Title: (Semantic web) services for e-learning

Authors: David E. Millard, Karl Doody, Hugh C. Davis, Lester Gilbert, Yvonne Howard, Feng (Barry) Tao, Gary Wills

Addresses: School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. ' School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. ' School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. ' School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. ' School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. ' School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. ' School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK

Abstract: Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are becoming a popular system paradigm in e-learning and there are several efforts to create community-driven service frameworks. In this paper, we argue that these efforts could benefit if they also drew on semantic web technologies to create (semantic web) services – services that use the resources described on the semantic web. We present a demonstrator which uses three such services to search over question bank data. We show how the use of semantic web technologies not only promotes high-quality and interoperable metadata, but that it also enables reasoning rules that make developing new services easier to be declared.

Keywords: ontology; semantic web; knowledge management; reasoning; e-learning; question bank; web services; service-oriented architecture; SOA; online learning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2008.020670

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2008 Vol.4 No.2/3, pp.298 - 315

Published online: 08 Oct 2008 *

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