Teaching Core Vocabulary Specification

25 April 2012

This version:

http://linkedscience.org/teach/ns-20130425

Latest version:

http://linkedscience.org/teach/ns

Previous version:

http://linkedscience.org/teach/ns-20130315

Revision:

Revision: 0.94

Authors:

Tomi Kauppinen (Department of Media Technology, Aalto University, Finland)

Johannes Trame (Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany)

Andres Westermann (Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany)

Contributors:

See acknowledgements.

Copyright © 2011 - 2013 Tomi Kauppinen.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. This copyright applies to the Teaching Core Vocabulary and accompanying documentation.

Teaching Core Vocabulary relies on W3C's RDF technology, an open Web standard that can be freely used by anyone.

This visual layout and structure of the specification was adapted from the Open Provenance Model Vocabulary edited by Jun Zhao, SIOC Core Ontology Specification edited by Uldis Bojars and John G. Breslin and the Provenance Vocabulary Core Ontology Specification edited by Olaf Hartig and Jun Zhao.

Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Teaching Core Vocabulary at a glance
• 3. Description about TEACH core vocabulary
• • 3.1. Evolution and extension of TEACH
  • 3.2. An example use of TEACH
• 4. Cross-reference for core TEACH classes and properties
• 5. Acknowledgements
• 6. References
• 7. Change log

1. Introduction

The Teaching Core Vocabulary is defined as a set of classes and properties.

You may browse the also using Sindice Inspector as a graph or as a list.

The XML Namespace URIs that must be used by implementations of this specification are:

• http://linkedscience.org/teach/ns# - The Namespace of the Teaching Core Vocabulary

The Core TEACH definitions presented here are written using a computer language (RDF/OWL) that makes it easy for software to process some basic facts about the terms in the Teaching Core Vocabulary, and consequently about the things described using TEACH.

3.1. Evolution and extension of TEACH

The Teaching Core Vocabulary is identified by the namespace URI "http://linkedscience.org/teach/ns#".

Revisions and extensions of TEACH are conducted through edits to the namespace document, which by convention is published on the Web at the namespace URI.

The properties and types defined here provide some basic concepts for describing information relevant when teaching a course/seminar. Other vocabularies (e.g. AIISO - Academic Institution Internal Structure Ontology, MLO - Metadata for Learning Opportunities, XCRI-CAP - XCRI Course Advertising Profile, the Dublin Core metadata terms, FOAF, BIBO - The Bibliographic Ontology, W3C Ontology for Media Resources, the Time Ontology in OWL, the Open Provenance Model Vocabulary, etc.) can also be mixed in with TEACH terms, as can local extensions. TEACH is designed to be extended.

3.2. An example use of TEACH

@prefix tisc: <http://observedchange.com/tisc/ns#>.
@prefix ical: <http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/icaltzd#>.
@prefix GE: <http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/tzd/Germany/Berlin#>.
@prefix teach: <http://linkedscience.org/teach/ns#>.
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>.
@prefix aiiso: <http://purl.org/vocab/aiiso/schema#>.
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>.
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>.
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>.

<http://data.uni-muenster.de/context/csa/course/197>
        rdf:type       aiiso:Course;
        teach:academicTerm "WS 2011/2012";
        teach:bookingNumber "142256"^^xsd:int;
        teach:courseDescription "BSc Studierenden koennen diesen Kurs im Modul [...]."@de;
        teach:courseTitle "Study Project: Open Floor Map"@en;
        teach:ects "5"^^xsd:int;
        teach:studentGroup <http://data.uni-muenster.de/context/csa/group/197>;
        teach:teacher <http://data.uni-muenster.de/context/csa/teacher/ChristianKray>;
        teach:weeklyHours "2"^^xsd:int;
        owl:sameAs <http://data.uni-muenster.de/context/csa/course/197>;
        foaf:homepage <http://data.uni-muenster.de/context/csa/course/197>;
        teach:module <http://data.uni-muenster.de/context/csa/module/123>;
        teach:studyProgram <http://data.uni-muenster.de/context/csa/studyprogram/1234>;
        teach:deadlineDraftReport "2012-06-10T23:59:59"^^xsd:dateTime;
        teach:deadlineFinalReport "2012-06-30T23:59:59"^^xsd:dateTime;
        teach:deadlineReviewReport "2012-06-20T23:59:59"^^xsd:dateTime;
        teach:notArrangedAt "2012-06-19"^^xsd:date;
        teach:grading "Grading of the seminar is as follows: 1/3 for the seminar work, 1/3 for the opponent work and presentation of the own work, 1/3 for the active participation."@en;
        teach:nextReading <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indoor_Mapping>;
        teach:arrangedAt [
                rdf:type       ical:Vevent;
                ical:byday "TH"^^xsd:string;
                ical:freq "WEEKLY"^^xsd:string;
                ical:interval "1"^^xsd:int;
                ical:summary "Study Project: Open Floor Map (weekly meeting) "@en;
                teach:room <http://data.uni-muenster.de/context/page/cris/rooms/ifgi/seminarroom>;
                teach:building <http://data.uni-muenster.de/context/page/cris/addresses/48151/WeselerStr253>;
                ical:dtend "2012-04-05T16:00:00"^^GE:tz;
                ical:dtstart "2012-06-12T14:00:00"^^GE:tz;
                tisc:locatedAt "51.941269,7.610532" ];
                ical:uid "2012-06-12T16: 95-69-1-7@lod";
        teach:arrangedAt [
                rdf:type       ical:Vevent;
                ical:byday "WE"^^xsd:string;
                ical:freq "WEEKLY"^^xsd:string;
                ical:interval "1"^^xsd:int;
                ical:summary "Study Project: Open Floor Map (Theory part) "@en;
                teach:room <http://data.uni-muenster.de/context/page/cris/rooms/ifgi/cippool>;
                teach:building <http://data.uni-muenster.de/context/page/cris/addresses/48151/WeselerStr253>;
                ical:dtend "2012-04-04T12:00:00"^^GE:tz;
                ical:dtstart "2012-06-11T10:00:00"^^GE:tz;
                tisc:locatedAt "51.941269,7.610532" ];
                ical:uid "2012-06-11T10: 95-69-1-7@lod".

5. Acknowledgement

6. References

7. Change log

• 2011-05-26: Tomi Kauppinen: initial version of the TEACH core vocabulary.
• 2011-07-05: New version of the TEACH core vocabulary, added courseDescription and courseTitle.
• 2012-06-27: New version of the TEACH core vocabulary, added module and studyProgram. Additionally the representation of the arrangedAt property was revised.
• 2013-03-15: Tomi Kauppinen added relevant classes (course, assignment, ...) as per many requests. Fixed also many bugs and issues about domain and range specifications. Identified also some issues that will be fixed in the next versions.
• 2013-04-25: Tomi Kauppinen added new property "hasTeachingMethod" inspired by an interview of Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman in "Transformation Is Possible If a University Really Cares", SCIENCE, Vol 340, April 19th, 2013: "Wieman came up with his simple, market-driven first step: Require universities to compile and release data on their teaching methods as a condition for receiving federal research funds. As students began using the data released by universities to help choose a college, he reasoned, universities would feel compelled to improve their teaching practices in order to attract the best applicants." The idea is that with the hasTeachingMethod-property universities can start publishing the teaching methods they use as Linked Open Data. Let us see which university picks this idea first.