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Semantic Technologies for the Enhancement of Case Based Learning

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Working with teachers and students in undergraduate and postgraduate courses, this project will explore the potential of the emerging ‘Semantic Web’ to support teaching in complex, controversial and rapidly-evolving fields where case based learning is the pedagogical approach of choice.

The project is one of eight currently funded by the joint ESRC and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Technology Enhanced Learning Programme, to explore the potential of the Semantic Web to support teaching and learning in complex, controversial and rapidly-evolving fields using case based learning.

The project is exploring both the nature and role of the cases around which learning is focused, and the role that emerging Semantic Web technologies and techniques can play in supporting this learning. The backend repository being built focuses on Fedora, with metadata schemas being developed to deal with a disparate range of object types and their relationships. Front ends will focus on piloting semantic web (such as Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments: SIMILE) and Web 3.0 tools developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Technology in Sydney.

Archive contribution

The Archive will lead four work packages delivering:

  • Fedora structures
  • metadata schema
  • data exemplars
  • testing or publishing and visualisation tools

Principal investigator:   Patrick Carmichael
Funder:  Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Dates:  October 2008 - September 2011
Contact:  Louise Corti
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A QUICK GUIDE TO THE ARCHIVE  

1 of 8: We provide continuous access to the UK’s largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences
2 of 8: We hold thousands of data collections for social science research and teaching, quantitative and qualitative
3 of 8: We hold the only copy of many of the UK's large national surveys charting social research back decades
4 of 8: We are an established national archive at the forefront of managing, preserving, sharing and delivering data
5 of 8: We are a collaborative organisation supporting emerging and existing creators and users of data
6 of 8: We provide best practice guidance and training in managing and sharing research data
7 of 8: You won’t be able to find your family records on our site. You should visit a genealogical site instead
8 of 8: We don’t provide ready-made statistics, but using Nesstar you can view frequencies from popular surveys

OUR SERVICES  

ESDS 
providing access to key economic and social data
RELU-DSS 
supporting rural research data management
Census.ac.uk 
providing a gateway to 1971- 2001 UK censuses
HDS 
enabling access to a range of historical resources
SDS 
enabling safe and secure remote access to data
SQB 
providing access to key survey questionnaires
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