The document discusses the LinkedUp project, an EU-funded initiative from 2012-2014 aimed at promoting open data in education. It links educational data from over 500 datasets containing 32 billion statements. The project leads dissemination efforts and several work areas, including a challenge for developing tools using open web data and an advisory working group working to promote open educational resources and practices through an open education handbook.
3. 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
4. Open Education Data
(Open) Educational
Resources
▪Shared via diverse APIs, semistandards, vocabularies
World
Wide
Web
Linked Open Data
▪500+ datasets, 32 billion
distinct RDF statements
From Stefan Dietze
⇒ http://linkededucation.org &
⇒ http://linkeduniversities.org
5. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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