Linking for learning

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5 Stars -- Who are we?

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Chris Dijkshoorn

Thomas Bosch

Uwe Stoll

Qiang LI

Daniel Garijo

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I’m Tom, I’m Cool!

Linking for learning -- Objectives

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How can the educational value of Wikipedia be raised?

How can we measure the quality of Wikipedia articles?

How can we propose meaningful related topics automatically?

How can we ease the integration of Wikipedia with other educational resources?

How can we recommend additional multimedia content?

How can we interlink Wikipedia references to the web of Linked Open Data?

How can accessibility and user experience be improved for educational use?

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Research problem

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Our Approach

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Application examples

• Calculate mean H-Index of the authors of a given Wikipedia Article

• Browser extensions showing information related wikipedia articles when browsing scientific resources (and vv.)

• Inform authors if they get referenced

• Enhance wikipedia by displaying the reference quality

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Results and Future Work Initial Dataset: 1000 Articles ~7 references per Article Speed ~800 Articles / sec

Evaluation: Measure educational value of LD-enhanced Wikipedia Articles

t = string.Template(""" wiki:${wikidoc} dc:reference wk2ld:a${i}; a foaf:Document. wk2ld:a${i} a foaf:Document; dc:title "${title}".\n""")

Thanks! Questions?

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