LUCERO (Linking University Content for Education and Research Online — lucero-project.info) is a collaboration between KMi, the OU Library and the Faculty of Arts, working in partnership with many other parts of the OU in order to apply linked data technologies and principles to public information from the OU. Linked data relates to the principles and technologies to make data which might usually sit in dedicated repositories accessible and linkable on the Web. The aim of LUCERO is therefore to build, sustain and exploit a linked data platform exposing linked data from OU's repositories and research projects: data.open.ac.uk
In this presentation, we will introduce the technical and organisational challenges related to setting up such a platform and populating it with data from a large variety of sources (Study at the OU, ORO, OpenLearn, Podcasts, databases from research projects, etc.) More importantly, we will discuss the benefits brought by the use of linked data in this context, both internally through better access to inter-connected information, and externally, through making our data reusable by others and better connected to others. We will in particular detail some of the applications that are being developed to support OU students and researchers with their use of public data.
Presenters: Owen Stephens (Library) and Dr Mathieu D'Aquin (KMi).
Date: 4 May 2011.
Twitter hashtag: #ouTCM
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Comment 1 by Nick Freear
Comment 2 by Liam Green-Hughes
Liam Green-Hughes
11:34am 5 May 2011
I've added links to the experiments I've done with OU Linked Data (see Links section for this cloud). I need to write up some of the other things I've done with it at some point!
Comment 3 by Patricia Heffernan
Patricia Heffernan
1:40pm 5 May 2011
The session on 4th May was very informative, unfortunately I had to leave early and didn't hear about the user perspective (I have asked questions since!) Thanks v much Tricia
Comment 4 by Liz Mallett
Liz Mallett
2:00pm 5 May 2011 (Edited 2:00pm 5 May 2011)
I found the presentation entertaining and very informative. It was useful to have linked data fully explained for the lay-person and to see some practical applications of its use. Thanks!
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Nick Freear
9:57am 5 May 2011 (Edited 1:44pm 5 May 2011)
I knew a little about the LUCERO/ data.open.ac.uk project, but it was very useful to find out more.
I'm impressed with the progress that is being made with aggregating data from different OU sources, and with the applications - the former would not be much use without the latter!
We'll definitely explore what this may mean for Cloudworks.
Thanks,
Nick
PS. The slides above are a recent presentation from Mathieu - they may not be quite what he presented on 4 May (though they seem very close).