A Linked-Data-based Search System of Educational Tools for the Web of Data

The number of learning situations that can be carried out in a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) can be improved by the integration of third-party external tools. Before the integration takes place, it is compulsory to retrieve some information, both to select the most appropriate tool to support an specific situation and to be able to integrate it in the VLE. Current tool registries have some drawbacks that make the data retrieval difficult for the educators; among these drawbacks, the most important one is that search engines are not able to automatically import information from external datasets. To overcome this limitation, this paper introduces an ongoing doctorate research that proposes the creation of a search engine based on the Linked-Data principles.