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This paper describes Metasaur, which supports creation of metadata about the content of learning objects. The core of Metasaur is a visualisation for an ontology of the domain. We describe how we build lightweight ontologies for Metasaur automatically from existing dictionaries and how a user can enhance the ontology with additional terms. We report our use of Metasaur to mark up a set of audio lecture learning objects for use in a course.
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Apted, T., Kay, J., Lum, A. (2004). Supporting Metadata Creation with an Ontology Built from an Extensible Dictionary. In: De Bra, P.M.E., Nejdl, W. (eds) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. AH 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3137. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27780-4_4
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