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In an E-learning scenario, educational resources, such as course documents, videos, test-bases, courseware, and teacher information etc., are shared across different schools. DartGrid is built upon several techniques from both Semantic Web and Grid research areas, and is intended to offer a semantic grid toolkit for data integration. In this paper, a Semantic Grid for E-leaning based on DartGrid is introduced, and it provides a Semantic-based distributed infrastructure for E-learning resource sharing. We explore the essential and fundamental roles played by RDF semantics for e-learning, and implement a set of semantically enabled tools and grid services for E-learning such as semantic browser, ontology service, semantic query service, and semantic registration service.
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Tian, W., Chen, H. (2006). Towards Building a Semantic Grid for E-Learning. In: Eliassen, F., Montresor, A. (eds) Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. DAIS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4025. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11773887_10
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