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Vol: 55(69) No: 1 / March 2010 Inserting Microformats into Online Learning Environments Iasmina Ermalai “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Timisoara, Romania , e-mail: iasmina@cm.upt.ro Mihai Onita “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Timisoara, Romania, e-mail: mihai@cm.upt.ro Muguras Mocofan “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Timisoara, Romania, e-mail: mugur@cm.upt.ro Radu Vasiu “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Timisoara, Romania, e-mail: radu@cm.upt.ro Keywords: Microformats, hCard, hCalendar, hAudio, education, CSID Abstract Semantic Web appears as the much awaited technology of the future, an extension of the current Web, where the information receives a structured meaning used by intelligent agents to better find and process the web data. Microformats, designed both for humans and machines, are amongst the first steps towards this desideratum. The current paper concentrates on presenting following aspects: the integration of Microformats into worldwide academic environments, the implementation of three Microformats (hCard, hCalendar and hAudio) into the “Politehnica” University Distance Learning Center’s portal and the students’ response regarding this new technology. References [1] George Rzevski, Petr Skobelev, Agent Based Semantic Web (2009), [Online], Available: http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-agent-based-semantic-web.html, May 2009. [2] Daniel J. Lewis, Intelligent agents and the Semantic Web - Developing an intelligent Web, (2008), Intelligent agents and the Semantic Web [Online]. Available: http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/web/wa-intelligentage/wa-intelligentage-pdf.pdf. [3] Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings, "Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice," Knowledge Engineering Review, vol. 10, pp. 115-152, 1995. [4] Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila, "The Semantic Web," 2001. Available: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-semantic-web. [5] Stephen Downes, Why the Semantic Web Will Fail (2007), [Online], Available: http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-semantic-web-will-fail.html, apr. 2008. [6] Iasmina Ermalai, Andrei Ternauciuc, Mihai Onita, Radu Vasiu, "Publishing learning content on mobile devices," in Virtual University Bratislava, Slovakia, 2008. [7] Microformats Wiki, What are microformats? [Online], Available: http://microformats.org/wiki/what-are-microformats, aug. 2008. [8] Microformats.org, About microformats [Online], Available: http://microformats.org/about/, aug. 2008. [9] John Allsopp, Ed., Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0: Apress, Friendsof Ed, 2007. [10] Tantek Çelik, Microformats, Building Blocks, and You (2007), [Online], Available: http://tantek.com/presentations/2007/05/microformats-bb-you/. [11] Taran Rampersad, Making Sense of Microformats: Have Data, Will Find It (2006), [Online], Available: http://www.knowprose.com/node/15844, feb 2009. [12] Alessandro Martin, What are microformats? [Online], Available: http://microformats.org/wiki/what-are-microformats, aug. 2008. [13] Microformats.org, Microformats Implementations [Online], Available: http://microformats.org/wiki/implementations, oct. 2008. [14] Microformats.org, Browsers (2008), [Online], Available: http://microformats.org/wiki/browsers, ian. 2009. [15] Alex Faaborg, Microformats - Part 3: Introducing Operator (2006), [Online], Available: http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2006/12/16/microformats-part-3-introducing-operator/, ian. 2009. |