Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski1 WP3.n Arthur Stutt, Enrico Franconi, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Heidrun Allert, Crete, May 13th, 2004

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski2 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 (Wolf Siberski)  Metadata and Infrastructure (Arthur Stutt)  Co-operation Agreement (KW – RERWERSE)  Discussions: Deliverables, Open Questions and Next Steps

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski3 Scenarios for VISWE Contributions and Further Steps Robert Tolksdorf, Enrico Franconi, Arthur Stutt, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Heidrun Allert Crete, May 13th, 2004

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski4 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

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski5 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  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)

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski6 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.

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski7 Scenario 2: Shared Master Degree on “Semantic Web and Ontologies” 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.

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski8 Scenario 2: Shared Master Degree on “Semantic Web and Ontologies” 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 ( )

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski9 Scenario 2: Shared Master Degree on “Semantic Web and Ontologies” 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

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski10 Scenario 2: Shared Master Degree on “Semantic Web and Ontologies” 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.

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski11 Scenario 2: Shared Master Degree on “Semantic Web and Ontologies” 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

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski12 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).

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski13 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

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski14 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

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski15 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

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski16 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: June 2.First version of ontology: July 3.Final: August

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski17 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

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski18 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)

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski19 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

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski20 WP3.1 – Next Steps Deliverables (18 month)  D Specification of VISWE tasks and goals (as result of a requirements analysis) - (organizational discussions, repository maintenance)  D Document on organizational structure and legal form of VISWE to which all participating partners have agreed  D Memorandum 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

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski21 WP3.2 – Next Steps Deliverables (18 month)  D v1 Initial learning unit collection available v2 Extended learning unit collection available  D Report on educational events  D Report on core curricula in Ontology and Semantic Web  D Document describing M.Sc. curriculum on which all participating universities have agreed  D Memorandum of Understanding regarding curriculum and mutual course approval signed by participating universities  D Summer 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, …)

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski22 WP3.3 – Next Steps Deliverables (18 month)  D Report on the agreed metadata standard for learning units  D v1: Basic infrastructure available, provides initial learning unit collection from task v2: Complete conventional infrastructure implemented  D Prototype of advanced learning platform - Focussing on CoP  D Report 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)

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski23 Thank you

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski24 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 (‘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

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski25 Thank you

Wolfgang Nejdl, Heidrun Allert, Wolf Siberski26 Summer School (REWERSE) Invite speakers Call for proposals In which area input from KW?