Curriculum mark-up – a presentation made at SIS/TK450 on January 17
Posted on | January 26, 2006 | Comments Off
On January 17 I held a presentation about our project on mark-up of the Swedish national curriculum for schools (or "steering documents" as we call them in Sweden). During the presentation I gave a brief introduction to metadata as well as to Semantic Web technology and the underlying view of metadata as being a growing dynamic "ecosystem" of information provided by different actors in a democratic fashion. In opposite to the (quite common) more authoritarian view, where metadata is static and provided and controlled by a few "chosen ones". In the second part of the seminar I gave an introduction to our Annotea-based approach for adding metadata descritions to the steering documents. Discussed the opportunities that the model provides as well as some of the problems. This model is described in detail in the article published at eChallenges 2005 [In English]. The curriculum mark-up project it self is described here [in Swedish] My presentation slides can be downloaded from here [in Swedish] Unfortuneatly the demo did not work since the WLAN at SIS is very secure (in other words: practically useless). This is however just a part of the WLAN-panic-epidemic, which I have noticed before [in Swedish]…