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The OU linked open data: production and consumption

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The OU linked open data: production and consumption. / Zablith, Fouad; Fernandez, Miriam; Rowe, Matthew.
Proceedings of Linked Learning 2011: the 1st International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age co-located with the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC2011 Heraklion, Greece, May 29, 2011.. ed. / Stefan Dietze; Mathieu d'Aquin; Dragan Gasevic; Miguel-Angel Sicilia. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011.

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Zablith, F, Fernandez, M & Rowe, M 2011, The OU linked open data: production and consumption. in S Dietze, M d'Aquin, D Gasevic & M-A Sicilia (eds), Proceedings of Linked Learning 2011: the 1st International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age co-located with the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC2011 Heraklion, Greece, May 29, 2011.. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Linked Learning Workshop 2011, Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011, Greece, 31/05/11. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-717/paper1.pdf>

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Zablith, F., Fernandez, M., & Rowe, M. (2011). The OU linked open data: production and consumption. In S. Dietze, M. d'Aquin, D. Gasevic, & M-A. Sicilia (Eds.), Proceedings of Linked Learning 2011: the 1st International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age co-located with the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC2011 Heraklion, Greece, May 29, 2011. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-717/paper1.pdf

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Zablith F, Fernandez M, Rowe M. The OU linked open data: production and consumption. In Dietze S, d'Aquin M, Gasevic D, Sicilia M-A, editors, Proceedings of Linked Learning 2011: the 1st International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age co-located with the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC2011 Heraklion, Greece, May 29, 2011.. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 2011

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Zablith, Fouad ; Fernandez, Miriam ; Rowe, Matthew. / The OU linked open data : production and consumption. Proceedings of Linked Learning 2011: the 1st International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age co-located with the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC2011 Heraklion, Greece, May 29, 2011.. editor / Stefan Dietze ; Mathieu d'Aquin ; Dragan Gasevic ; Miguel-Angel Sicilia. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011.

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