13. Why am I crying? Flickr photo by ifindkarma CC-BY Flickr photo by manu contreras CC-BY
14. Instead. . . Focus on the data , not the document, and links can go anywhere Leana daProf Alice daStudent Chem101 Course Blog CHEMISTRY 101 Thank you!
15. A Giant EduGraph Giant Global Graph Semantic Web (aka Giant Global Graph) Linked Open Data Aggregating / Exposing Higher Education Info
16. Courses Course Groups Institutions / Divisions Online Spaces Places Events / Lectures Library / Book Data Clubs / Organizations Requirements / Credentials Flickr photo by smannion CC-BY-NC-SA Image from Wikipedia GNU-FDL
21. What Will It Look Like? Taps into LOD Cloud DBpedia references for topics, people events, etc. GeoNames for places, buildings, etc. OpenLibrary for book info Domain-specific sources (MusicBrainz, Linked Movie Database, more)
22. What Will It Look Like? Uses existing vocabularies • SIOC - Semantically Interlinked Online Communities • FOAF - Friend Of A Friend • DCTERMS - Dublin Core • BIBO - Bibliographic Info • AIISO - Academic Institution Internal Structure Ontology . . . and more, plus some being developed
23. Where Will The Data Come From? Scrape existing structured data Courses and Course Groups Places People Requirements & Credentials
24. Where Will The Data Come From? Zotero (actually Bruce D'Arcus' ) likely to expose SW-friendly data in the future
25. Where Will The Data Come From? -- 13 years worth of circulation data anonymized and published as XML -- took about 3 days to RDFize it and make an Exhibit Follow lead of Univ. of Huddersfield
26. Where Will The Data Come From? Talis Project Xiphos -- Putting UK university reading lists into RDF
27. Where Will The Data Come From? Need an easy interface to relate course group data to LOD data (lookup.dbpedia.org) . . . and to relate people and course groups with online spaces . . . and to add data that isn't otherwise available