http://linkedup-challenge.org/

The LinkedUp Project invites everyone, from researchers and students, to developers and businesses, to join the 'Veni' competition. This is the first of three consecutive competitions, and we’re calling for you to
submit a prototype or demo that uses linked and/or open data for educational purposes.

The total prize fund for ‘Veni’ is 5.000 EUR. However, the attractive prizes are only one reason to participate in the competition. It is also a great opportunity to work with the large, documented repository of linked datasets that the LinkedUp team is putting together. Participants will also be able to showcase their ideas and solutions to a wide
community of researchers and practitioners: All accepted demos and prototypes will be presented at OKCon (http://okcon.org/) in Geneva, on 17 September 2013.

To help participants, the LinkedUp team is providing dedicated support, how-to's, examples and code recipes, and has a designated developer blog: http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/devtalk/

We have also curated a number of high profile use cases from organisations such as the Commonwealth of Learning and Elsevier to serve as inspiration.

Get started with the LinkedUp Dataset Catalogue now:
http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/catalog/

What are you waiting for? Join the Challenge today!
- Find out about the LinkedUp Challenge: http://linkedup-challenge.org/
- Subscribe to our mailinglist:
https://www.l3s.de/mailman/listinfo/linkedup-public
- Follow @linkedupproject: http://twitter.com/linkedupproject
- Contact us directly for questions or support requests:
http://linkedup-project.eu/contact/
- Get more information about the LinkedUp Project:
http://linkedup-project.eu/

The daily work practices of researchers have changed during the last decade and with the development of the Web 2.0 services. Those changes affect the way researchers create and consume content, access information, network and collaborate in the scientific context nowadays. Today, many interactions between researchers are mediated by technology and many of those technologies can be categorized as being Social Media (Reinhardt, 2012).

These developments require from researchers to disseminate their articles, software and presentations to many internal (Dspace.ou.nl, Open U, yammer, Programme blogs and micro blogs) and external services (slideshare.com, personal or professional blogs and micro blogs, repositories like Mendeley, Research Gate and social networks like Linkedin or Facebook).

Managing all these services is a very time intesive but important task for a researcher nowadays. In order to improve this situation tools are available on the Web that update different Web 2.0 services from only one interface. Examples for such tools are http://ping.fm or http://www.retaggr.com they can be used to post a single message across multiple Web 2.0 services.

Although there are powerful tools available on the Web they have three major disadvantages for researchers:

1. They do only partly address the needs of researchers, as they only support the most used social media services and not the researcher specific ones rather internal information channels.
2. They only posting text messages to different Web 2.0 services, they do not provide the upload of articles or presentation as PDF files to suitable Web2.0 services like slideshare.net, scribd or Mendeley. esp. in the OUNL case these services do not provide support for Dspace.ou.nl, Open U communities or yammer.
3. There is security risk, as the users have to provide all account information including their passwords of the target Web 2.0 services to the dissemination tool.

These issues motivated the internal CELSTEC DONE! Project, that developed a customised Social Media Publishing tool for the Open U environment to disseminate articles, presentation, or software from one tool to multiple internal and external social media services. For the first release the following services has been taken into account:

1. Twitter
2. Slideshare
3. Scribd
4. Mendeley
5. Facebook
6. LinkedIn
7. Dspace
8. Open U communities
9. Yammer
10. Wordpress and other blogging systems
11. Research Gate (pending due to missing API interface)

The Social Media Publishing tool is now available for CELSTEC employees and the WeSPOT project as tessting alpha version  in the menu bar of portal.ou.nl:

The following presentation can provide some more background infos for the Open Science initiative at CELSTEC.

The LinkedUp project is very pleased to announce the launch of the LinkedUp Challenge. This is a series of three competitions (Veni, Vidi, and Vici) promoting the innovative use of linked and open data in an educational context.

The LinkedUp team invites anyone, from researchers and students, to developers and businesses, to join the first 'Veni' competition. Anyone can participate by building prototypes, demos and innovative tools that exploit, use, integrate or analyse large scale web data for educational use.

Some very attractive prizes are only one reason to join and participate in the challenge. It is also a great opportunity to work with a large, documented repository of linked datasets that the LinkedUp team is putting together. The consortium is also able to offer dedicated access to so far non-public resources. The challenge allows participants to showcase their ideas and solutions to a wide community of researchers and practitioners. For businesses as well as researchers, this will be a great opportunity to present their company and enhance their network. For people working in academia, the challenge will provide a wealth of material and opportunities for experiments and publications.

While the LinkedUp team already identified and connected many educational and non-educational resources to work with, participants can also use and connect their own material or other data sources. Anyone is free to showcase their creativity and solutions as long as the application is relevant to education in the broadest sense of the word. There are also some high profile use cases of established organisations made available that can serve as inspiration for innovative applications. Join today!

●      Find out about the LinkedUp challenge

●      Subscribe to our mailinglist

●      Follow @linkedupproject and #linkedupproject

●      Contact us directly

●      Get more information about the LinkedUp Project

Important dates

●      March 2013: Launch of the Challenge

●      May 2013: Release of the comprehensive LinkedUp dataset

●      27 June 2013: Submission deadline

●      1 September 2013: Notifications and Nominations

●      17 September 2013: Presentations and award ceremony

Join the challenge today!

There is a high potential for mobile learning and support applications in the medical domain. In a recent research initiative we developed together with the School of Medicine at the University College Cork, Ireland a smartphone app to train writing of medical discharge letters that are crucial for handovers (transferring information from one caregiver to another).

The so-called CLAS app is based on the “Cork Letter-Writing Assessment Scale” (created by Bridget Maher) and benefits from synergies between our different medical research projects like Handover, EMuRgency and BioApp.

Handover of patient information is a time of particular risk and it is important that accurate, reliable and relevant information is clearly communicated between one caregiver to another. The World Health Organization (WHO) lists accurate handovers as one of its High 5 Patient Safety initiatives (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, 2011). Improperly conducted handovers lead to wrong treatment, delays in medical diagnosis, life threatening adverse events, patient complaints, medical litigation, increased health care expenditure, increased hospital length of stay and a range of other effects that impact on the health system.

The CLAS mobile app is designed to standardise and improve handover communication between hospital and General Practice. Mobile applications such as CLAS offer exciting opportunities for improving patient safety and minimising medical error at handover and are just the tip of the iceberg with regard to harnessing the vast potential of mobile communications and how medical professionals interact with each other and more importantly, how they interact with the patients. The CLAS mobile application is currently the basic of two ongoing research projects. 

1. Assessment of the quality of 200 hospital discharge letters using the CLAS scale.
2. Assessment of the effect of the CLAS intervention on the letter-writing skills of 80 fourth year medical students.

Next to the medical research, we aim to further improve the CLAS app with typical mobile application features such as taking into account sensor information from the mobile device such as GPS coordinates and audio recordings. In addition, we want to make the CLAS app more interactive by enabling the end users (doctors and patients) to synchronise handover information, thus improving the quality of information transfer at handover.

At the upcoming mLearn conference in October in Helsinki we will present further details about the CLAS app in the context of a research paper.