Linked Open Data and Educational Content How could linked data enhance the content of the French educational portal "e-sidoc" for "CANOPE Network" users
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Abstract
Educational data is in increasing demand by web users, especially students and high schools teachers. In this framework, the French publisher "CANOPE Network" for high school and secondary educational content had launched the initiative of using linked data technologies within its educational portal "e-sidoc". Enhancing its digital contents by linking them to a new datasets, stemmed from authentic databases and cultural institutions, trying to worth the interest of the CANOPE patrons and web users, promotes the richness of "e-sidoc" datasets to academic, governmental and cultural institutions, are the major targets of this project. If "e-sidoc" is the wealthiest educational portal in France, integrating many several digital contents and developing new applications for 6500 high schools portal and 9000 teachers, why should CANOPE Network includes more content and look for the enrichment of its datasets? If CANOPE intends the enhancement of "e-sidoc" that means a lack of visibility of the portal content portal? To get more information about the topic we had interviewed three libraries software consultants, two digital content publishers, one museum and government portal professionals and the project managers of CANOPE Network. The notified statement is that besides the richness of "e-sidoc" content, patrons often look after a new datasets such as Gallica,Dbpedia,book trailers, which may reflects an insatisfaction for the current portal content. This attitude pushed CANOPE to enrich and enhance its datasets.