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Analyzing hidden semantics in social bookmarking of Open Educational Resources
Minguillon, Julia · SanchezAlonso, S. [secondary] · Athanasiadis, I N. [secondary]

Published2010
Type of workProceedings Paper
ConferenceMetadata and Semantic Research
PublisherSpringer- Verlag Berlin
CountrySpain, Germany, Europe

ABSTRACT
Web 2.0 services such as social bookmarking allow users to manage and share the links they find interesting, adding their own tags for describing them. This is especially interesting in the field of open educational resources, as delicious is a simple way to bridge the institutional point of view (i.e. learning object repositories) with the individual one (i.e. personal collections), thus promoting the discovering and sharing of such resources by other users. In this paper we propose a methodology for analyzing such tags in order to discover hidden semantics (i.e. taxonomies and vocabularies) that can be used to improve descriptions of learning objects and make learning object repositories more visible and discoverable. We propose the use of a simple statistical analysis tool such as principal component analysis to discover which tags create clusters that can be semantically interpreted. We will compare the obtained results with a collection of resources related to open educational resources, in order to better understand the real needs of people searching for open educational resources.

Keywords delicious · metadata · Open Educational Resources · repositories · social bookmarking · web 2.0

Published atHeidelberger Platz 3, D-14197 Berlin
Languageen
ISBN978-3-642-16551-1
Accession numberWOS:000288484900002
URLhttp://prezi.com/ho4yhnbbivh-/analyzing-hidden-semantics-in-social-bookmarking-of-open-educational-resources/
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