Rails2 Seminar

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Rails2 Seminar

• Educational Impact of Semantic Web Technology
• The Implementation of an Online Core Concept
  Contemporary Thesaurus

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Structure of the Presentation

• Background to the Research
• Normal WWW Searching
• Core Concept Searching
• Core Concept Thesaurus Development
• Core Concept Thesaurus Ontology
• Core Concept Thesaurus Benefits
• Questions
• Conclusion

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Background to the Research

• Researcher (mature aged, postgraduate student)
  experienced difficulties
• Undergraduate and postgraduate experience
  difficulties and hit and miss finding materials
  online
• Problem lay in establishing search terms
• Inconsistencies and differences in design of
  databases and the internet
• Library of Congress operates only on LC inbuilt
  search terms
• Survey conducted at UC showed that student
  preferences are for the internet (Google Yahoo)
  rather than EDB and library materials
• University of Melbourne 65 (Ellis Salisbury
  2004)
• University of Canberra 70 (Redfern 2004).

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Normal WWW Searching
.everything
Staff Students
WWW
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Core Concept Searching
.edu
Staff Students
Core Concept Thesaurus
WWW
.org
.gov
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Development of the Core Concept Thesaurus

• PhD Research Project
• Thesaurus Development and Experiment for
  International Studies Foundations 1 and 2
  (University of Canberra)
• Use of
• Subject Outlines
• Reading Brick
• E-reserve Materials
• Four Categories
• Primary Term (Term-T)
• Secondary Term (Near Term
  NT)
• Primary Semantic Terms (Broader Term
  BT)
• Secondary Semantic Terms (Related Term RT)

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Development of the Core Concept Thesaurus cont

• Terms Consist of
• Subject Concepts
• Events
• People
• Dates
• Sayings/Quotes
• Colloquiallisms
• In
• Australian-English
• English-English
• American-English

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Development of the Core Concept Thesaurus cont

• Cross reference and additional terms
• Directory of Contemporary and Natural Language
  Search Terms for the Internet
• Macquarie Thesaurus
• Oxford Thesaurus
• Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Core Concept Thesaurus Ontology
Primary Term
Secondary Term Primary Semantic Term
Secondary Semantic Term
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Core Concept Thesaurus Benefits

• Provides Subject Core Concept Terms
• Aids Learning Subject Core Concept Terms
• Searches Only on .edu, .org, .gov
• Provides Authoritative Information
• Allows Semantic Searching
• Eliminates Commercial Web Sites
• Eliminates Time Waste on the Internet
• Subject Bibliography
• Database contains
• Events, Places, People, Ideologies, Dates,
  Organizations, Governments, Sayings,
  Colloquialisms, Acronyms.

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Questions

• ?

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Conclusion

• So Folks,
• I have a ticket to ride,
• and I invite all information seekers
• to ride the RAILS2.