The project aim: The project aims to support employer engagement and workforce planning requirements by providing a CRM based integrated view of employer based, professional and tertiary sector education (Figure 1). The major tasks: 1. to deliver models (documented in standards such as UML) that will span employer engagement and course information in a unified and integrated manner; 2. to deliver two software tools: i) one that will allow non-technical specialists to import MS Word documents containing course descriptions, provide semantic mark-up, and export into the JISC XCRICAP standard creating a database (Figure 2); ii) one that will support employer-led learner route planning (Figure 3). Figure 1: System Architecture Company A Document
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Figure 2: Java Transform Tool: UML+OCL modelling 2 XML Design Owl classes
Semantic Web Technology is utilised to discover semantic relationship and similarity of course data. An ontologybased description model was design-ed and implemented for managing and deploying course resources at possible distributed locations. Figure 3 shows the procedure used to calculate the Semantic Similarity for different OWL files.
Owl mapping Figure3: Semantic Tool: Semantic document mapping output
School of Engineering and Information Sciences Contact Persons: Prof: Balbir Barn, B.Barn@mdx.ac.uk, 020 8411 4563 Dr Geetha Abeysinghe, G.Abeysinghe@mdx.ac.uk, 020 8411 6944 Dr George Dafoulas, G.Dafoulas@mdx.ac.uk, 020 8411 4402 Dr Yongjun Zheng, Y.Zheng@mdx.ac.uk, 020 8411 6497