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Presentation by Michael Gardner, University of Essex on Resource Browser project at joint JISC CETIS EC/MDR SIG meeting 29 June 2007

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ResourceBrowser

Michael Gardner

Chimera, University of Essex

[email protected]

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Resource Browser

JISC eTools (3) Demonstrator project Builds on 2 previous tools

Delta eProfile

Available on Sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=196551

Demonstrator available at: http://chimera70.essex.ac.uk/ResourceBrowser/login.html

Project website (wiki) available at: http://chimera70.essex.ac.uk/chimerawiki/index.php/

Resource_Browser

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DELTA overview Originated:

To meet the need of allowing practitioners to share case-studies Increase the awareness of pedagogical theory associated with case-studies Grow-context around resources

Evolving into: Distributed resource-sharing Multiple resource types Extensible ontology-based search, ‘social software’

Not a resource repository per se. More than a repository:

Provides means of describing and pointing to resources located in repositories located elsewhere. Resources classified by pedagogical approach associated with them Ability to search for particular resources and related resources. Resource review mechanism to allow resources to grow in context.

Software includes Delta Web service Delta Web application OAI-PMH meta-data harvesting tool Ontologies tool

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Delta architecture

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Effective practice - mappings

Practitioner theories & models

Practitioner approach

Competence

RolesContext

Operations (teaching sequences)GenericLearningActivities

Roles

Learner activity

Teacher activity

Roles

Tools &FunctionalRequirements

Assess’t activity

spe

cify

DeriveDefines

Defines

Defines

Defines

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Agriculture*Biochemistry*Biology*Botany*Chemistry*Computer Science*Core SkillsEducationGenetics*History*Microbiology*Molecular Biology*Nutrition*Pharmacology*Physics*Psychology*Software EngineeringToxicology*Zoology*

* Imported fromWikiPedia

Additional subject ontologies in Delta (currently)

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Delta application screen example: Refine search by subject

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A toolkit that will maintain individuals personal profiles and will support the social networks and relationships that exist between users.

Achieved by using the Friend-Of-A-Friend (FOAF) vocabulary:

• People & resources described using the Resource Description Framework (RDF)

• Users will define their social networks and personal information spaces

e-Profile

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eProfile architecture

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ResourceBrowser Concept

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ResourceBrowser architecture

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RDF FOAF profile

<foaf:Person rdf:nodeID= “[email protected]” >

<!--Personal Details <foaf:firstname>John</foaf:firstname> <foaf:surname>Scott</foaf:surname> <foaf:nickname>John</foaf:nickname> <foaf:title>Mr</foaf:title> <foaf:mbox rdf:resource="mailto:[email protected]" /> <foaf:phone rdf:resource="tel:+44 123 456 7890"/> <eProfile:password>encrypted password</eProfile:password> <foaf:holdsAccount> <foaf:OnlineAccount> <foaf:accountServiceHomePage rdf:resource=”http://chimera70.essex.ac.uk/delta2” /> <foaf:accountName>[email protected]</foaf:accountName> </foaf:OnlineAccount> </foaf:holdsAccount> <foaf:img rdf:resource="http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/team/images/Chimera%20Mugshots%20013small.jpg" />

<!—My Profile <foaf:workplacehomepage rdf:resource="http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera" /> <foaf:workInfoHomepage rdf:resource="http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/team/johns.html" />

<foaf:depiction rdf:resource="http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/team/images/Chimera%20Group.jpg" /> <foaf:topic_interest>UML</foaf:topic_interest> <foaf:knows rdf:nodeID="[email protected]" />

<foaf:publications rdf:resource="http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/content/Pubs/JohnS/ papers</foaf:publications> <foaf:made> <rdf:description rdf:about=http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/content/aboutUML.html> <dc:subject>UML</dc:subject> <eProfile:type>DELTA</eProfile:type> </foaf:made> <eProfile:bookmark> <rdf:description rdf:about=http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/content/aboutUML.html> <dc:subject>UML</dc:subject> <eProfile:type>DELTA</eProfile:type> </eProfile:bookmark>

</foaf:Person>

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Future Plans: sharing desktop resources within communities

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Conclusion

ResourceBrowser demonstrates the combination of knowledge sharing and social networking tools

We have demonstrated it with Delta (as a resource repository)

No reason why it could not be linked with other (multiple) repository services eg. Jorum

Could be linked with other social networking tools eg. Elgg

A JISC knowledge sharing tool?

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Login screen

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Registration screen

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Welcome screen

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Edit Profile Screen

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Search screen

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Ontology search

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Retrieve resources

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View resource owner’s network