Knowledge Tree

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Overview

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Knowledge Tree is a link aggregating portal. It presents content structured according to the folder-document paradigm. Knowledge Tree provides authentication and authorization and implements a simplified form of access control. It supports collaborative authoring and social annotation. Knowledge Tree is primarily oriented towards ADAPT2 architecture.

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Usage

Knowledge Tree has been intensively used as learning portal in the following courses

Course|Learning tools|Adaptation tools
WebEx|CUMULATE

Features

  • Authoring
    • Document and folder creation and management
    • WYSIWYG editor for documents/folder descriptions
    • Adding resources from RSS feeds
    • Configuration of access control (view,edit,add)
    • (Conditional) hiding of folders and documents
  • Adaptation
    • Tacking user navigation via CUMULATE
    • (Conditional) adaptive navigation support via PERSEUS
  • Social/Community based
    • Note-taking
    • Ratings (under development)

Screenshots

Standardization

Knowledge Tree structure is partially serialized as RDF. For more information refer to Knowledge Tree RDF Binding.

Contacts

Michael V. Yudelson