Title :
UNIVERSAL - design and implementation of a highly flexible e-market-place for learning
Author :
Brantner, Stefan ; Enzi, Thomas ; Guth, Susanne ; Neumann, Gustaf ; Simon, Bernd
Author_Institution :
INFONOVA, Austria
Abstract :
The paper illustrates the design and implementation of a highly flexible, electronic market-place for learning resources called UNIVERSAL. Integrating learning resource related data in a (semi-)automated way demands a flexible data model. The paper elaborates on components of an educational market-place model such as learning resources, agents, rights and delivery systems. The central data formats of UNIVERSAL are based on RDF. We argue that the flexibility of RDF provides a high level of adaptability to future changes in the data model and a maximum level of openness. UNIVERSAL aims at contributing to the idea of a semantic Web of universities, pursuing the vision of having data on the Web defined and linked in such a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications
Keywords :
data models; educational computing; government policies; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; information retrieval; teaching; European IST-Project; UNIVERSAL; Universal Exchange for Pan-European Higher Education; central data formats; data reuse; delivery systems; educational market-place model; flexible data model; highly flexible e-market-place; learning resource related data; semantic university Web; Authentication; Automation; Consumer electronics; Data models; Displays; Educational institutions; Engines; Europe; Resource description framework; Semantic Web;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madison, WI
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1013-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2001.943904
