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An ontology-based system to represent and support students' navigation of philosophical resources
This event took place on Wednesday 22 November 2006 at 11:30

 
Michele Pasin KMi, The Open University

Philosophy is one of the fields of study where abstract entities (such as "self", "mind" or "good") constitute the core of what is treated. Although some work exists that tries to model mental content (e.g. "ideas") using formal semantics, modeling abstract notions is a particularly difficult task. In this talk, we describe our approach to modelling some basic abstract entities in philosophy within an e-learning scenario. Here we have taken the perspective of a teacher trying to organize his/her learning material about philosophy, with respect to its content, in order to facilitate students' understanding of the subject. Given this context, we introduce an ontology based system to support the annotation of philosophical material, and the navigation of the same, according to content-relevant narrative pathways. We show how such formalization can be related to other existing ontologies, and how different levels of abstraction can be used to provide crossways and to construct curricula, which extend normal textbooks capabilities.

 
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Future Internet
With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Within Japan, USA and Europe major new initiatives have begun in the area.

To succeed the Future Internet will need to address a number of cross-cutting challenges including:

  • Scalability in the face of peer-to-peer traffic, decentralisation, and increased openness

  • Trust when government, medical, financial, personal data are increasingly trusted to the cloud, and middleware will increasingly use dynamic service selection

  • Interoperability of semantic data and metadata, and of services which will be dynamically orchestrated

  • Pervasive usability for users of mobile devices, different languages, cultures and physical abilities

  • Mobility for users who expect a seamless experience across spaces, devices, and velocities