1. Linking for learning
5 Stars
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2. 5 Stars -- Who are we?
Chris Dijkshoorn
Thomas Bosch
Uwe Stoll
Qiang LI
Daniel Garijo
I’m Tom,
I’m Cool!
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3. Linking for learning -- Objectives
How can the educational value of Wikipedia be raised?
 How can we measure the quality of Wikipedia articles?
 How can we propose meaningful related topics automatically?
 How can we ease the integration of Wikipedia with other
educational resources?
 How can we recommend additional multimedia content?
How can we interlink Wikipedia references to the
web of Linked Open Data?
 How can accessibility and user experience be improved for
educational use?
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4. Research problem
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6. Our Approach
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7. Application examples
• Calculate mean H-Index of the authors of a given
Wikipedia Article
• Browser extensions showing information related
wikipedia articles when browsing scientific resources
(and vv.)
• Inform authors if they get referenced
• Enhance wikipedia by displaying the reference quality
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8. Results and Future Work
Initial Dataset:
1000 Articles
~7 references per Article
Speed ~800 Articles / sec
t = string.Template(""" Evaluation:
wiki:${wikidoc} dc:reference Measure educational value
wk2ld:a${i}; of LD-enhanced Wikipedia
a foaf:Document.
Articles
wk2ld:a${i} a foaf:Document;
dc:title "${title}".n""") 8
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9. Thanks!
Questions?
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