Author Archives: Sören Auer

Webinar recording on crowdsourced OpenCourseWare authoring with SlideWiki available

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Sören Auer

On Jan 21, 2014 at 15:00 CET we were hosting a webinar on crowdsourced, multilingual OpenCourseWare authoring with http://SlideWiki.org: https://plus.google.com/events/c2sc6p89v67g91uhrn7ofeu6j1c SlideWiki.org is a platform for OpenCourseWare authoring and publishing. Similar as Wikipedia allows the collaborative authoring of encyclopedic texts, GitHub of … Continue reading →

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Google's spiritus rector Eric Schmidt visited AKSW

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Sören Auer

Today Google’s spiritus rector Eric Schmidt visited AKSW to learn about the newest Linked Data technology and figuring out how to replace the Google’s proprietary knowledge graph with open DBpedia. Joke aside: Together his co-author Jared Cohen he visited University of Leipzig … Continue reading →

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Open Data Conference in Seoul

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Sören Auer

On the second day of Sören’s short trip to Korea, we participated in the Open Data Conference of the Information Society Agency (NIA). NIA seems to be implementing a comprehensive Open Data strategy (also involving LinkedData). Looks like South Korea … Continue reading →

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Open Positions for PostDocs, PhD Students and Developers at AKSW

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Sören Auer

There are several open positions for postdoctoral researchers, doctoral students and software developers at AKSW research group in Leipzig. More information can be found here: http://wiki.aksw.org/Jobs Applicants will become part of an very international, innovative and social team, be embedded into an … Continue reading →

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SlideWiki webinar recording available on YouTube

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Sören Auer

We were giving a Webinar on SlideWiki in the course of Open Education Week on Friday. The video recording is now available on YouTube. The webinar comprises a walk-through SlideWiki’s features.

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SlideWiki webinar tutorial during Open Education Week (March 15, 15:00 GMT)

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Sören Auer

We will perform a Webinar introducing SlideWiki and its features in the course of Open Education Week on March 15 at 15:00 GMT. While many Learning Content Management Systems are available, the collaborative, community-based creation of rich e-learning content is … Continue reading →

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Call for OpenCourseWare to be published at SlideWiki.org

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Sören Auer

We are looking for additional lecture notes (i.e. slide series) for publication on SlideWiki. We will support the import and enrichment of the courseware in SlideWiki. Original authors will be attributed prominently. A requirement is licensing of the content as … Continue reading →

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Paper about SlideWiki accepted at CSEDU Conference 2013

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Sören Auer

Our paper CrowdLearn: Crowd-sourcing the Creation of Highly-structured E-Learning Content (by Darya Tarasowa, Ali Khalili, Sören Auer, Jörg Unbehauen) was accepted as a full paper at the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU2013). The conference takes place May … Continue reading →

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Video presentation about the concepts behind SlideWiki

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Sören Auer

Darya was presenting our paper SlideWiki: Elicitation and Sharing of Corporate Knowledge using Presentations at EKAW. Here is the video of her presentation: http://youtu.be/ItN0_13Ick0 The deck Darya shows in the video is available here: http://slidewiki.org/deck/474

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First Public Beta of SlideWiki.org