This final presentation session by Nadeem Shabir from Talis.

Drifted off on another line of thought (sorry Nadeem), so missed the detail at the start.

Nadeem saying that the issue of linked open data is not technological change – it’s a paradigm shift. Tim Berners-Lee said “Linked Data is the Semantic Web done right and the Web done right.”

Nadeem talking about ‘design appropriation’ – like using a book to prop up a television or monitor – not something the creator of the book intended.

Nadeem going to look at two things:

• Openness of Description
• Openness of Access (not Open Access)

The Openness of Description is about agreeing on shared ways to describe things – this allows you to share, integrate, relate information.

Nadeem relating to the 8 Learning Events described by Alan in the earlier session as an ontology – would be able to use a common vocabulary to describe learning activities.

Talis has been working on ontologies and has published:

• Academic Institutions Internal Structures
• Generic Lifecycle (workflow)
• Resource List (using SIOC, BIBO, FOAF)

All these are available at www.vocab.org

I wonder if I can find time to describe Imperial using the first of these? I imagine this could be quite a bit of work…

Now Nadeem going onto ‘Openness of Access’ – this is

• anywhere
• anytime
• anyhow

Nadeem argues that this is the key to personalised learning – descriptions and access

In the ‘web of data’ you may publish or consume data – but you don’t ‘own’ it in a traditional sense.

Nadeem has written a piece for the recent copy of ‘Nodalities’ which describes this.