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Graph-based Tools for Creating Educational Resource: Combining Ontologies with Content Management and Database Management
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Howard Beck, Soonho Kim, and Rohit Badal
Agricultural and Biological Engineering University of Florida, USA hwb@ufl.edu
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II PGL DB Research Workshop - Orlando June 3, 2004Ontologies can provide formal knowledge representation tools for describing and organizing course content. Ontologies built on top of object databases have the capacity to store massive numbers of concepts at a fine-granularity of resolution, and together they act as a content manager with capabilities for browsing and searching in ways that are more precise than traditional systems. Graph-based tools are available that enable instructors to directly interact with the ontology and database in order to define content objects and show how the objects in a domain are interrelated. Examples in the area of agriculture, dentistry, neurology, environmental sciences, and simulation, under development at the University of Florida, will be presented.
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