An approach to interoperability of ontology-based educational repositories
by Darina Dicheva, Lora Aroyo
International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning (IJCEELL), Vol. 16, No. 1/2, 2006

Abstract: Web-based educational repositories aim at providing the learner with immediate, online access to a broad range of structured information and contextualised help to support efficient educational task performance. A significant effort is currently focused on bringing such systems to work together to provide better support within the context of web-based education. Our goal is to approach the problem from a rather practical perspective and propose a framework for supporting communication between existing ontology-based educational repositories to better utilise their resources. The framework allows two independent systems to share and interchange information solely through ontology-based communication without direct access to each other data stores. As a basis of the framework we define a communication ontology and propose a Concept-Based EIS Interaction Protocol (CBEIS IP) built over SAAJ-enabled Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) transport layer. We show how through communication protocols, we can realise a general modular architecture comprising components that can be shared and interchanged.

Online publication date: Fri, 03-Feb-2006

The full text of this article is only available to individual subscribers or to users at subscribing institutions.

 
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.

Pay per view:
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.

Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning (IJCEELL):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:

Username:        Password:          Forgotten your password?

Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.

If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com