An Educational System Based on Several Ontologies

Author

Doan, Bich-Liên ; Bourda, Yolaine

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Ecole Superieure d´´Electricite

fYear

2006

fDate

5-7 July 2006

Firstpage

179

Lastpage

183

Abstract

Metadata are required for finding, exchanging, and managing learning objects. But, their semantics is not clear. Furthermore, the IEEE LOM (learning object metadata) is an IEEE standard since July 2002 but, even if it is widely used, it is not the only one standard used to describe learning objects. The use of ontologies is a key step forward for describing the semantics of information on the Web. We propose to specify the semantics of metadata by using a formal language of ontology, OWL. Furthermore, assuming that we are in an open world and in order to facilitate the exchange of learning resources with other institutions, we propose a solution based on several ontologies

Keywords

IEEE standards; computer aided instruction; formal languages; ontologies (artificial intelligence); IEEE learning object metadata; IEEE standard; OWL; World Wide Web; educational system; formal language; information semantics; learning objects; metadata semantics; ontologies; Computer science; Costs; Formal languages; Humans; Information retrieval; OWL; Ontologies; Production; Search engines; Semantic Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2006. Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kerkrade

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2632-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2006.1652399

Filename

1652399