COMÈTE is an Open Educational Resource (OER) manager for the Web of Data. It is a mature system already implemented in two institution that provides new harvesting, search and navigation capacities through a network of resources linked by RDF triples.

1. COMÈTE
Managing Resources on
the Web of data
(July 2014)
Gilbert Paquette,
Chaire de recherche CICÉ, Centre LICEF
Télé-université
Printemps de l’UNIT, 3 juin 2014
www.licef.ca/gp

2. Open Eductional Resources (OER):
A Decade of Evolution
Reuse
Adapt/
Create
Combine
Redistribute
 International Projects
 MIT, Open Courseware, MERLOT, EdNa (Australie)
 Consortium GLOBE (Ariadne, MERLOT, LORNET, …)
 Universités numériques (France)
 ISO/CEI SC36 19788, norme MLR
 IMS Global : IMS-LD, IMS-LODE (ILOX)
 IEEE-LTSC : compétences et portfolios
 Projects in Canada and Quebec
 eduSource (2002-2004), CANCORE, PALOMA
 LORNET (2004-2009)
 GTN-Québec, Normetic 1.2, Eurêka
 Q4R, BRER, REFRER
 MOOCs are large OERs

3. BRER Project www.brer.licef.ca

4. Context – BRER Project
 Start: 1st october 2010
 Duration : 3 years (ending december 2013)
 Contribution MESRT 500 K $
 Projects Partners:
• TÉLUQ-LICEF (Paloma)
• Vitrine Technologie –Éducation (Eureka)
• UNIT – France (ORI-OAI)
• GTN – Québec

5. BRER - Results
1. Portal and references for 25 000
ressources
2. COMÈTE – a mature OER
manager for the Web of data and
ISO-MLR
3. Quality for reuse process (Q4R)
and methodological guides

6. COMÈTE Referential
 Canal Savoir (Quebec)
 IDLD, Lornet (Quebec)
 CCDMD (Quebec)
 Eureka(Quebec)
 Infiressources (Quebec)
 Respel (Belgiun)
 Canal-U (France)
 UNT (France)
TOTAL
25 000
resources
+
Access to
GLOBE
840 000
resources

7. ENDREA Portal

8. CERES
Portal

9. Portail
CERES
(Comète)

10. From basic metadata…
has
description
has
title
has
contributor
is member
of
has
subject

11. To graph aggregation
.
.
.

12. Vocabulaires - équivalence

13. COMÈTE Interoperability
 Multiple metadata support, including
 Dublin Core (DC)
 IEEE 1484.12.1–2002 Learning Object Metadata (LOM)
 ISO/IEC 19788 Metadata for learning resource (MLR)
 Identity management
 for person and organization
 automatic recognition and aggregation
 Vocabulary management
 SKOS, VDEX
 DEWEY equivalencies

14. COMÈTE architecture

15. Components and Data formats
 Project portal
 queries
 thematic navigation
 collections
 Content syndication
 RSS
 Atom
 SPARQL Endpoint
 RDF/XML
 Turtle
 JSON
 Linked Data
 HTML
 RDF/XML
 OAI-PMH exposition
 MLR
 LOM
 Dublin Core
 Metadata records
 on the fly

16. COMÈTE Main assets
 Sémantic referencing on the Web of data
 Iinter-formats, Inter-vocabulaires, inter-linguistic
queries
 Queries combining actors, knowledge and content,
resource properties
 Adaptability to various metadata formats
 Use case #1 : finding OERs to build or adapt
MOOCs
 Use case #2 : Building MOOC repositories with
elaborated search capability.

17. COMÈTE
Managing Resources on
the Web of data
(July 2014)
Gilbert Paquette,
Chaire de recherche CICÉ, Centre LICEF
Télé-université
Printemps de l’UNIT, 3 juin 2014
www.licef.ca/gp