[RDF Triples] Courses given at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 2020/2021

This data set is published in Turtle format using triples. 

The dataset contains all the Courses and their information at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for the university year 2020/2021. This information was gathered from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam online study guide 

A new vocabulary 'vu' was needed as some vocabularies did not allow full expression of the datas et.

You can use SPARQL in order to fetch data from this dataset, the property variables one can user are:

vu:offeredByFaculty

This property will return the faculty the course belongs to as a vu:FacultyName.

vu:taughtBy

This property will return the professors who teach that course as a vu:ProfessorName.

vu:courseContent

This property returns what a course is about as a string. 

vu:courseLevel

This property returns the course level (between 100 and 600) as an integer.

vu:courseObjective 

This property returns the objective of a course as a string.

vu:literature 

This property returns the required literature of a course as a string.

vu:recommendedBackground

This poperty returns the recommended background of a course as a string.

vu:targetAudience

This property returns the target audience of a course as a string.

vu:teachingMethods

This property returns the teaching methods of a course as a string.  

These are the by us created property variables. There are also some re-used variables which are:

vuc:CourseID rdf:type teach:Course

This returns all courses when used in sparql.

dbo:language

This property returns the language in which a course is given as a dbr:LanguageName

teach:academicTerm

This property is used in order to return the academic term in which a course is given as a string.

teach:courseTitle

This property returns the name of a course as a string.

teach:ects

This property returns the number of European credits one receives for a course as an integer.

teach:grading

This property returns the grading method of a course as a string. 

This data set can be used in order to find specific information about courses without knowing the exact course name or code. For example, you can fetch all courses that have 3 credits and are in English, given at the faculty of Science. Therefore it becomes much easier for students that want to follow courses outside of their major/master, which also fit their requirements. In a normal situation, a student would need to search through all 2064 courses given at the VU to find a course that they like.