The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative aimed to help people discover useful learning resources by adding to the schema.org ontology properties to describe educational characteristics of creative works. Well, as of the release of schema draft version 1.0a a couple of weeks ago, the LRMI properties are in the official schema.org ontology.
Schema.org represents two things: 1, [...]
Over the summer I’ve done a couple of presentations about what schema.org is and how it is implemented (there are links below). Quick reminder: schema.org is a set of microdata terms (itemtypes and properties) that big search engines have agreed to support. I haven’t said much about why I think it is important, with the [...]
There were two themes running through this workshop organised by the Strategic Content Alliance: technical potential and legal barriers. An important piece of background is the Hargreaves report.
The potential of text and data mining is probably well understood in technical circles, and were well articulated by JohnMcNaught of NaCTeM. Briefly the potential lies in [...]
I’ve been testing the alpha release of CaPRéT , a tool that aids attribution and tracking of openly licensed content from web sites. According to the Caprét website.
When a user cuts and pastes text from a CaPRéT-enabled site:
The user gets the text as originally cut, and if their application supports the pasted text will also [...]
Our friends at the University of Southampton, Hugh Davis, David Millard and Thanassis Tiropanis (with whom we worked on the SemTech project and who organised a subsequent workshop) are guest editing a Special Section of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technology on Semantic Technologies for Learning and Teaching Support in Higher Education.
Call for papers (pdf) [...]
Last week I was in Southampton for the second workshop on Semantic web applications in higher education (SemHE), organised by Thanasis Tiropanis and friends from Learning Societies Lab at Southampton University. These same people had worked with CETIS on the Semantic Technologies in Learning and Teaching (SemTech) project. The themes from the meeting seemed to [...]
I keep coming back to thinking about embedding metadata into human-oriented resource descriptions web pages.
Last week I was discussing RDFa vs triple stores with Wilbert. Wilbert was making the point that publishing RDF is easier to manage, less error prone and easier on the consumer if you deal with it on its own rather than [...]
