Exhibition Presentation given at European Data Forum, Athens, 19th - 20th March 2014.

1. LinkedUp – Linking Web
Data for Education Project
European Data Forum 2014

2. Presenters:
Stefan Dietze,
L3S Research Center
Marieke Guy,
Open Knowledge
Foundation
Alessandro Adamou,
Open University

3. LinkedUp Consortium

4. LinkedUp Network

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”

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http://linkedup-project.eu

7. Areas of Work
Overview
• LinkedUp Challenge
• Evaluation Framework for Open Web Data
• Open Web Data Success Stories
• Collation of datasets
• LinkedUp Catalog
• Linked Education Cloud group on the DataHub
• data.linkededucation.org
• Community building

8. LinkedUp Data Catalogue

9. Data curation & profiling
LinkedUp
Dataset Catalog
Stefan Dietze
§ Catalog
of
data
(LinkedUp
Catalog):
classifica(on
of
datasets
according
to
resource
types,
disciplines/topics,
data
quality,
accessability,
etc
§ Infrastructure
for
distributed/
federated
querying
describes
§ Which datasets are useful & trustworthy for
case XY (eg „learning about the solar
system“) ?
§ Which topics (eg „Astronomy“) are covered
by dataset X?
§ Which datasets describe/offer videos (slides,
publications, statistics etc)?

10. Stefan Dietze 26 March 2014
§ RDF dataset catalog of Linked Open Data
for learning
§ Browse, explore and query across the LOD cloud
§ Federated queries
LinkedUp Data Catalogue
h:p://data.linkededuca(on.org/linkedup/catalog/
h:p://data.linkededuca(on.org/linkedup/categories-­‐explorer

12. 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 April 2014 – October 2014

13. May –
September
2013

14. Veni Competition
Overview
• 22 entries from 12 countries
• 8 shortlisted
• Winners announced at OK Con in Geneva
• 1st Prize - Polimedia
• 2nd Prize - Globe Town
• 3rd Prize - We-Share
• People’s Choice – We-Share

15. Winner: PoliMedia
09/04/13Stefan Dietze
§ http://www.polimedia.nl
§ Stimulate and facilitate large-scale, cross-media
analysis of the coverage of political events.
§ Browsing through parliament debates, finding
related media coverage
§ Data sources: 1) newspapers 2) radio bulletins of
the Dutch National Press Agency
Mar(jn
Kleppe,
Max
Kemman,
Henri
Beunders
(Erasmus
Universiteit
Ro:erdam),
Laura
Hollink
Damir
Juric
(Vrije
Universiteit
Amsterdam),
Johan
Oomen
Jaap
Blom
(Nederlands
Ins(tuut
voor
Beeld
en
Geluid)

16. Veni Awards, OKCon, Geneva
• Live streaming of awards
• 900+ at event
• Video of awards online

17. 17
November
2013 –
May 2014

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

19. Vidi Competition
Focused Tracks
Looking for prototypes that solve a particular problem

20. Vidi Competition
Overview
• 14 entries from 12 countries
• Currently being looked at by review panel
• Assessing using evaluation framework
• Winners will be announced at ESWC in Crete, May
2014
• Prizes for open track and focused track
• People’s Choice

21. May –
October 2013
• Soon to be launched!
• Awards ceremony at ISWC, Italy,
October 2014

23. Collabora<on
with
related
EU
RTD
projects

24. Collabora<on
with
disparate
communi<es

25. http://education.okfn.org
• Part of the sustainability of the LinkedUp project
Binds together people to promote open data, open
educational resources (OER) and open educational
practices
• Mailing list, Twitter feed
• Working Group calls
Open Education Working Group

26. Open Education Handbook
http://education.okfn.org/handbook/
• A collaboratively written living web document
targeting educational practitioners and the
education community at large
• Work carried out at two booksprints in
London and Berlin
• Handbook available online in Booktype
• Recently translated to Portuguese
Looking for people to contribute!!