Modelling IMS QTI with Topic Maps

Presentation, was published by Reidar Bratsberg, Jan Schreiber, and Terje Oksum Syversen at 2010-09-30

This presentation is about how Topic Maps help to improve e-Learning applications.

IMS Question & Test Interoperability (QTI)1 is a specification for use in e-learning applications. It describes a data model for the representation of ques- tions (assessment items) and test data (assessment tests) and their corresponding result reports. When we transferred the data model to Topic Maps the need of referring from text in occurrences to topics in the topic map arose.
We created the notion of embedded topics in occurrences in order to mark the position of associations to relevant topics within the text. The presentation will explain in detail how this is modelled in the topic map, how it was solved in the authors’ interface (test editors) and the rendering of the resulting assessment items in the user interface.

Presented at

TMRA 2010

Conference in Leipzig from 2010-09-29 to 2010-10-01

With Linked Topic Maps the motto of the TMRA 2009 conference was about spinning a global web of interchangeable and linkable topic maps. Linked …

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Nowadays Topic Maps appears to be very suitable for being applied in Libraries, Archives and Museums. It provides a suitable model and mechanisms for depth indexing, classification and the implementation of FRBR, CIDOC-CRM or other conceptualizations.

Liliana Melgar