SemanticWeb Research

Motivation Educational Systems are gradually incorporating Semantic Web technology. The general purpose is to make the Web more understandable by machines and then generate educational systems that are more adaptable and intelligent.

As JISC has recently announced an open call of funding for a study on Semantic Web technologies in teaching and learning we thought we'd use this opportunity to provide a bit of an update on Semantic Web developments. The JISC call seeks to fund a study which looks at pragmatic aspects of the actual use of semantic applications in real world scenarios. The successful applicant will review a number of case studies of real-world teaching and learning scenarios and look at the potential for use of semantic technologies. The key question they are asking is: "Can you convince us that semantic technologies offer one potential solution to some real problems?"

a few researchers but no solid examples I know a few people (especially some professors in the teaching-oriented universities) who are working on this technology. But as far as I know, they are individual experiments and no significant examples so far that are really exciting.

Synonyms computational ontology, semantic data model, ontological engineering Definition In the context of computer and information sciences, an ontology defines a set of representational primitives with which to model a domain of knowledge or discourse. The representational primitives are typically classes (or sets), attributes (or properties), and relationships (or relations among class members). The definitions of the representational primitives include information about their meaning and constraints on their logically consistent application.

Research Topic: The Semantic Web - Reference Pages for Higher Education The semantic web is a complex and exciting technology that will change how we work in the information age, and how we interact with the Internet. To support research activity within the field of Education, this site provides dynamic links to resources around the world. Gathered here, you will find: * a vision for educational application of learning made possible with semantic web technologies, * a general reference resource for terms and definitions, * technical resources within the field of the semantic web and semantic networking, * case studies of the semantic web applied in different fields and in education, and * publications and conferences focusing on the semantic web.

The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the leading conference for research on Semantic Web topics. It is held annually and is the successor of the Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS).

ASWC 2008 will present the latest research and development of the Semantic Web and its related technologies. It will include a Research Track, a Semantic Web in Use Track, a Poster and Demonstration Track.

About the Conference The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's Web by exploiting machine-processable metadata. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and makes this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making tasks.

The International Semantic Web Conference is a major international forum at which research on all aspects of the Semantic Web is presented. The Semantic Web Science Association Web, SWSA, is the Association that organizes the academic conferences on Semantic Web technology. If you would like to host the ISWC conference please submit an application to the president of the SWSA.

Project10X has just published a new study that charts the next stage of internet evolution - Web 3.0 - and the role semantic technologies in next generation applications and business models. Entitled Semantic Wave 2008 Report: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities, this study is must reading for investors, technology developers, and enterprises in the public and private sector who want to better understand semantic technologies, the business opportunities they present, and the ways Web 3.0 will change how we use and experience the internet for pleasure and profit. The report is 400+ pages, comprehensive, well illustrated, and written to be readily understood by business and government executives as well as IT professionals. We invite you to download a free 27-page summary of this report at the following link: Semantic Wave 2008 Report: Executive Summary

The World's Foremost Symposium on the Business of Semantic Technologies. This Website Is Semantically Enabled! We are proud to announce two semantic-based conference tools: a Scheduler/Faceted Search and a Session Blog.

Meet other local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative to bring machine understanding to create "one giant database" of the web.

eLearning is fast, relevant and just-in-time learning grown from the learningrequirements of the new, dynamically changing, distributed business world. The term „Semantic Web" encompasses efforts to build a new WWW architecture that supports content with formal semantics, which enables better possibilities for searching and navigating through the cyberspace. As such, the Semantic Web represents a promising technology for realizing eLearning requirements. This paper presents an approach for implementing the eLearning scenario using Semantic Web technologies. It is primarily based on ontology-based descriptions of content, context and structure of the learning materials and benefits the providing of and accessing to the learning materials.

Select ARIES Publications Welcome to the laboratory for Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems (ARIES). The lab was founded in 1987 with the goal of deepening both research and practice in intelligent systems and how they apply to teaching and learning. Faculty, staff, and students within the laboratory contribute to numerous academic areas, such as user modeling, artificial intelligence, adaptive hypermedia, e-learning, and information visualization. The laboratory is headed by Dr. Gordon McCalla, and is funded in part by the the TeleLearning Network Centres of Excellence (1995-1999), and the LORNET NSERC Research Network (2003-Present). ARIES is one of the many laboratories within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan.

Dragan Gasevic's home page (2002-2008) Refereed International Journal Editorial, Refereed International Journal Publications, Refereed National Journal Publications

PUBLICATIONS (1999 - 2007) Journal articles, Refereed conferences articles, Monographs, Editorships, Book chapters, Refereed workshop contributions

In this paper it is presented our contribution for carrying out adaptive and intelligent Web-based Education Systems (WBES) that take into account the individual student learning requirements, by means of a holistic architecture and Framework for developing WBES. In addition, three basic modules of the proposed WBES are outlined: an Authoring tool, a Semantic Web-based Evaluation, and a Cognitive Maps-based Student Model. As well, it is stated a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) oriented to deploy reusable, accessible, durable and interoperable services. The approach enhances the Learning Technology Standard Architecture, proposed by IEEE-LTSA (Learning Technology System Architecture) [IEEE 1484.1/D9 LTSA (2001). Draft standard for learning technology - learning technology systems architecture (LTSA). New York, USA. URL: http://ieee.ltsc.org/wg1], and the Sharable Content Object Reusable Model (SCORM), claimed by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) [Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (2004). URL: http://www.adlnet.org].