linkedup at mozilla festival science fair
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LinkedUp Project at Mozilla Festival Science Fair, 25th October 2002, London. http://linkedup-project.eu/2013/10/27/mozfest-science-fair/TRANSCRIPT
LinkedUp MozFest Science Show
Marieke Guy PRESENTED BY
LinkedUp – Linking Web Data for Education Project
LinkedUp – Consor/um and Network L
LinkedUp Network
LinkedUp Consor/um
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
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http://linkedup-project.eu
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
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
May – September 2013
GlobeTown Open data for sustainable development
09/04/13 Stefan Dietze
§ h4p://www.globe-‐town.org/: informa;ve applica;on for sustainable development
§ Reputable open government data: SWERA renewable energy data: h4p://swera.unep.net/, UN Comtrade trade data: h4p://comtrade.un.org/, Country names and codes: h4p://opengeocode.org, OECD sta;s;cs: h4p://stats.oecd.org/, World Bank: h4p://data.worldbank.org
§ Interac;on between: environment, economy and society (cause and effect in complex systems, local vs global data)
§ Top three place at the first interna;onal #Apps4Climate compe;;on, held by the World Bank
§ h4p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Q0_Is7Lw8
Jack Townsend, Andrea Prieto-‐Vega, Richard Gomer, Will Fyson, Dom Hobson, Huw Fryer (University of Southampton, UK)
PoliMedia: exploring poli/cal debates & events
09/04/13 Stefan Dietze
§ h4p://www.polimedia.nl
§ S;mulate and facilitate large-‐scale, cross-‐media analysis of the coverage of poli/cal events.
§ Browsing through parliament debates, finding related media coverage
§ Automa;cally generated links between transcripts debates, newspaper ar/cles, including their original lay-‐out on the page, and radio bulle/ns.
§ Generated data (extracted structured knowledge from debates & media links) available as Linked Data via SPARQL (h4p://data.polimedia.nl)
§ Data sources: 1) newspapers in their original layout of the historical newspaper archive, and 2) radio bulle;ns of the Dutch Na;onal Press Agency (ANP), both located at the Dutch Na;onal Library.
§ 9000+ debates (1945 – 1995)
§ Over 3000 media links Mar;jn Kleppe, Max Kemman, Henri Beunders (Erasmus Universiteit Ro4erdam), Laura Hollink Damir Juric (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Johan Oomen Jaap Blom (Nederlands Ins;tuut voor Beeld en Geluid)
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Launch 4th November 2013
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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
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