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An Open Architecture for Ontology-Enabled Content Management Systems: A Case Study in Managing Learning Objects

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE (OTM 2006)

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An important goal of a content management system (CMS) is to acquire and organise content from different data sources in order to answer intelligently any ad-hoc requests from users as well as from peer systems. Existing commercial CMSs address this issue by deploying structured metadata (e.g. XML) to categorise content and produce search indices. Unfortunately, these metadata are not expressive enough to represent content for sophisticated searching. This paper presents an open architecture framework and a Java-based reference implementation for Ontology-enabled Content Management System. The reference implementation uses an open-source CMS called OpenCMS, the Protégé’s OWL library, and RacerPro reasoning engine. The implemented system is a web-based management system for learning objects which were derived from the course and instructional materials used in several postgraduate taught courses. We believe that our OeCMS architecture and implementation would provide a strong platform for developing semantic web protals in general.

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11914853_71.

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  1. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, 180 Queen’s Gate, London, SW7 2AZ, U.K.

    Duc Minh Le

  2. School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, U.K.

    Lydia Lau

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Le, D.M., Lau, L. (2006). An Open Architecture for Ontology-Enabled Content Management Systems: A Case Study in Managing Learning Objects. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4275. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11914853_47

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