Navigating among Educational Resources in the Web of Linked Data

Abstract

Linked Data seem to play a seminal role in the establishment of the Semantic Web as the next-generation Web. This is even more important for digital object collections and educational institutions that aim not only to promote and disseminate their content but also to aid its discoverability and contextualization. Having already ‘semantified’ a popular digital repository system, DSpace, in this paper we show how repository metadata can be exposed as Linked Data, thus enhancing their machine understandability and contributing to the LOD cloud. Our effort comes complete with an updated UI that allows for reasoning-based search and navigation between linked resources within and outside the scope of the digital repository.