On National Teacher Day, meet the 2024-25 Kenan Fellows
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1. Semantic Web technology; Applied in research
and education
John Doove, SURF
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2. Outline
• Mini intro on SURF
• An example of earlier work with Semantic Web technologies
in the SURFshare program: Enhanced Publications
- What?
- Why?
- How?
• Crossover to Education: Enhanced Weblectures
• Future Possibilities for Learning Analytics
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3. SURF: ICT innovation by and for higher
education and research
Research universities, universities of
applied sciences, and research institutions
work together in SURF, in order to
• Improve the quality of research and
education
• By creating pioneering ICT innovations
For the past 25 years the Dutch higher
education and research institutions have
been collaborating on ICT innovation
projects that go beyond what is possible
at individual institutions.
4. SURF
4 year Plan
Collaboration fee
X M€
Innovation grants/calls
Government/Europe
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5. SURF organisation
SURF
NWO
IT and Research
IT and Eduataion
IT and Organisation
SURFnet SURFmarket SURFshare
e-src
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7. SURFshare
SURFshare-programma 2007-2011
1. Enhanced Publications
2. Collaboratories (Virtual Research Environments)
3. Quality and Impact of Open Access Publications
4. Architecture and Infrastructure
5. Knowledge Dissemination for Universities for applied sciences
6. Access to Research Data
7. SURFshare Community Management
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8. Enhanced Publications (EP)
An enhanced publication is a scholarly publication –
usually a full text – that has been enhanced with
additional (supplementary)
materials
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9. Enhanced Publications
Publications combined with research data
• Improve interpretation, reproduction and verification
• Promote available data
• Browseable network of related items
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11. 2011 Call “Maken van
Verrijkte Publicaties”
Users make their own
Enhanced
Publications ….
With a little help
Tender
Specs Projecten
Evaluatie
Second round of
Tender Tenders; User Centric
Specs Projecten
Evaluatie
First round of Tenders; Does it
Tender work at the Universities/institutes?
Specs Projecten
Evaluatie
DRIVER II; what is it , Does
it work technically?
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12. Tender Projects (consecutive rounds)
• First: a basic understanding of the background and
techniques including demonstrator
• Second: experimented with ‘real life’ publications to test if
the concept was usable (First round of Tenders (projects
‘Samen in Delen’ and ‘CORF/OA+’)
• Third: Decision to put this into practice; focussing on the
user perspective
see video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_KJTsr1fys)
• Final: Researchers make their own Enhanced Publications
see video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHI4J94YUUk
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13. Proof of Concept: Driver
Demonstrator
• …relationships between objects (RDF, OAI-ORE).
http://driver2.dans.knaw.nl/demonstrator/html/in
dex.html
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22. Criteria for SURF EP
Datamodel (ORE Application Profile):
http://wiki.surffoundation.nl/display/vp/Resource+Maps+in
+RDF+XML
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23. Different Tools for creating Enhanced
Publications (EP)
Relationships
between Rich Journal
Weblogs &
various Internet articles &
research supl. mat.
Publications supl. mat.
objects
ESCAPE Open Word-
http://code.google Xpos’re Journal press
.com/p/surf-
escape/ http://xposr System http://wordpress.
org/extend/plugin
http://wiki.surf.nl/
e.nl/ display/vp/Enhanc
s/enhanced-
publication/
ed+Journals+Mad
e+Easy+(EJME)
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24. EP EP
InContext visualisation
www.surffoundation.nl/InContex
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29. Cross-over to Education - Weblectures
• Students are shown the resources mentioned during a
weblecture
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30. • As provided by teacher through an easy to use tool…
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31. • Now, since in the backrgound these relationships are stored
as RDFtriples, the same resources are also presented like
this:
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32. And finally the link to Learning Analytics
• Which allows for tracking the students behaviour when
exploring new resources and analyze which kind of
relationships (or authors or subjects) are more populair
• Which allows for recommender services
• Which allows for…?
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33. Many thanks for your atttention!
More info?
Doove@surf.nl
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