Integrating Metadata Harvesting with Semantic Search

• Published in: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01 Vol. 1; pp. 869 - 875
• Main Authors: Dicheva, Darina, Dichev, Christo, Valtchev, Petko
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 09.12.2008; IEEE
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Computer science; Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Knowledge representation and reasoning; Courseware; Electronic learning; Information systems > Information retrieval; Intelligent agent; Internet; Memory management; metadata harvesting; Ontologies; ontology mapping; ontology-based courseware; Organizing; Skeleton; Theory of computation > Design and analysis of algorithms > Data structures design and analysis > Sorting and searching; Theory of computation > Logic; Vocabulary; ontology-based courseware; ontology mapping; metadata harvesting
• ISBN: 9780769534961; 0769534961
• DOI: 10.1109/WIIAT.2008.153

This paper presents an approach to increasing the reusability of online course repositories by collecting and annotating learning content using consensually agreed vocabularies. It proposes support to courseware authors focused on two aspects: (i) providing means for creating ontological structures (to be used as a skeleton for structuring course related material) and partially populate them with learning resources; (ii) assisting authors in selecting names for new concepts/topics combined with their subject identification. The proposed approach is implemented in an authoring tool extending the TM4L Editor.