LinkedUp are sponsors of the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), the premier international forum for the Semantic Web / Linked Data Community. 19th – 23rd October 2014 at Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy. These slides are for the exhibition stand.

1. LinkedUp at ISWC

2. Coming to an end…
• EU-funded project – Nov 2012 – October 2014
• Aim:
“push forward the exploitation and adoption of
public, open data available on the Web by
educational organisations and institutions”
• http://linkedup-project.eu

3. LinkedUp Consortium

4. http://linkedup-project.eu
http://linkedup-challenge.org
LinkedUp Web sites

5. LinkedUp Challenge
• Looking for interesting and
innovative tools and
applications that analyse and/
or integrate open web data
for educational purposes
• Aimed at anyone from
researchers and students, to
developers and businesses
• From innovative prototypes
and tools through to large-
scale deployable systems
• Creating ‘open web data
success stories’

8. May – October 2014
• 13 Shortlisted entries
• Awards ceremony at
ISWC
• 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes
Vici Competition

9. 10 Vici Shortlisted Submissions
• AGRIS: the hub for agricultural research
• Didactalia
• FLAX
• GroupMOOC
• Histropedia – The Timeline of Everything
• HyperTED: Exploring TED talks at the fragment
level
• LearnWeb-OER
• ResXplorer
• ISCOOL
• Visualizing Research Works in the Water
Resources Industry

11. LinkedUp Toolbox
• For open data competition
organisers
• Can be applied by those
organising academic or industry
competitions
• Has six sections each containing
resources: Competition
framework; Evaluation
framework; Guidance schedule;
Data; Promotion methodology;
Legal and IPR

12. LinkedUp Catalogue
• Catalogue of Web datasets
relevant to educational
applications
• Provided according to the
standard of the Web of Data
(Linked Data)
• Example data sets:
bibliographic, geospacial,
administrative, learning
analytics, event related, TED
talks
• Also available on Datahub

13. http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/catalog/

14. Evaluation Framework
• Consists of predefined
evaluation procedures and
benchmarking criteria
• Requirements include:
interdisciplinary coverage,
integration of high-quality web
data, integration with local data,
context and filtering, scalability
and performance and
multilingualism.
• Reviewed after each stage of
the challenge – resulting in a
useful tool

16. LAK Challenge & dataset
• Linked Data (including full
text) of all publications and
journals in the Learning
Analytics and Educational
Data Mining communities
• LAK Data Challenge - annual
competition
• Asks “What do analytics on
learning analytics tell us?”
• Interactive LAK Data
workshop collocated with the
LAK Conference

17. Open Education Working Group
• Brings together people and groups
interested in open education
• Wants to initiate cross-sector, cross-domain,
global activity that encompasses the various
facets of open education
• Active mailing list and Twitter feed, activities
are co-ordinated through bimonthly working
group calls
• Includes open data in education, open
educational content, open
learning and teaching practices
and open accreditation.

18. Open Education Handbook
• A collaboratively written
living web document
targeting educational
practitioners and the education
community at large
• Introduction to various open
education topics including
open education data, open
education resources, learning
and teaching practice, open
source tools and open
accreditation

19. W3C Community Group
• Open Linked Education community
• Focus point for the community to collect,
capture and adopt practices
• Brings together existing initiatives and
practices currently employed to sharing
education-related data on the web
• Includes vocabularies and best practices.
• The LinkedUp consortium will lead the
community group from Summer 2014

20. Collaboration with communities

21. Collaboration with EU RTD projects

22. Further Resources
• LinkedUp Project Website:
http://linkedup-project.eu
• LinkedUp Challenge website:
http://linkedup-challenge.org
• LinkedUp Catalogue:
http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/
catalog/
• LinkedUp Toolbox:
http://linkedup-project.eu/toolbox/
• Open Education Working Group:
http://education.okfn.org