Seminar report on

LAB2GO - A REPOSITORY TO LOCATE EDUCATIONAL ONLINE LABORATORIES

By Amrith Krishna

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (FISAT)
MOOKKANNOOR P O, ANGAMALY-683577, Affiliated to

MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY 2011

FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (FISAT) Mookkannoor P O, Angamaly- 683577.

Affiliated to

MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY, Kottayam- 686560 DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that this report entitled LAB2GO - A REPOSITORY TO LOCATE EDUCATIONAL ONLINE LABORATORIES is a bonafide report of the seminar presented during 7th semester by AMRITH KRISHNA 68505 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering during the academic year 2011-2012

Date: Place: Mookkannoor Head of the Department

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The satisfaction and euphoria that accompany the successful completion of a task would be incomplete without the mention of the people who are responsible for the completion of the seminar. I wish to express my sincere and heartfelt gratitude to those, whose guidance has made me to accomplish this seminar.

First and foremost I thank The Lord Almighty who gave me wisdom and enabled me to conduct this seminar successfully.

I express my heartfelt thanks to our beloved Manager Mr. P V Mathew for providing me all the required facilities needed for the completion of my seminar. Our Principal Dr. K S M Panicker deserves a special mention for the moral support he has given to me. I assert beyond the confines of simple gratitude to my respected HOD Mr. J C Prasad, for his very able guidance and valuable support. I am undeniably grateful to my Seminar Co-ordinator Ms. Hema Krishnan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and to my Seminar Guides Ms. Hansa J Thattil & Ms. Neenu Jhonson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering for their timely suggestions given during the entire seminar work. I also express my deep sense of thanks to all teaching and non teaching staff of Federal Institute of Science And Technology and especially to the staff of Computer Science Department for their excellent co-operation during my work. Unflinching support and constant encouragement from my family and friends helped a lot in successful completion of my work I thank them from the depth of my heart.

AMRITH KRISHNA

ABSTRACT This Report deals with creation of an online repository for online laboratories. The report takes in consideration the advancements happening across the world of web and discusses the creation of a common framework via the semantic web technology. The so called Web 3.0 technology is actually growing daily and is proposed to be one of the leading Web technologies within the next years. Machine computed knowledge, improved search mechanisms and structured data are only some key features which enhance the data handling within the repository. Online laboratories are interactive experiments which are available over the Internet and can be divided into two main groups, software simulations and laboratories made up of real hardware equipment. Technology-enhanced learning is becoming a new important trend in higher education worldwide. In particular, engineering education is becoming an exciting emerging field of research because it involves a multitude of disciplines which aim to resolve the pedagogical problems that arise with the advancement of technology. With the help of the semantic web technology a significant step forward can be made in terms of a general description model for online laboratories and the location of laboratories with requested properties. The paper focuses on an ontology design that can facilitate an easy to find repository and exchange of data using semantic web.

CONTENTS
PAGE NO: 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2.0 ONLINE LABORATORIES
2.1 Virtual Labs 2.2 Remote Labs 2.3 Hybrid Labs

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3.0 SEMANTIC WEB

3.1 RDF

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4.0 BASIC DEFINITIONS OF ONTOLOGY

4.1 Domain ontologies and upper ontologies 4.2 Online Laboratory 4.2.1 Remote Laboratory 4.2.2 Virtual Laboratory 4.2.3 Hybrid Laboratory 4.3 Experiment 4.2.1 Observation Experiment 4.2.2 Fixed Experiment 4.2.3 Adaptive Experiment

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5.0 ONTOLOGY DESIGN

5.1 Classes 5.2 Functionalities

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6.0 CONCLUSION REFERENCES

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