LUISA Learning content management system Using Innovative Semantic web services Architecture

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LUISALearning content management system Using
Innovative Semantic web services Architecture

• Contact information
• Nuria de Lama
• nuria.delama_at_atosorigin.com
• Atos ResearchInnovation
• ATOS ORIGIN SPAIN

LUISA is a European Comission FP6 funded
Specific Targeted Research Project
www.luisa-project.eu
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Index of Contents

• LUISA Overview
• What is LUISA
• Who is behind LUISA
• Why LUISA
• Outcomes
• Objectives
• Workplan
• Components and Work Packages
• Milestones
• Deliverables

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Index of Contents

• LUISA Overview
• What is LUISA
• Who is LUISA
• Why LUISA
• Outcomes
• Objectives
• Workplan
• Components and Work Packages
• Milestones
• Deliverables

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What is LUISA

• LUISA (FP6-027149) is a European Comission FP6
  funded Specific Targeted Research Project
  (STREP).
• LUISA started on March 1st, 2006 and finishes on
  June 30th, 2008.
• The overall budget is roughly 4 million euro.

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Index of Contents

• LUISA Overview
• What is LUISA
• Who is behind LUISA
• Why LUISA
• Outcomes
• Objectives
• Workplan
• Components and Work Packages
• Milestones
• Deliverables

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Who is behind LUISA

• 7 partners from 5 European countries are
  involved in the project.
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Who is behind LUISA

• Within the 7 partners
• 5 national EU states represented (Spain, U.K.,
  France, Italy, Sweden)
• Presence of world-class expertise in all the
  major segments of the work
• Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services
• e-Learning, Learning Objects and Learning Content
  Management Systems
• Industrial exploitation.
• The composition of the Consortium guarantees
  that scientific, technological and development
  objectives of the project will be met 

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Who is behind LUISA

• The consortium includes
• 2 internationally leading groups in RTD on
  Semantic Web Services
• Open University, UK
• ATOS Origin Spain
• 2 leading groups in Semantic Web for the
  e-Learning
• University of Uppsala, Sweden
• University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain
• The major european publisher of content GIUNTI,
  Italy.
• 2 users
• University Henri Poincaré, France it will
  participate in a case-study to evaluate LUISA
  tools in an academic environment testing the
  Semantic Web Services infrastructure within its
  own information global system
• EADS, France it will lead the use case study on
  applying the LUISA infrastructure within an
  industrial e-training environment to solve
  learning needs of the employees.

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Index of Contents

• LUISA Overview
• What is LUISA
• Who is behind LUISA
• Why LUISA
• Outcomes
• Objectives
• Workplan
• Components and Work Packages
• Milestones
• Deliverables

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Why LUISA

• E-Learning
• Lately, the interoperability of learning
  resources across different Learning Management
  Systems (LMS) and Learning Object Repositories
  (LOR) has considerably improved, thanks to the
  notion of learning objects as digital reusable
  pieces of learning activities and contents.

Learning Activity
Learning Content
Learning Management Systems
Learning Object Repositories
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Why LUISA

• Semantic Web technology is able to provide the
  required computational semantics for the
  automation of tasks related to learning objects
  such as selection or composition
• Semantic Web enriches data structures used for
  describing web contents
• The use of Semantic Web Services enables
  mechanization in service identification,
  configuration, comparison and combination.
• Semantic Web Services have the potential to
  change our life to a much higher degree than the
  current web has already done.

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Why LUISA

• LUISA is in charge of exploiting the advantages
  of a Semantic Web Service Architecture within the
  e-Learning environment

SWS
E-Learning
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Why LUISA

• By means of
• The development of a reference semantic
  architecture for the major challenges in the
  search, interchange and delivery of
  learning objects in a service-oriented
  context.
• The technical description of the solution in
  terms of current SWS technology
• The provision of the ontologies, facilities and
  components required to extend and enhance
  existing learning technology systems with the
  advanced capabilities provided by computational
  semantics.

SWS
E-Learning
LUISA
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Index of Contents

• LUISA Overview
• What is LUISA
• Who is behind LUISA
• Why LUISA
• Outcomes
• Objectives
• Workplan
• Components and Work Packages
• Milestones
• Deliverables

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Outcomes

• A formal framework for the discovery, selection,
  composition and negotiation of learning objects
  using a semantic service-oriented substrate
• A concrete Semantic Web Services Architecture
  realising the framework
• A learning object-oriented ontology specifically
  targeted to the delegation of tasks to software
• A new technique for the semantic, formal
  annotation of learning objects beyond the filling
  of metadata fields prescribed by standards.

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Outcomes

• Creation of relevant learning scenarios to serve
  as a blueprint for LUISA technology adoption and
  also forevaluation purposes
• Industrial Training Scenario
• Academic Learning Scenario
• The outcomes of LUISA are expected to make a
  significant contribution to the automation of
  learning technology systems beyond current
  standards, increasing the capability to locate,
  search and negotiate learning resources mediated
  by semantic tools.

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Index of Contents

• LUISA Overview
• What is LUISA
• Who is behind LUISA
• Why LUISA
• Outcomes
• Objectives
• Workplan
• Components and Work Packages
• Milestones
• Deliverables

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Objectives

• LUISA Main Goal
• To exploit the advantages of a Semantic Web
  Service Architecture in order to enrich and make
  more flexible the processes of specifying,
  discovering and composing learning needs in the
  context of Learning Management Systems and
  Learning Object Repositories
• The enhanced architecture will open new
  possibilities in the automation of learning
  object discovery, selection, composition and
  negotiation, within distributed service
  architectures seamlessly integrated through
  ontologies.

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Objectives

• To develop a Semantic Web Service-based
  Architecture for Learning Object Discovery,
  Selection, Negotiation and Composition.
• To develop Semantic Learning Object Annotation
  Techniques. Learning Objects can be effectively
  disseminated by Semantic Web Services, whose
  functional and non-functional characteristics
  need to be described. 
• To develop an Annotation Tool. Our approach
  requires the addition of semantics to learning
  objects metadata, and for this sake, we will
  further develop an authoring tool, extending
  current ones.

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Objectives

• Integration of the architecture into existing
  LCMS. The SWS infrastructure and the Annotation
  tool have to be seamlessly integrated into
  existing Learning Content Management Systems to
  exploit the advantages of widely spread systems
  in the e-learning community.
• Case study reports. The implementation of the
  architecture will be put into practice in
  real-world case studies (one in the Academic
  e-Learning and other in the Industrial
  e-Training), converting existing learning
  resources to the ontological representation,
  serving both as a proof of concept for the
  architecture in all of its scenarios, and also as
  a vehicle to analyze empirical usage findings in
  a real-world context.

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Objectives

• WSMO extension. From a methodological
  perspective, LUISA is also a major validation of
  the generic SWS infrastructure provided by other
  initiatives as WSMO, especially due to the fact
  that the domain of learning technology is
  especially metadata-intensive, since it aims at
  describing richer content structures and
  pedagogical properties. Some of the components to
  be developed under LUISA's performance are
• An extension of WSMO to deal with LOMR
  requirements.
• An extension of WSMO to support the process
  languages.

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Objectives
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Index of Contents

• LUISA Overview
• What is LUISA
• Who is behind LUISA
• Why LUISA
• Outcomes
• Objectives
• Workplan
• Components and Work Packages
• Milestones
• Deliverables

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Components and Work Packages

• LUISA Architecture in terms of components

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Components and Work Packages

• Work Packages
• Research, Technological and Innovation
  activities
• Work package 2 SWS Infraestructure
• Work package 3 LO Annotation
• Work package 4 LOMR and LOMR Integration
  Development
• Work package 5 LCMS
• Case Studies
• Work package 6 Industrial Training Use Case
• Work package 7 Academic Learning Use Case
• Exploitation and Dissemination Activities
  Workpackage 8
• Management Workpackage 1

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Components and Work Packages

• Work Package 2 Semantic Web Service
  Infraestructure
• Objectives
• To develop the concepts that allow assimilating
  SWS to LOMR
• To extend WSMO to comprise the requirements posed
  by the description of the LOMR
• To develop a SWS infraestructure adapted for the
  discovery and execution of LOMR
• To develop a SWS annotation Tool

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Components and Work Packages

• Work Package 3 Learning Object Annotation
• Objectives
• To design annotation profiles extending the idea
  of application profiles to be used for automatic
  adaption of annotation tools. The design of
  annotation profiles will encourage
• Reuse of standards and common practices
• Semantically correct expression of annotations
• An annotation tool will be developed. It will be
  configurable via annotation profiles and can be
  integrated into LUISA-enabled LCMSs.
• An standard translator will be specified and
  implemented.

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Components and Work Packages

• Work Package 4 Learning Object Management
  Repository and Learning Object Management
  Repository Integration Development
• Objectives
• To devise a general architecture for the storage
  and retrieval of learning object metadata
  repositories containing annotations represented
  in terms of ontologies.
• To devise a technical mechanism for mapping
  existing metadata repositories into semantic
  sources, thus mediating between them and the SWS
  architecture of LUISA.
• To develop a reference implementation for that
  LOMR

Learning Object Repositories
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Components and Work Packages

• Work Package 5 Learning Content Management
  System
• Objectives
• To implement the reference implementation
  prototype which allows
• To create LUISA learning objects addressing a
  wide range of pedagogical approaches and their
  associated learning activities
• To annotate the LUISA or other learning objects
  with semantically described metadata and store
  the learning objects and their metadata in the
  digital repositories
• To implement the repository interface based on
  the SWS architecture for the searching and
  retrieval of learning objects from the learning
  objects repository.

Learning Management Systems
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Components and Work Packages

• Work Packages 6 and 7 LUISA Scenarios
• Both academic and industrial worlds are
  expecting innovative services that would really
  enable easy description, retrieval, selection and
  reuse of digital learning resources in an easy
  way.
• Objectives
• To devise realistic scenarios within different
  context for use of SWS based LCMS system, where
  an actual improvement of the existing processes
  is obvious.
• There are two different scenarios
• Industrial Training Use Case
• Academic Learning Use Case

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Index of Contents

• LUISA Overview
• What is LUISA
• Who is behind LUISA
• Why LUISA
• Outcomes
• Objectives
• Workplan
• Components and Work Packages
• Milestones
• Deliverables

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Milestones
M30 End
M0 Kick-Off
LUISA Project Milestones
LUISA Project
M6
M12
M18
M27
M24

• State-of-the-art analysis and requirements (SWS
  Infraestructure, LCMS)
• WP3 Annotation Profile and Specification
• WP4 Overall architectural Specification
• WP6,7 Use cases requirements
• WP8 Dissemination Plan

• WP2 WSMO for LOMR extension Linking enhanced
  WSMO Ontology WSMO Process Language
• WP3 Annotation Profile Specification
• WP4 Integration specification Architectural
  prototype development
• WP5 Digital Management Rights
• WP6, 7 Development of domain-related ontologies
  for use cases
• WP8 Market Analysis

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Milestones
M30 End
M0 Kick-Off
LUISA Project Milestones
LUISA Project
M6
M12
M18
M27
M24

• WP2 SWS annotation and publication, discovery
  and execution requirements
• WP3 Useful annotation profiles
• WP4 Architectural Prototype development
• WP6,7 Use cases requirements for second
  prototype
• WP8 Preliminary exploitation plan

• WP2 SWS annotation and publication tool and
  discovery module implementation SWS execution
  and infrastructure
• WP3 Annotation tool
• WP4 Development of integration case
  specification
• WP5 Initial implementation prototype Digital
  Management Rights
• WP6, 7 Development of domain-related ontologies
  evaluation

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Milestones
M30 End
M0 Kick-Off
LUISA Project Milestones
LUISA Project
M6
M12
M18
M27
M24

• WP3 Standard translator
• WP4 Reference implementation development and
  evaluation
• WP5 Speficication of the standard based
  interface Final e-Learning System
• WP6,7 Final Evaluation
• WP8 Final exploitation plan

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Index of Contents

• LUISA Overview
• What is LUISA
• Who is behind LUISA
• Why LUISA
• Outcomes
• Objectives
• Workplan
• Components and Work Packages
• Milestones
• Deliverables

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Deliverables
M30 End
M0 Kick-Off
LUISA Project Deliverables

• M6

M12
M18
M27
M24

• D7.1 Requirements analysis and specifications
• D3.2 Annotation Profile specification
• D6.1 Requirements report

• D2.1 WSMO extension for LUISA - LOMR extension,
  LO linking, Process Language
• D3.2 Annotation Profile specification
• D4.2 LOMR integration specification

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Deliverables
M30 End
M0 Kick-Off
LUISA Project Deliverables

• M6

M12
M18
M27
M24

• D2.2 Service Infrastructure Requirements
  Publication, Discovery, Execution
• D6.1 Requirements report
• D6.3 Use case implementation
• D7.1 Requirements analysis and specifications
• D7.3 Use case implementation and prototyping

• D4.6 Integration use-case specification
• D5.5 Final reference implementation prototype

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Deliverables
M30 End
M0 Kick-Off
LUISA Project Deliverables
M6
M12
M18
M27
M24

• D6.3 Use case implementation
• D7.3 Use case implementation and prototyping

• D5.5 Final reference implementation prototype

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LUISALearning content management system Using
Innovative Semantic web services Architecture

• Contact information
• Nuria de Lama
• nuria.delama_at_atosorigin.com
• Atos ResearchInnovation
• ATOS ORIGIN SPAIN

LUISA is a European Comission FP6 funded
Specific Targeted Research Project
www.luisa-project.eu