Magellan, the Paderborn Approach to Distributed Knowledge Organization
Thorsten Hampel, Thomas Bopp · 2001
Abstract: The primary goal of the Magellan concept is the development of individual and cooperative semantic structures on side of the students by using tools that both support and accompany the cooperative learning process. With regard to this the Magellan system functions as a communication media for fellow students and lecturers and as a collection- and structuring system for all materials that accompany the learning process. The conceptual approaches of the Magellan system concentrate on the aspect of the establishment of cooperative and individual link- and navigation structures which might be described as paths or trails over learning materials. One of the key ideas for the integration of external web resources into such trails is the concept of annotations. First implementations of Magellan concentrate on the integration of an universal annotation mechanism inside virtual learning rooms. The following paper will discuss various approaches of semantic representations of web structures and annotation mechanisms for web documents. It will introduce our architecture based on the sTeam (structuring information in a team) system and will shortly describe our first prototypes. A new concept of learning: cooperative knowledge organization Both, individual and cooperative forms of learning need documents, graphics or other graphical