Semantic Utilities and E-Learning

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Semantic Utilities and E-Learning

GREGAR, Tomáš, Tomáš PITNER, Miroslav WARCHIL, Jan MUDRÁK, Ondřej ZEZULA et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Semantic Utilities and E-Learning

Name in Czech

Sémantické utility a elektronicky podporovaná výuka

Authors

GREGAR, Tomáš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Tomáš PITNER (203 Czech Republic), Miroslav WARCHIL (203 Czech Republic), Jan MUDRÁK (203 Czech Republic), Ondřej ZEZULA (203 Czech Republic), Jakub TALAŠ (203 Czech Republic) and Igor ZEMSKÝ (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

1. vyd. Nitra, DIVAI 2010 - distance learning in applied informatics, conference proceedings, p. 67-72, 6 pp. 2010

Publisher

Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics

Country of publisher

Slovakia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

fulltext

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/10:00043975

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

ISBN

978-80-8094-691-3

Keywords (in Czech)

e-learning; sémantika; OWL; Fresnel; vizualizace; anotace

Keywords in English

e-learning; semantics; OWL; Fresnel; visualization; annotation

Abstract

V originále

The semantic web was introduced nine years ago. The description of the semantics of all web documents seems to be useful for many applications. Students (or learners more generally) create their subjective model of the transmitted knowledge, sometimes from the scratch. If the computer "knows" the document content, it could offer the suitable visualization of the issue, or help to identify its basic characteristics. The lack of user-friendly tools for acquiring, storing and utilization document semantics inflicts very low usage of semantics among non-specialized users. A great majority of the semantic-web research concerns with the theoretical issues. Developed tools stand mainly for use-case of the technology with no intended real use. That is why the SELE (Semantic e-learning) project was designed at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno. The goal of this still open project is to create a framework of light-weighted tools for document semantics processing. These tools should use the well-established standardized technology, e.g. ontology language OWL, ontology visualization language Fresnel, XSLT, SVG etc., and open-source systems to manage them (XML or RDF databases). They should also comply with processes that are already used in the e-learning. This paper describes structure of the framework and its basic processes, but also the tools, framework modules, per se. The core of the framework is the modified semantic database Sesame 2. The other modules comprise of: A) Light-weight enterprise content management system ASCMS. This system uses the service oriented architecture (SOA), and hence can be distributed. Every document is stored with basic metadata semantics and could be further semantically described, or it could be a client of the semantic-aware visualization. B) Fresnel Editor, the unique application for editing the visualization language Fresnel style sheets (in nearly-WYSIWYG way) and its sub-module capable to parse and process them. C) Heavily modified wiki of the Trac bug-tracking system. This wiki is updated to introduce semantic wiki characteristics. It adds the capabilities of annotating the wiki-page content, semantic search, project and user automatic semantic description and visualization of the semantic data. D) User friendly annotation editor and browser for semantic annotation of images based on the general multimedia ontology COMM (Core ontology for multimedia). The paper also describes the relation between the framework and learning processes of programming-centered courses at Faculty of Informatics (several courses about Java, Mark up languages) and usage of the development of some minor tools or tool modules for the learning purposes. The partial evaluation of the tools within the learning processes and the discussion of the further development are also present.

Links

MUNI/G/0121/2009, interní kód MU

Name: Sémantický e-learning

Investor: Masaryk University, Category G - development project + specific research

Citovat

GREGAR, Tomáš, Tomáš PITNER, Miroslav WARCHIL, Jan MUDRÁK, Ondřej ZEZULA, Jakub TALAŠ and Igor ZEMSKÝ. Semantic Utilities and E-Learning. In DIVAI 2010 - distance learning in applied informatics, conference proceedings. 1st ed. Nitra: Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, 2010, p. 67-72. ISBN 978-80-8094-691-3.

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GREGAR, Tomáš, Tomáš PITNER, Miroslav WARCHIL, Jan MUDRÁK, Ondřej ZEZULA, Jakub TALAŠ and Igor ZEMSKÝ. Semantic Utilities and E-Learning. In \textit{DIVAI 2010 - distance learning in applied informatics, conference proceedings}. 1st ed. Nitra: Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, 2010, p.~67-72. ISBN~978-80-8094-691-3.

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