Porting Totuba MySQL data to RDF

In the last post, I talked about our goal: to represent our course data as Linked Data. It is an ongoing process; here is a description of our first step, the “conversion” of Totuba’s MySQL data into RDF.
One good starting point for how to proceed when generating Linked Data is “How to Publish Linked Data [...]

First steps towards Linked Course Data

Totuba has collected an impressive amount of data about courses in China, for Chinese (Mandarin), Business Management and others. It is not just a copy of some data found in the Web, but has been carefully selected and processed to allow our users to compare courses and quickly find the one course that meets their [...]

Paper accepted: Opportunities for AI in Intelligent Web-based Technology-Supported Learning

A paper that takes the work that we are doing at Totuba as an example of the power of the Web 2.0 and Semantic Web was accepted at AICI’09, the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence. The conference will take place in Shanghai, 7./8. November 2009.
Here is the abstract:
The Web is still [...]

Research topics at Totuba

I am involved in two major research projects here at Totuba, and in the following posts, I will present these in more detail. The first one is the Totuba Toolkit, a set of tools that make life easier for learners and researchers. The toolkit consists of the following components:

The Totuba Research Assistant helps students to [...]