Application of Semantic Web technologies in Informatics Education (short paper) (original) (raw)

The Semantic Web is an extension of the World Wide Web in which information is represented in a machine-understandable way. In addition, hyperlinks of the Semantic Web connect semantically related information based on ontologies. Thanks to these properties, it becomes possible to automate reasoning over a set of hyerlinked information on the Semantic Web using computational agents. In this paper, we propose to use a Semantic Web reasoner in order to help students understand concepts in informatics. More specifically, our approach consists of three parts. First, learning materials are collected from DBpedia (https://wiki.dbpedia.org) that is an online knowledge base whose contents are provided in several formats including RDF, Notation3, etc. Second, a teacher defines inference rules according to which new facts can be derived from the set of learning materials taken from DBpedia. Third, a learner executes a system called EBRS that is a simple-to-use interface for a well-known Semant...