Indexer Reference List for: Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning
Objects: Issues, Applications and Technologies
Editors: Lori Lockyer, Sue Bennett, Shirley Agostinho and Barry Harper
Chapter Title: For the ultimate accessibility and re-usability
Author: Dr Philippe Martin, Dr Michel Eboueya
Term 1- Knowledge
 Also known as: (semi-)formal/conceptual/semantically-organized (meta)data,
semantic network
 Similar to: ontology, well-organized metadata
 Associated in the manuscript with: knowledge server/provider/repository/base(d)
(KB= knowledge base), statement, metadata, knowledge-oriented,
manual/automatic knowledge sharing/retrieval/modelling/ representation(s)
 Notable appearances of this term can be found on: any page of the chapter, e.g.
Page 1 - ... knowledge bases (semantic networks) can be used as shared medium
Page 1 - ... implemented their ideas into a knowledge server named WebKB-2
Page 1 - ... formal way, that is, with a knowledge representation language
NOTE: PAGE NUMBERS DO NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE COVER PAGE
Term 2- Statement
 Also known as: sentence, knowledge representation
 Similar to: belief and definition (the two direct subtypes of statements)
 Associated in the manuscript with: (semi-)formal, informal, un-decomposable
object (= category/statement), "usefulness", precise
 Notable appearances of this term can be found on: any page of the chapter, e.g.
Page 1 - ... "object", should either be one formal term (a category identifier) or
an "un-decomposable statement" (typically, one semantic relation ...
Page 2 - ... a "statement" is a small set of symbols connected by relations
Page 2 - ... "informal statement" is a statement without formal terms
Term 3- Term
 Also known as: category/concept/relation/object name/identifier
 Similar to: name or identifier
 Associated in the manuscript with: formal, informal, representation, creators
 Notable appearances of this term can be found on:
Page 1 - term (a category identifier)
Page 2 - "formal term" is a symbol (character string, icon, sound, etc.) whose ...
Page 2 - an "object" (or re-usable LO) is either a term or a statement
Term 4- Relation
 Also known as: semantic link
 Similar to: conceptual relation (not to hyperlink)
 Associated in the manuscript with: conceptual, instanceOf, generalize/specialize,
argument, index, represent, organize, compare, contextualize, (e)valuate, filter,
search, query, browse, navigate, retrieve, and the nominal forms of these verbs
 Notable appearances of this term can be found on:
Page 1 - "un-decomposable statement" (typically, one semantic relation between
two other objects, with some information about the context of this
relation, such as its creator and temporal, spatial or modal constraints ...
Page 2 - a network with argumentation, objection and specialization relations
Term 5- Sharing
 Also known as: publishing information in a more or less normalized way
 Similar to: publishing
 Associated in the manuscript with: knowledge, retrieval, normalization,
organization, collaboration, scalable, efficient
 Notable appearances of this term can be found on:
Page 1 - current approaches for sharing and retrieving learning objects
Page 2 - keeping precision-oriented information retrieval/comparison/sharing
efficient even when the number of statements … grows large
Page 2 - A scalable knowledge sharing and retrieval imply a lexical, structural and
ontological normalization of the knowledge
Term 6- Normalization/Normalize(d)
 Also known as: n/a
 Similar to: representation, organization
 Associated in the manuscript with: best practices, convention, protocol,
scalable, comparable, precise, organized, statement
 Notable appearances of this term can be found on:
Page 1 - "at the right place", or more generally, in a "normalized way"
Page 6 - normalized insertions into a shared KB
Page 9 - Supporting Knowledge Entering and Normalization
Term 7- Collaboration/Collaborative(ly)
 Also known as: cooperation
 Similar to: n/a
 Associated in the manuscript with: argumentation, (e)valuation, relation,
discussion, organization, normalization, sharing
 Notable appearances of this term can be found on:
Page 5 - KB systems are not easy to develop, especially user-friendly ones
supporting collaboration between their users
Page 17 - Documents and synchronous collaboration or teaching will always
exist and be needed but these works will hopefully also lead to the
completion of more semantically structured media and hence …
Term 8- Organization/Organize(d)
 Also known as: conceptual organization/indexation
 Similar to: representation, normalization
 Associated in the manuscript with: knowledge, conceptual, sharing, collaboration,
normalization, centralization distribution, scalable, efficient, precise, refined,
redundancies, inconsistencies,
relation and all the (above cited) terms associated to relation
 Notable appearances of this term can be found on:
Page 1 - there should be only one virtual well-organized knowledge base (KB)
Page 2 - "conceptual organization/search"
Page 8 - organization of the KB and hence its limited amount of redundancies
Term 9- Notation
 Also known as: syntax
 Similar to: language
 Associated in the manuscript with: normalization, statement, representation,
FCG, FL, FE (Formalized English), KIF, RDF, XML, CycL
 Notable appearances of this term can be found on:
Page 7 - this requires the learning of graphical or textual notations for
representing information precisely
Page 10 - WebKB-2 proposes notations such as "Formalized English" (FE)