout to concretize the ideas presented, using learning objects developed for college-level education in geography and the geosciences. We conclude with some thoughts on the further possibilities that arise from the application of detailed semantics, and associated reasoning, in the pursuit of genuinely reusable educational content that integrates more closely with community research activities such as exemplified by e-science. KW - e-science N1 - M3: 10.1007/s00799-007-0021-x AU - Gahegan, Mark AU - Agrawal, Ritesh AU - Banchuen, Tawan AU - Dibiase, David PY - 2007/10/02// ER -