This paper presents a case study profiling an induction programme for an E-learning Enterprise course. E-learning students require additional support to that of the traditional student and online learning offers the mechanism to provide educational training and skills development to...

Heritage is the key to the success of the tourism industry in Wales. Tourism itself is one of thelargest and most important industries in the Principality contributing £2.0 billion in spendingfrom overnight and day visitors, 7% to GDP and 10% of jobs to the economy (100,000 jobs).Following a...

The development of Ecommerce within Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Wales isrestricted by a number of barriers. Various projects initiated by government and academic bodiesexist to assist SMEs overcome these barriers. However, whether these projects represent theneeds of SMEs is...

The paper considers the development of the Finance, Tourism and Agricultural industries, as the main sectors of business activity, in Jersey in the twentieth century. The development of the Finance industry (from the arrival of the first merchant bank in the 1960s to its present day standing...

Findings from a data mapping and extraction exercise undertaken aspart of the STAR project are described and related to recent work in the area.The exercise was undertaken in conjunction with English Heritage andencompassed five differently structured relational databases containing...

Following work on data modelling of the varied archaeological systems at English Heritage’sCentre for Archaeology (CfA), a Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) has been produced usingextensions of the higher level CIDOC-CRM ontology. Some initial results of the modelling, using theCIDOC-CRM, were...

The Semantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources (STAR) project has been exploring the development of new tools andtechnologies for “semantic web” based research. The project builds upon the ontological modelling approach taken by EnglishHeritage staff, in recent years, to modelling...

[...]We recommend that a study incorporating our suggested refinements should now take place into a furthergroup of sectors of interest to policy makers to test further the framework and any improvements builtinto it.[...]

Within the archaeology domain, datasets frequently refer to time periods using a variety of textual or numeric formats. Traditionally controlled vocabularies of time periods have used classification notation and the collocation of terms in the printed form to represent and convey tacit...

This paper addresses issues arising from the first steps in mapping different (a)datasets and (b) vocabularies to the CIDOC CRM, within an RDF implementation. We firstdiscuss practical implementation issues for mapping datasets to the CRM-EH and then discusspractical issues converting domain...