eduard - EDUcation Austria Reseach Directory
Vertical semantic search over the whole range of Austrian educational assets for adults using facets
eduard helps the user search for courses thanks to a pre-defined, 2-level classification and several advanced search parameters. The semantic search covers regional and national data sources.
Hence, eduard is not only a centralised search platform but also a useful display channel for (non-)commercial educational institutions and databases whose goal is to find new possibilities to present their assets.
In addition, eduard offers the possibility to federate, thanks to the Melvil® service platform. This enables the operator BM:UKK, the Austrian Ministry of Education, Culture and Art, to adjust the search service with minimal effort so as to make it available to other institutions.
The benefits at a glance
- Focus on target groups
- Guided search based on expert knowledge
- Navigational help through pre-defined structures
- Active support of knowledge transfer
- Very high quality search results due to a vertical (topic-related) database
- Preliminary information about the amount of results
- Consolidated presentation of heterogeneous data with different internal structures
- High performance and stability
*Faceted classification | uma's definition
A faceted classification is a structured and multi-level classification developed from expert knowledge. It helps the user to search and, due to its structure, encourages a sustainable knowledge transfer.
