data.open.ac.uk - Datasets

data.open.ac.uk is constantly evolving to deliver more public data from the Open University as open linked data. The list of datasets described below are the ones that we consider stable in the sense that their structure has been validated and is unlikely to change frequently. They are constantly being updated based on new data and updates realised on the origine repositories. Other datasets are also available on data.open.ac.uk, but are currently in a test/validation phase.

• Open Research Online

  The Open Research Online system contains information about publications originating from OU researchers. This information is represented using the Bibliographic Ontology (bibo).

  • Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/oro
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
  • List of classes
  • List of Properties
  • Example query: Names of the people who have authored a patent
  • Example object: The Article "Molecular parameters of post impact cooling in the Boltysh impact structure"

• OU podcasts

  OU podcasts, part of which is being made available through iTunes U, is a collection of Audio and Video material related to education and research at the Open University. This dataset is defined using a variety of ontologies, including the W3C Media Ontology, as well as our own SKOS representation of the iTunes U topic categories.

  • Graph name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/podcast
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
  • List of classes
  • List of properties
  • Example query: List of topics of podcasts related to course MS221
  • Example object: The podcast "Great-circle distance"

• Course Descriptions

  The course description dataset includes most parts of the courses from the Study at the OU website. Courses are described using the courseware ontology and the AIISO ontology, as well as several extensions with locally defined properties.

  • Graph Name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/course
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
  • List of classes
  • List of properties
  • Example Query: Postgraduate modules in computing
  • Example Object: M366 - Natural and artificial intelligence
    

• OpenLearn

  This datasets is a linked data representation of the metadata related to units of teaching and learning material openly available from the OpenLearn website. It notably uses the Creative Commons Rights Expression vocabulary and the Nice Tag Ontology. Units might relate to modules/courses when the unit corresponds to specific course material.

  • Graph Name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/openlearn
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
  • List of classes
  • List of properties
  • Example Query: Topics being used together with "Psychology" in OpenLearn Units
  • Example Object: AA100_1 - Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

• KMi Planet Stories

  KMi Planet is the online news system from the Knowledge Media Institute. The sories are represented as posts in the SIOC ontology.

  • Graph Name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/kmiplanet
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
  • List of classes
  • List of properties
  • Example query: Date and title of stories written by Enrico Motta
  • Example object: The story "KMi's Semantic Web Technologies at..."

• KMi People Profiles

  This datasets includes profiles of members of staff of the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, as available on the people pages of KMi, represented using the FOAF Ontology

  • Graph Name: http://data.open.ac.uk/context/people/kmifoaf
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
  • List of classes
  • List of properties
  • Example query: Images of the KMi people currently working on the LUCERO project
  • Example object: Mathieu d'Aquin