Evangelia Mitsopoulou, St George’s University of London Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Daniela Giordano, University of Catania, Italy Stefan Dietze, Open University, UK Charalampos Bratsas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki MedBiquitous Annual Conference

 Problem ◦ Lack of standardisation mechanisms, that enable state-of-the-art of medical educational resources to be discovered, retrieved, shared and re-used across European Academic Institutionsenable state-of-the-art of medical educational resources MedBiquitous Annual Conference 2011  Solution ◦ Standardised format of description of the resources by means of metadata ◦ Metadata need to be described by state-of-the-art e-learning standards and make use of their many advantages  Semantic Web, Linked Data  Aim ◦ To improve medical & healthcare education 2

 General Characteristics  To describe core data about the resources  To describe educational aspects of the resources  To be implemented by state-of-the-art specifications MedBiquitous Annual Conference  Need to be widely used (interoperable)  Reusing existing e-learning standards  Should not reinvent the wheel  Extending e-learning standards to describe new concepts i.e. Repurposing, Companionship, Attention

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 Healthcare LOM describes medical resources Lack of interlinking Resource 1 Metadata Resource 2Metadata Resource 3Metadata Healthcare LOM compliant Serialised in XML Metadata WEB of Documents hyperlinks www MedBiquitous Annual Conference

mEducator Resource 1Metadata mEducator Resource 2 Metadata mEducator Resource 3 RDF Schema compliant Serialised in XML  RDF/XML Use Http Uri’s Metadata Data Set WEB of Data Linking Open Data Cloud Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch MedBiquitous Annual Conference

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Properties Some of them need also the defintion of Classes 5. mEducator Controlled Vocabularies

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 Standardisation format in order to enable sharing and retrieving of resources is essential  Choice of the right format (RDF/XML) will link the data of the Web. Benefits: ◦ Access existing knowledge ◦ Interoperability between resources  Shift towards an Ontology MedBiquitous Annual Conference

 Metadata scheme specification & best practises guidelines:  Metadata scheme in RDF:  Controlled Vocabularies in RDF ◦ Repurposing: ◦ Resource Type: ◦ Media Type: ◦ Educational Outcomes: ◦ Educational Level: MedBiquitous Annual Conference

Contact: Evangelia Mitsopoulou MedBiquitous Annual Conference

◦ Educational Outcomes ◦ Media Type ◦ Resource Type  Educational Practise  Professional Practise  Reference ◦ Educational Level ◦ Repurposing Types MedBiquitous Annual Conference 2011 (Tuning, Tomorrow’s Doctor, Scottisch Doctor, French Taxonomy) RDN/LTSN, Dublin Core, Healthcare LOM, MeSH 14

MedBiquitous Annual Conference sameAS MESH TermSNOMED Term Member Of OxfordUniversity was founded Is located Cardiology keywords Medical Resource John creator title educationalObjectives

Aim: To enable specialized state-of-the-art medical educational content of varying types to be discovered, retrieved, shared and re-used across European higher academic institutions. How: By implementing and evaluating two different solutions A “mashup” platform that aggregates content published in isolated Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) A federated architecture of LCMSs based on Semantic Web Services for search, interchange and delivery of learning objects Medical Educational Resources