Notes: Semantic technologies in Higher Education - revisited

Notes - We hosted a workshop at Southampton this week which revisited the agendas for Semantic Technologies in Higher Education

There are many different perspectives on semantic technologies - the folks assembled represented the spectrum including

• hardline technologists who want to build and implement systems (and who are well aware that they need to talk to users)
• post grads exploring semantic technologies (novel applications and uses)
• academics looking at how semantic technologies might impact on university eco-systems

Presentations - like all the info relating to this workshop details can be found at http://www.semhe.org/

Hugh Glaser - a retired ECS academic who is now Chief Architect with Seme4 made a presentation titled "Pragmatics of Semantic Technologies in Education: Linked Data" http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21666/

included a demo of RKB explorer as a device to explore how RDF can be used, and what problems need to be resolved when considering distributed sources of linked data

CRS - co reference service find URIs->store->publish->recommend a canon

Dave Lambert - video annotation tools

the paper http://www.semhe.org/2010/files/semhe10_lambert-yu.pdf
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/member/dave-lambert

http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/member/hong-qing-yu

Hugh Davis and Chris Gutteridge


context and background from Hugh, previous research, current activities and ambitions for the university
Chris Gutteridge - account of experience, pragmatics

mentioned lots of stuff including...

From Chris Gutteridge thoughts about modelling

http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/2010/09/02/the-modeler/


areas

references/Webliography

Seme4 - http://www.seme4.com/

sameas.org

http://www.rkbexplorer.com/

http://sindice.com

lod http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

http://www.geonames.org/

http://id.loc.gov/

http://dewey.info/

http://data.open.ac.uk/

http://www.zemanta.com/

The Semantic Web, Linked and Open Data briefing paper

Date: 01 Jul 10 A briefing paper by Lorna M. Campbell and Sheila MacNeill introducing the concepts of the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, Linked and Open Data.
Semantic Technologies