LinkedUp Project at Mozilla Festival Science Fair, 25th October 2002, London. http://linkedup-project.eu/2013/10/27/mozfest-science-fair/

1. MozFest Science Show
LinkedUp
PRESENTED BY
Marieke Guy

2. LinkedUp – Linking Web Data
for Education Project

3. L
LinkedUp
–
Consor/um
and
Network
LinkedUp
Network
LinkedUp
Consor/um

4. LinkedUp Project
Linking data for Education
● EU Project from November 2012 - November 2014
● FP7 Support Action which “pushes forward the
exploitation and adoption of public, open data
available on the Web, in particular by educational
organisations and institutions”
● Open Knowledge Foundation leading on
dissemination

5. http://linkedup-project.eu
Stefan Dietze
6 November 2013 5

6. Areas of Work
Overview
• LinkedUp Challenge
• Open Web Data Success Stories
• Collation of datasets
• LinkedUp Catalog
• Linked Education Cloud group on the DataHub
• data.linkededucation.org
• Evaluation Framework for Open Web Data
Applications
• Technology Transfer in the Education Sector

8. LinkedUp Challenge
Overview
• 3 competitions: Veni, Vidi, Vici
• “We’re inviting you to design and build innovative
and robust prototypes and demos for tools that
analyse and/or integrate open web data for
educational purposes”
• People’s Choice
• Veni Competition June 2013 – September 2013
• Vidi Competition November 2013 – May 2014
• Vici Competition June 2014 – October 2014

9. May –
September
2013

10. GlobeTown
Open
data
for
sustainable
development
§ h4p://www.globe-­‐town.org/:
informa;ve
applica;on
for
sustainable
development
§ Reputable
open
government
data:
SWERA
renewable
energy
data:
h4p://swera.unep.net/,
UN
Comtrade
trade
data:
h4p://comtrade.un.org/,
Country
names
and
codes:
h4p://opengeocode.org,
OECD
sta;s;cs:
h4p://stats.oecd.org/,
World
Bank:
h4p://data.worldbank.org
§ Interac;on
between:
environment,
economy
and
society
(cause
and
effect
in
complex
systems,
local
vs
global
data)
§ Top
three
place
at
the
first
interna;onal
#Apps4Climate
compe;;on,
held
by
the
World
Bank
§ h4p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Q0_Is7Lw8
Jack
Townsend,
Andrea
Prieto-­‐Vega,
Richard
Gomer,
Will
Fyson,
Stefan Dietze
Dom
Hobson,
Huw
Fryer
(University
of
09/04/13
Southampton,
UK)

11. PoliMedia:
exploring
poli/cal
debates
&
events
§
h4p://www.polimedia.nl
§
S;mulate
and
facilitate
large-­‐scale,
cross-­‐media
analysis
of
the
coverage
of
poli/cal
events.
§
Browsing
through
parliament
debates,
finding
related
media
coverage
§
Automa;cally
generated
links
between
transcripts
debates,
newspaper
ar/cles,
including
their
original
lay-­‐out
on
the
page,
and
radio
bulle/ns.
§
Generated
data
(extracted
structured
knowledge
from
debates
&
media
links)
available
as
Linked
Data
via
SPARQL
(
h4p://data.polimedia.nl)
§
Data
sources:
1)
newspapers
in
their
original
layout
of
the
historical
newspaper
archive,
and
2)
radio
bulle;ns
of
the
Dutch
Na;onal
Press
Agency
(ANP),
both
located
at
the
Dutch
Na;onal
Library.
§
9000+
debates
(1945
–
1995)
§
Over
3000
media
links
Mar;jn
Kleppe,
Max
Kemman,
Henri
Beunders
(Erasmus
Universiteit
Ro4erdam),
Laura
Hollink
Damir
Juric
(Vrije
Universiteit
Amsterdam),
Stefan Dietze
09/04/13
Johan
Oomen
Jaap
Blom
(Nederlands
Ins;tuut
voor
Beeld
en
Geluid)

12. Launch 4th
November
2013
12

13. http://bit.ly/linkedup-vidi-video
13

15. Working Group
Overview
• Part of the sustainability of the LinkedUp project
• Binds together people to promote open data, open
educational resources (OER) and open educational
practices
• First activity: Writing the Open Education Handbook
• Mailing list, Twitter feed, Hopefully calls - soonish
• http://education.okfn.org

16. Open Education Handbook
Overview
• One of first activities of Working Group
• Also deliverable for LinkedUp Project
• First version just been delivered
• Second version October 2014
• First version collaboratively authored at London
Booksprint
• In process of moving to Booktype
• Second Booksprint on 22nd November in Berlin
• Will be at Wikimedia Deutschland Offices