Constructing knowledge bases for e-learning using Protege 2000 and Web services

Author

Hogeboom, Mike ; Lin, Fuhua ; Esmahi, Larbi ; Yang, Chunsheng

Author_Institution

Athabasca Univ., Alta., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

28-30 March 2005

Firstpage

215

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to designing and developing knowledge bases in e-learning systems. We explore the use of Protege 2000 as a knowledge editor for course material, with the addition of Web service interfaces on top of it to facilitate retrieval of the content. Protege 2000 provides an extensible infrastructure and allows the easy construction of domain ontologies, customized data entry forms, and provides an API that can easily be extended by Web services for the purpose of dynamic course material creation. The use of ontology and Web services makes the knowledge bases for e-learning sharable, reusable, and interoperable with other technologies, such as .Net, which have standard Web service implementations.

Keywords

Internet; Java; application program interfaces; courseware; distance learning; information retrieval; knowledge based systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); .Net; API; Protege 2000; Web services; course material; data entry form; e-learning systems; knowledge base construction; knowledge editor; ontology; Building materials; Content based retrieval; Councils; Electronic learning; HTML; Information retrieval; Knowledge based systems; Object oriented modeling; Ontologies; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2005. AINA 2005. 19th International Conference on

ISSN

1550-445X

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2249-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AINA.2005.141

Filename

1423495