George Bradford's List: SemanticWeb CaseStudies

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References to papers on the topic of the semantic web and education (Brazil).

Motivation

Educational Systems are gradually incorporating Semantic Web technology. The general purpose is to make the Web more understandable by machines and then generate educational systems that are more adaptable and intelligent.

Judicial Arraignment Calendar (JAC) provides complete and accurate information to law enforcement booking agents regarding the criminal and civil history of sexual offenders / predators at the time of booking. Further, JAC automatically pushes this information to a Dashboard that acts as a judge’s Arraignment Calendaring System, ensuring judges receive crucial and timely notification of a suspect’s sexual offender/predator status and history, warrants, probation status, and other state statutes regarding known felons.

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Bo, you mainly deal with the application of semantic technologies in medicine and life sciences. What is your motivation to do this? What fascinates you about this field of research?

Looking back from this point in time, I cannot help to ask myself: while information and communication technologies (ICT) have achieved incredible advances in the last decade or so and have been successfully applied in numerous fields to improve the quality of our everyday life, why do we still find old fashioned services dominant in public health care? Have we, as computer scientists or IT professionals, done enough in the so-called semantic web (SW) era to make patients suffer less and to make medical doctors’ lives easier?

As JISC has recently announced an open call of funding for a study on Semantic Web technologies in teaching and learning we thought we’d use this opportunity to provide a bit of an update on Semantic Web developments.

The JISC call seeks to fund a study which looks at pragmatic aspects of the actual use of semantic applications in real world scenarios. The successful applicant will review a number of case studies of real-world teaching and learning scenarios and look at the potential for use of semantic technologies. The key question they are asking is: “Can you convince us that semantic technologies offer one potential solution to some real problems?”

a few researchers but no solid examples
I know a few people (especially some professors in the
teaching-oriented universities) who are working on
this technology. But as far as I know, they are
individual experiments and no significant examples so
far that are really exciting.