Universidad de Alcalá - UAH (Spain)

URL: http://www.uah.es/

The University of Alcalá, (UAH) whose origins date back to the year 1499, is currently one of the medium-sized Spanish universities, with 15 faculties and more than twenty thousand students. It is located approximately 30 km. outside of Madrid, in the city of Alcalá de Henares, named a World Heritage site by UNESCO in December 1998, in recognition of the fact that Alcalá was the first university town, planned as such, in the world. The Computer Science Department is located at the Polytechnic School, created in 1989, and counts with a staff of more than sixty full time persons.

The Computer Science Department, located at the Polytechnic building, is responsible for the Bs.C, Ms.C. and Ph.D. degrees on Computer Science. The Information Engineering Research Unit (IE) is one of the active groups in the Department, whose main research areas are e-learning technologies and applications, knowledge engineering and fuzzy logic. The group has produced a significant research activity in the fields of learning technology and Semantic Web applications in the last 3 years. Currently, IE leads the EU STREP project LUISA on applying semantic web services to the tasks of selecting, composing and negotiating learning objects.

UAH will coordinate the technical specification and system deployment work (WP5 leader); will particularly contribute to the technical representation of the educational metadata schema, as well as the design and implementation of the Organic.Edunet Web portal, adding services such as semantic-based search and retrieval. It will also contribute in the content population activities, by collecting and describing in the learning repository with publicly-available content resources, content located in the Spanish language. UAH will also participate actively in the creation of liaisons with standardization bodies and groups.

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