Paper Info
Title
Interoperability for cloud-based applications for education settings based on JSON-LD and Hydra: ontology and a generic vocabulary for mind map tools
Abstract
Innovation in technology-enhanced learning (TEL) is constantly evolving, and this includes virtual learning environments (VLE). A cloud education environment (CEE) is a VLE that uses external cloud-based (Web 2.0) tools for learning activities; those tools are loosely coupled to the VLE. To achieve a real CEE, interoperability between systems is needed to enable interaction with external tools, thus providing an enhanced learning experience. This paper will explore a semantic interoperability solution for cloud-based tools in an educational setting. It will focus on the use case of mind maps for learning activities and present a proposed generic ontology for interoperability of mind map tools. Based on the ontology, its application with the recently presented W3C approaches to JSON-LD and Hydra is introduced. It will describe a Web API for integration and interoperability. The focus of this paper is a description of the common characteristics of mind map tools, such as their resources, operations, and properties, which will create a definition of the generic vocabulary when using Hydra. Initial findings have shown that this approach will provide simple abstraction means to achieve interoperability and provides straightforward support for continuous adaptation of new features provided by cloud-based tools.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2637748.2638419
I-KNOW
Keywords
Field
DocType
rdf,design,web api,linked data,rest,hydra,vocabulary,systems and software,cloud-based educational environment,ontology,json-ld,standardization,json ld
Web API,Ontology,Virtual learning environment,World Wide Web,Computer science,Interoperability,Mind map,Semantic interoperability,JSON-LD,Cloud computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rocael Hernández Rizzardini1319.55
Christian Gütl222834.68
Hector R. Amado-Salvatierra33211.26