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	Title:	Authoring adaptive educational hypermedia on the semantic desktop
	Author:	Maurice Hendrix, Alexandra Cristea, Wolfgang Nejdl
	Address:	Department of Computer Science, The University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. ' Department of Computer Science, The University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. ' L3S Research Center, University of Hannover, 30539 Hannover, Germany
	Journal:	International Journal of Learning Technology 2007 - Vol. 3, No.3  pp. 230 - 251
	Abstract:	Personalisation of information is a desired feature, but authoring and creation of adaptive hypermedia is a difficult endeavour. Especially, manual annotation is the bottleneck of such authoring. Thus it is vital to support the authoring process by reusing automatically generated metadata. Here, we show the integration of the generic AH authoring environment MOT into a semantic desktop environment, as well as its first small-scale evaluation. In this set-up, the semantic desktop environment provides the rich source of automatically generated metadata, while MOT allows enhancing this metadata manually, as needed for the authoring of an adaptive environment – here, an adaptive course.
	Keywords:	authoring; adaptive hypermedia; adaptive educational hypermedia; semantic desktop; metadata; RDF; common adaptation format; CAF; semiautomatic adding; learning technology; information personalisation.
	DOI:	10.1504/IJLT.2007.015443
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