(Semantic web) services for e-learning. (9th October 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Millard, David E.; Doody, Karl; Davis, Hugh C.; Gilbert, Lester; Howard, Yvonne; Tao, Feng; Wills, Gary
• Is Part Of: International journal of knowledge and learning. Volume 4:Number 2/3(2008)
• Page Start: 298
• Page End: 315
• Publication Date: 2008-10-09
• Subjects: ontology -- semantic web -- knowledge management -- reasoning -- e-learning -- question bank -- web services -- service-oriented architecture -- SOA -- online learning; Knowledge and learning -- Periodicals; Knowledge management -- Periodicals; 306.4205
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-1009

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.