Elena: A Mediation Infrastructure for Educational Services

The paper presents the work of the Elena project. The contribution of this paper is twofold: The first part of the paper elaborates on the notion of educational services. Educational services are differentiated from learning objects and put in context of web services. A model for educational services is introduced and current limitations of metadata standards are addressed. In the second part of the paper a mediation infrastructure for educational services, so called smart learning space, is sketched. The architecture of smart learning spaces is based on P2P and semantic web technologies. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.3.1 [C]: omputer Uses in Education General Terms Smart space for learning Keywords educational services, semantic web, P2P

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Bernd Simon, Joaquín Salvachúa, Michael Sintek, Wolfgang Nejdl, Zoltán Miklós
• Keywords: Educational Services, Internet Technology, Keywords Educational Services, Smart Learning Space, WWW 2003