The GeoSkills Ontology

News

• [2010-03-04] the TONES ontology repository now lists GeoSkills and offers it for an OWLSight Browse
• [2010-01-26] resources of i2geo can now be browsed by subjects as well: a query for a subject expands to a query to all individuals below that subject according to the Subjects ontology (which extends the GeoSkills)
• [2010-01-20] the ontology has changed its URI! It is now http://www.inter2geo.eu/2008/ontology/GeoSkills .
• [2009-12-08] Paul Libbrecht demoed the cross-curriculum search at the Multilingual Information Access Technology Transfer Day
• [2009-12-04] Czech curriculum is linked (thanks Roman Hašek and Sarka Gergelitsova)
• [2009-11-20] partial dutch curriculum is linked, thanks to Maxim Hendriks
• [2009-11-26] curriculum texts now click cleanly (thanks to Santiago Egido)

Cross the Curricula! GeoSkills

The GeoSkills ontology is an effort at encoding the competencies, topics, and educational levels of the mathematics curriculum standards throughout Europe. Its main purpose is to be the language of annotation and query of the resources of i2geo, the intergeo platform. It is the main ingredient of it cross-curriculum search.

Use it

• CompEd: the competency editor that is be used by curriculum encoders to enrich GeoSkills
• GeoSkills.owl: the latest version of the ontology itself
  (available under the Apache Public License and creative commons attributions sharealike
• GeoSkills.pprj: the editor's settings for GeoSkills (for Protégé 3.3.1 mostly)
• GeoSkills' OWLdoc: a readable way to browse the nodes of the ontology
• i2geo: the intergeo platform whose annotations for topics, competencies, and educational-levels uses nodes of GeoSkills and the search test page
• log of reset script run every night at 2:49 CET, this includes consistency checking
• log of the indexing process

Address it

The URI of the ontology is http://www.inter2geo.eu/2008/ontology/GeoSkills . which is also a URL that is both valid for the ontology processors (which receives, when GETting it, the OWL file) as well as developers (which will receive, when letting a browser GETting it, this HTML page).

Please distribute this URL to talk about GeoSkills and not, for example, the URL of this page. It is intended to stay very long.

Read about it

• the query expansion process of the search tool is explained
• Intergeo Deliverable 2.3: Internationalized Ontology: an explanation of the rationale behind the design of GeoSkills
• Cross-Curriculum Search for Intergeo: presented at the Mathematical Knowledge Management conference 2008 (MKM'08)
• Cross curriculum search through the GeoSkills' Ontology: presented at the Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials Workshop 2008 (SE@M'08)
• Intergeo Deliverable 2.5: Curricula Categorisation into Ontology: populating the GeoSkills ontology, how far it got, how it will be done with CompEd

People speak about it

• curriculum encoders' group
• i2geo users' forum a list discussing usage of the platform where, often, remarks about annotation capabilities are talked about
• the WP2 mailing-list: the list of the work-package of the intergeo project that designs the GeoSkills ontology. It is made of consortium (core and associate) partners

Older news

• [2009-11] Spanish curriculum encoding completed for ESO
• [2009-08] first curriculum-text browsing: use it to search for resources relevant to the given curriculum section: first versions of the French Curriculum (classe de seconde, thanks to Colette Laborde, others only accessible in PDF), and of the Spanish ESO curriculum (thanks to Albert Creus-Mir)
• [2009-07-07] Cyrille Desmoulins has presented CompEd and GeoSkills at the SWEL workshop 2009 (see paper)
• [2009-06-25] The query expansion process of i2geo cross curriculum search is explained in details (Cyrille Desmoulins and Paul Libbrecht)
• [2009-03-30] German and Czech encoders' are at work
• [2009-03-09] The competency editor CompEd is now officially online (Martin Homik main developer)
• [2008-12-05] GeoSkills has 748 competencies, 403 topics, and 120 competency processes
• [2008-11-25] CompEd is now looking usable… comments on the GUI welcome!
• [2008-03-31] GeoSkills web-browsable: OWLdoc
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