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2004-05-13Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski 1

WP3.n

Arthur Stutt, Enrico Franconi, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Heidrun Allert,

Crete, May 13th, 2004


Topics

3.1 Presentation of Scenarios (Heidrun Allert, Enrico Franconi,

Arthur Stutt) 3.2

Results of Questionnaires (Wolf Siberski) Report on core curricula in Ontology and Semantic Web Summer School (Enrico Motta, Asuncion Gomez-Perez)

3.3 Presentation of EducaNext www.educanext.org (Wolf

Siberski) Metadata and Infrastructure (Arthur Stutt)

Co-operation Agreement (KW – RERWERSE) Discussions: Deliverables, Open Questions and Next Steps

http://www.educanext.org/


Scenarios for VISWE Contributions and Further

Steps

Robert Tolksdorf, Enrico Franconi, Arthur Stutt, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Heidrun Allert

Crete, May 13th, 2004


Scenario 1: Education on Semantic Web

for Professionals Target group: professionals that are concerned with the implementation of Semantic Web applications

Five sub-groups of stakeholders distinguished Software architects Project leaders Executives/Managers Technology Monitors

Possible services Detailed technical courses Low entry level information High-cost individual consulting

Possible technical support tools RDF-based RSS to propose syndication of content in the community. A (semantic) Wiki-based directory where users could put pointers

and feedbacks on those pointers, FAQS different initial directory views for the users to start browsing the

repository of learning objects


Scenario 1: Education on Semantic Web

for Professionals Response to scenario: only little concrete support at the moment synergy with WP1.1 which is considering prototypical business use cases

Contributions Learning Units: 5

OU: Learning unit for self-study FUBerlin and UPM:

• learning unit for self-study• willing to provide it as professional training

FUBerlin: Interested in sharing our experience with partners from organizing such an event for IT

professionals (The "Semantic Web Information Day": see http://swit.xml-clearinghouse.de)

offering further events to professionals in the region. NUIG DERI

would like to offer seminars and workshops in the future, no concrete commitment at the moment

USFD could possibly provide some hands-on training in the area of human language

technology for the semantic web (workshops), for programmers and developers, prefers to run courses as part of a larger workshop (ie without having to physically host

them ourselves). could also provide some consulting for individual projects (currently provide such a

service for GATE users)

http://swit.xml-clearinghouse.de/


Scenario 2: Shared Master Degree on “Semantic Web and Ontologies”

Goal development of a shared M.Sc. Program activate “shared” M.Sc courses on “Semantic Web and

Ontologies” Target group: mainly M.Sc, prob. Ph.D students Levels (Contact: Enrico Franconi)

0 -Free movers attend some course at any other university - ask for recognition

of the exams from their home university. M.Sc degree from their home university; rules of home degree pay the tuition fees of the visiting university (pure free mover) or

may have the tuition fees waived (e.g., the fees may be paid by the "Erasmus" programme).

Visiting students are granted facilities (accommodation in student halls, canteen …)

Usually already possible in most European universities.



Levels 1 -Movers under agreement

Level 0 + specific bilateral unidirectional agreements, that

guarantee: The recognition of studentship: i.e., the fees in the visiting

universities are waived, and the access to student’s facilities is granted;

The recognition of exams: the agreement contains a list of exams offered by the visiting university that are automatically recognised by the home university; this does not exclude that additional exams may be recognised at the request of the student.

Students get just the MSc degree from their home university; students should follow the rules structuring their home degree.



Levels 2 -Movers with Specialisation Diploma (“Diploma supplement”)

level 1 + co-operation agreement among some universities: thematically and structurally

consistent exchange of activities, exams, and supervisors among the participating universities is guaranteed.

MSc degree from home university; Students follow the rules structuring their home degree. In addition, students get a

certification (the specialisation diploma) from the consortium stating the attendance of this particular structured form of education.

Usually, a co-operation agreement contains:• Recognition of studentship: i.e., fees of visiting university waived, access to

student's facilities granted;• Alternative minimal paths of exams offered by the participating universities in

order to get the specialisation diploma, automatically recognised by each home university.

Specialisation diploma may be released by: • the consortium itself (e.g., the BIT School (Bozen, Innsbruck, Trento),

International Post-Graduate College Language Technology and Cognitive Systems (Saarbruecken, Edinburgh)

• an external authority (e.g., ISCA and EACL recognising the European Masters in Language and Speech)

• FUBerlin: Another example of a qualification from an external authority is thepostgraduate program from the European Consortium for Mathematics inIndustry ( www.ecmi.dk )

http://www.ecmi.dk/



Levels 3 -Double degree education

MSc degree from home university and MSc degree from the visiting university

students follow rules structuring both degrees, specified by a detailed bilateral agreement.

Double degree education: not more credits than normal students. Get 2 MSc degrees.

Bilateral agreement contains:• Recognition of studentship (fees of visiting Uni waived, access to

student's facilities granted• Alternative minimal paths of exams offered by the two universities, a

student should necessarily follow in order to get the two degrees, automatically recognised by both universities.

• The guarantee that if the rules are followed, then the student gets two degrees.

• Scheme is hard to achieve if the two universities have already established MSc programs which don't fully match (both constraining regulations, offered exams, established practice)

• Example: double degree agreement, Uni Dresden - Uni Lisbon, MSc in Computational Logic.

• Erasmus mundus



Levels 4 -Double degree education with focussed

programs level 3 + possibility of creating brand new M.Sc programmes or

streams tailored towards the minimisation of the matching problems that may arise in the bilateral agreement.



Response: f2f courses providers of teaching, student support, evaluations and hence credits. We are

also interest in making use of teaching materials.

Contributions Learning Units: 10 (+3),

Open Questions At which level should the shared MSc should occur ? (Discussion) Up to now: No aspects of distance education. Total number of students/staff being exchanged?

To be done check similarities and differences between already offered courses and

optimize the teaching effort in activating a shared MSc program. partner Universities acknowledge study and examination achievements

within the shared study program on the basis of equivalent modules, projects and the master thesis

mutual approval of courses and credit points, joint commissions for admitting students, administration of joint funds, exchange of lecturers

course curricula will be evaluated by the Kweb partners participating on the Activity 3 and in particulars those involved in WP3.1


Scenario 3: Communities of Practice

Target group relatively independent Ph.D students Researchers (self-studies)

Goal: resources to support PhD students whose research topic is the area of Semantic Web Studies Peer-group interaction, access to research material opportunities to participate in group projects also occasions on which he or she may need access to

a relatively well structured conventional distance learning course (say, in Description Logic).


Scenario 3: Communities of Practice

Response NUIG: investigate if some mandatory courses, modules,

exams, etc. could be introduced into a PhD program as well. This idea reflects the way PhD programs usually work in the US.

FUBerlin: We intend to organise a Face-2-Face meeting of PhD Students in Berlin with Semantic Web as a research topic. We could then share the results of this meeting with partners.

Contributions Learning Units: 11, for self-study OU: infrastructure (Arthur) INRIA: searching and browsing facilities


Scenario 4: Repository Usage Goal

no specific learning purpose the goal is to give all users optimal access to the available materials

regardless of their learning context. User groups (no strictly delimited target group, but user groups)

Teachers: include high-quality material developed by others into their courses.

Learners: material for self-study. Note that for advanced learners this does not necessarily mean that the learning units are designed for self-study.

Requirements Advanced search facilities (search for courses, and topics/parts of courses) learning units in widespread formats (to ease integration into other

contexts) (Preferrably) availability of editable version (Preferrably) small self-contained learning units, little dependency on

original context Co-operation with REWERSE


Scenario 4: Repository Usage Response

High support for this scenario (learning units for f2f and self study) Ontology discussion (INRIA, OU, L3S) Further requirements stated by INRIA

Contributions Learning Units: 17 INRIA

We can help engineer the ontology used in the repository We can provide and help integrate a semantic search engine for advance

searches We can provide and help integrate annotation tools for the Learning

Objects. Deliverable after 6 month: Basic infrastructure available, provides

initial learning unit collection (version 1): Semantic Web Module Repository Slides Optional background material Optional videos


Scenario 4: Repository Usage

Next Steps Splitting courses into smaller units (units of 2 to 6

hours), assigning 1 to 3 topics/keywords to it Purpose:

1. Initial seed to build an Semantic Web ontology (made up by KW and REWERSE)?

2. classification and indexing of materials, Deadlines

1. Feedback expected: June2. First version of ontology: July 3. Final: August


Scenarios – Next Steps

Next Steps - Discussion Repository Scenario - Infrastructure Metadata (Working group ‘Ontology’) Implementing a Master – implications? CoP – Implications? Professional Scenario (no focus on this within the first 12

month) Co-operation with WP industry? Meeting? Synergy/Re-use of their results? Robert Tolksdorf (Elena Paslaru) talking with Robert

Meersmann (WP industry)? Technical support, Demos, applications, workshop

Result: Mini Report


Scenarios – Next Steps Results within the next month?

Setting up Repository: EducaNext Courses, exercises, demos (tasks force ‘demos, Semantic Web’) Metadata (Working group ‘Semantic Web Studies Ontology’) Implementing a Master

Subgroup: Set up of curriculum, based on the list of courses (Enrico Franconi, Enrico Motta, …), bottom up (list what we have (12 month). Publishable ‘Semantic Web Reverence Curriculum’ (18 month),

Level 0, 1, open to go towards the ‘Diploma Supplement’ CoP

Informal working group on community support (Arthur Stutt, Heidrun Allert, Robert Tolksdorf) – Guiding question: how to support a CoP using semantic web technologies? WP 3.3

Explore synergy with WP 2.6: Exchange of research students Professional Scenario (no focus on this within the first 12 month)

Robert Tolksdorf (Elena Paslaru) talking with Robert Meersmann (WP industry)? Technical support, Demos, applications, workshop

Result: Mini Report (Tasks and Goals: deliverable VISWE after 6 month)


Scenarios – Next Steps

Results within the next month? Next meeting: 2nd week of September, Hannover (?)

(also with REWERSE E-D2) VISWE (organizational MoU) Ontologies (pre-requisite for semantic support) Summer School Master CoP infrastructure, Magpie Writing the next 18 month proposal


WP3.1 – Next Steps Deliverables (18 month)

D 3.1.1Specification of VISWE tasks and goals (as result of a requirements analysis) - (organizational discussions, repository maintenance)

D 3.1.2 Document on organizational structure and legal form of VISWE to which all participating partners have agreed

D 3.1.3Memorandum of Understanding signed by participating partners, regarding commitment to organizational structure and legal form of VISWE

Timeline After 6 months: Specification of VISWE tasks and goals (as

result of a requirements analysis) – based around scenarios (L3S, FUB, FUBerlin, OU, INRIA)

After 12 months: Agreement on organizational structure and legal form – discussion in September



D 3.2.1 v1 Initial learning unit collection availablev2 Extended learning unit collection available

D 3.2.2 Report on educational events

D 3.2.3Report on core curricula in Ontology and Semantic Web

D 3.2.4 Document describing M.Sc. curriculum on which all participating universities have agreed

D 3.2.5Memorandum of Understanding regarding curriculum and mutual course approval signed by participating universities

D 3.2.6Summer school on semantic web technologies

Timeline After 6 months:

Initial learning unit collection available - covered: EducaNext and Responses from Partners (L3S, OU) Report describing core curricula in ontology and the Semantic Web - Status Report. What is available, … (FUB, UniTN, L3S, VUA, OU, VUM, UPM, UKARL, …)

After 12 months: Report on educational events – Report on initiatives towards a Summer School + Questionnaire sent out: what took place? (OU, UPM, …)



D 3.3.1 Report on the agreed metadata standard for learning units

D 3.3.2 v1: Basic infrastructure available, provides initial learning unit collection from task 3.2.3v2: Complete conventional infrastructure implemented

D 3.3.3Prototype of advanced learning platform - Focussing on CoP

D 3.3.4Report on collaboration with IMS consortium and ProLEARN

Timeline After 6 months:

Report on the agreed meta-data standard (OU, L3S, INRIA, UniTn) Basic infrastructure available, provides initial learning unit collection (version 1) (OU, L3S)

After 12 months:Basic infrastructure available, provides initial learning unit collection (version 2) Report on collaboration IMS consortium and ProLEARN – Connection of European and US repositories (contact Eric Duval), CoLog NET (Enrico Franconi)


Thank you


Co-operation agreement: KW - REWERSE

Meeting, May 11th (Jan Maluszynski, Enrico Franconi, Norbert Eisinger, Wolfgang Nejdl, Grigoris Antoniou, Wolf Siberski, Heidrun Allert) Course Collection Summer School Buch: A Semantic Web Primer (Grigoris Antoniou, Frank

Van Harmelen) Based on scenarios 2 + 4

(‘Shared M.Sc’ and ‘Repository’) Module Repository

Learning Units collected in common repository Shared modules for ‘Semantic Web’ (KW, REWERSE (E-

D2)) Making scenarios available for REWERSE at the KW-portal


Thank you


Summer School (REWERSE)

Invite speakers Call for proposals In which area input from KW?

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