Progressive Semiotic Enrichment - Designing Learning Content Metadata for Web 3.0

Lars Johnsen, Jens Jørgen Hansen

2013

Abstract

Web 3.0 allows learning content to be semantically annotated thus facilitating improved information retrieval, reuse and integration. This short paper presents a design pattern for progressively describing and annotating learning content components in Web 3.0 based on key concepts adopted from social semiotics. Furthermore, the paper exemplifies how this design pattern may be encoded using a structured data format such as RDFa Lite and a general-purpose vocabulary like schema.org. Finally, some potential benefits of this approach are briefly touched upon.

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Johnsen L. and Hansen J. (2013). Progressive Semiotic Enrichment - Designing Learning Content Metadata for Web 3.0 . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8565-53-2, pages 172-176. DOI: 10.5220/0004403801720176


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu13,
author={Lars Johnsen and Jens Jørgen Hansen},
title={Progressive Semiotic Enrichment - Designing Learning Content Metadata for Web 3.0},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2013},
pages={172-176},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004403801720176},
isbn={978-989-8565-53-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Progressive Semiotic Enrichment - Designing Learning Content Metadata for Web 3.0
SN - 978-989-8565-53-2
AU - Johnsen L.
AU - Hansen J.
PY - 2013
SP - 172
EP - 176
DO - 10.5220/0004403801720176