{"id":11,"date":"2013-06-05T15:25:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/opened\/?p=11"},"modified":"2013-06-05T15:25:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:25:38","slug":"hello-open-linked-ed-data-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/opened\/2013\/06\/05\/hello-open-linked-ed-data-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Open Linked Ed Data Community!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for participating with the Open Linked Education Data Community Group. \u00a0In going over some of our goals with esteemed colleagues at W3C, I&#8217;m told that our ambitions are unprecedented for Open Linked Data. \u00a0Curating Open Data and releasing shareable vocabularies that can be used for tagging learning resources hasn&#8217;t been done before I&#8217;m told, though it seems so obvious that I find it hard to believe. \u00a0This shall be exciting then.<\/p>\n<p>A quick update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Chris Sizemore, BBC Online Learning has agreed to be my Co-Chair.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Pearson has agreed to host the first triple store in a secured database. \u00a0I will forward the URL as soon as it is established. \u00a0We won&#8217;t include the name of Pearson on the URL, not to worry<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Chris and I would like to start out by attempting to converge and harmonize a few vocabulary sets. \u00a0We suggested merging subject vocabularies from the following:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 25.55555534362793px\">UK Dept. of Education<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 25.55555534362793px\">Pearson Higher Education subject taxonomies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 25.55555534362793px\">Open Univeristy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 25.55555534362793px\">BBC Online Learning Curriculum-based subject terms<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 15.555556297302246px;line-height: 26.666667938232422px\">The challenges here will be significant: persistant IDs, retaining links to DBpedia or Freebase, identifying differing editorial interpretations, disambiguation, etc.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We will share our progress and will come to the group to help us with each step along the way.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thank you again. \u00a0I look forward to working with you all.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Madi Solomon<\/div>\n<div>Pearson<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for participating with the Open Linked Education Data Community Group. \u00a0In going over some of our goals with esteemed colleagues at W3C, I&#8217;m told that our ambitions are unprecedented for Open Linked Data. \u00a0Curating Open Data and releasing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/opened\/2013\/06\/05\/hello-open-linked-ed-data-community\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4016,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/opened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/opened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/opened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/opened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/opened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/opened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/opened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/opened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/opened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/opened\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}