ENSEMBLE

Ensemble project team members and participants in project pilots met at CARET in Cambridge to review progress and discuss both technical developments and educational projects using semantic technologies in areas including Plant Sciences, History, Engineering and Anglo-Saxon Studies.

Amongst the various applications being developed are examples where semantic technologies will allow learners to:

• locate appropriate mathematics tutorial resources to support their learning
• explore the possible factors affecting the spread of diseases in plants
• integrate user-generated fieldwork data with large datasets relating to plant distribution
• read original historical documents and relate these to people, places and events

Undergraduate researchers appointed under the UROP scheme have been working with CARET researchers and Ensemble project members since the beginning of July. The full project begins in October 2008.

Pictured: Emma Connolly, Fran Tracy, Katy Jordan, Patrick Carmichael, Rob Mackinnon, Jodie Watson, Megan Davies Wykes, Ben Roberts, Nicola Peart, Keith Johnstone.