Publishing and linking university data considering the dynamism of datasources
Tayfun Gökmen Halaç, Bahtiyar Erden, Emrah İnan, Damla Oğuz, Pinar Göçebe, Oğuz Dikenelli · 2013
University organizations require many different software systems such as student information management system, library system, research project management software, course material management, geographical maps, and so on. These applications are generally developed by different vendors, and thus university data is stored in databases of different applications in a separated manner. University administration requires integrated university data to turn that data into knowledge for decision-making processes. However, integrating systems with traditional methods such as web services causes development and maintenance costs. For this reason, in Ege University, we benefit from linked data to integrate data distributed in different software systems. Data in different databases is published using general vocabularies, and related contents in different databases are linked to each other. In this paper, we introduce the evolution of the architecture of our linked university data, and a university assistant application developed on this integrated data.