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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-019-11-1543</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23629</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>H.3 - INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL</subject>
          <subject>H.4 - INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS</subject>
          <subject>H.5 - INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (e.g.</subject>
          <subject> HCI)</subject>
          <subject>M.1 - KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES</subject>
          <subject>M.4 - KNOWLEDGE MODELING</subject>
          <subject>M.7 - KNOWLEDGE RETRIEVAL</subject>
          <subject>M.8 - KNOWLEDGE REUSE</subject>
          <subject>M.9 - KNOWLEDGE VALUATION</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Socio-semantic Integration of Educational Resources - the Case of the mEducator Project</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Dietze</surname>
            <given-names>Stefan</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">dietze@l3s.de</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Kaldoudi</surname>
            <given-names>Eleni</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Dovrolis</surname>
            <given-names>Nikolas</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Giordano</surname>
            <given-names>Daniela</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Spampinato</surname>
            <given-names>Concetto</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Hendrix</surname>
            <given-names>Maurice</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A4">4</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Protopsaltis</surname>
            <given-names>Aristidis</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A4">4</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Taibi</surname>
            <given-names>Davide</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A5">5</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Yu</surname>
            <given-names>Hong Qing</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A6">6</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Leibniz University, Hanover, Germany</addr-line>
        <institution>Leibniz University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Hanover</addr-line>
        <country>Germany</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupoli, Greece</addr-line>
        <institution>Democritus University of Thrace</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Alexandroupoli</addr-line>
        <country>Greece</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">University of Catania, Catania, Italy</addr-line>
        <institution>University of Catania</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Catania</addr-line>
        <country>Italy</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A4">
        <label>4</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom</addr-line>
        <institution>Coventry University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Coventry</addr-line>
        <country>United Kingdom</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A5">
        <label>5</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Italian National Research Council, Palermo, Italy</addr-line>
        <institution>Italian National Research Council</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Palermo</addr-line>
        <country>Italy</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A6">
        <label>6</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom</addr-line>
        <institution>The Open University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Milton Keynes</addr-line>
        <country>United Kingdom</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Stefan Dietze (<email xlink:type="simple">dietze@l3s.de</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>06</month>
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>19</volume>
      <issue>11</issue>
      <fpage>1543</fpage>
      <lpage>1569</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/C7167BC0-4665-5DE1-AC5C-534C7D7AD707">C7167BC0-4665-5DE1-AC5C-534C7D7AD707</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5505725">5505725</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>12</month>
          <year>2012</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>05</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Stefan Dietze, Eleni Kaldoudi, Nikolas Dovrolis, Daniela Giordano, Concetto Spampinato, Maurice Hendrix, Aristidis Protopsaltis, Davide Taibi, Hong Qing Yu</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Research in technology-enhanced learning (TEL) throughout the last decade has largely focused on sharing and reusing educational resources and data. This effort has led to a fragmented landscape of competing metadata schemas, such as IEEE LOM or ADL SCORM, and interface mechanisms, such as OAI-PMH, SQI and REST-ful services in general. More recently, semantic technologies were taken into account to improve interoperability. However, so far Web-scale integration of resources is not facilitated, mainly due to the lack of take-up of shared principles, datasets and schemas. On the other hand, the Linked Data approach has emerged as the de facto standard for sharing data on the Web and is fundamentally based on established W3C standards. This paper presents results of the European Commission-funded project mEducator, which exploits Linked Data principles for (1) semantic integration and (2) social interconnecting of educational data, resources and actors. We describe a general approach to exploit the wealth of already existing educational data on the Web by allowing its exposure as Linked Data and by taking into account automated enrichment and interlinking techniques to provide a rich and well-interlinked graph for the educational domain. Additionally, the paper presents an evaluation of our work with respect to a set of socio-semantic dimensions. Experimental results demonstrate improved interoperability and retrievability of the resulting resource descriptions as part of an interlinked resource graph.</p>
      </abstract>
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