In his 1903 Syllabus, Charles S. Peirce makes a distinction between icons and iconic signs, or hypoicons, and briefly introduces a division of the last ones into images, diagrams and metaphors. Peirce scholars have tried to make better sense of those concepts by understanding iconic signs in the context of the 10 classes of signs described in the same Syllabus. We will argue, however, that the ...

In order to manage the conceptual representation of European law we have proposed the Legal Taxonomy Syllabus (LTS) and the related methodology. In this paper we consider further legal issues that emerged during the testing and use of the LTS, and how we take them into account in the new release of the system. In particular, we consider the problem of representing interpretation of terms beside...

In Hungary, a lot of electronic-based syllabuses have been developed during the last 8-10 years at a most considerable cost. However, not much has been heard of their success or efficiency, as would be supported by scientific testing. First, the present study is to provide a survey of our project, which aimed at creating an integrated electronic learning environment. The processing of an educat...

A syllabus forms the structure of a course (or program) offering and is used to assemble its constituents. Course websites and LMS’s, also contain similar information, and in some sense, are quite similar to course outlines or syllabi, and replicate some of the information that can also be found in administrative websites of universities. From a system perspective, this duplication and dispersi...

Scholars writing books that are widely used to support teaching in higher education may be undervalued due to a lack of evidence of teaching value. Whilst sales data may give credible evidence for textbooks, it may poorly reflect educational uses of other types of books. As an alternative, this article proposes a method to automatically search for mentions of books in online academic course syl...

The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus methodology has been used to represent legal information at different levels such, e.g., European Directives, and their transpositions into national legislations. In this paper we point out the main issues of this approach, and extend it to account for a further level, the Acquis Principles level.