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Use of Semantic Web Technologies in the Architecture of the BBC Education Online Pages

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The BBC has a rich collection of learning resources. The Knowledge and Learning Bitesize website aims to unlock the learning potential of this content for its users. To this purpose, the system employs semantic web technologies to organise the available learning resources. In this paper we describe the core data model that underlies the Knowledge and Learning website Beta (http://www.bbc.co.uk/education). The Curriculum Ontology formally describes the UK national curricula to allow users to easily discover content. We explain how the curriculum ontology supports the new version of BBC Knowledge and Learning website and discuss the challenges and benefits that such an architecture provides.

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  1. 1.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/.

  2. 2.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise.

  3. 3.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/curriculum.

  4. 4.

    https://github.com/BBC/curriculum-data.

  5. 5.

    http://education.data.gov.uk/.

  6. 6.

    http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Ontology:Ordered_List_Ontology.

  7. 7.

    More precisely, ‘GCSE’ is the qualification (Phase) but it is inferred to be a Level too.

  8. 8.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/levels/z98jmp3.

  9. 9.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts.

  10. 10.

    https://www.google.com/cse.

  11. 11.

    https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=005635636900202455771:bttbeggy8g0.

  12. 12.

    http://education.data.gov.uk/.

  13. 13.

    http://linkeduniversities.org/lu/.

  14. 14.

    http://linkedup-project.eu/.

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The authors would like to thank Ali Craigmile, Jemma Summerfield, Paul Rissen, Amaal Mohamed and Zoe Rose for their help on the design of the BBC Curriculum Ontology.

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    Eleni Mikroyannidi, Dong Liu & Robert Lee

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Mikroyannidi, E., Liu, D., Lee, R. (2016). Use of Semantic Web Technologies in the Architecture of the BBC Education Online Pages. In: Mouromtsev, D., d’Aquin, M. (eds) Open Data for Education. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9500. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30493-9_4

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