The RAGE Software Asset Model and Metadata Model

Georgiev, Atanas; Grigorov, Alexander; Bontchev, Boyan; Boytchev, Pavel; Stefanov, Krassen; Bahreini, Kiavash; Nyamsuren, Enkhbold; Vegt, Wim Van der; Westera, Wim; Prada, Rui; Hollins, Paul; Moreno, Pablo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45841-0_18

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“…Most of the works propose reference systems, with little to no concern over the technical aspects and infrastructure required for reusability. Outstanding works in the field are the RAGE project (Georgiev et al, 2016) and the Serious Games Society (Serious Game Society, 2019). RAGE aims to create absorptive, extendable, portable and, above all, reusable assets with minimum dependencies, explicitly designed for serious games.…”

Section: Reusability and Learning Objectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Content manager for serious games: Theoretical framework and digital platform

Barianos

Papadakis

Vidakis

2022

Adv Mobile Learn Educ Res

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In education, digital or traditional, the material studied by students is the basis from which they will achieve knowledge. For this reason, schoolbooks have been meticulously designed to be scientifically correct and pedagogically sound. With the digitization and growth of education, and the shift to adaptive learning methods, educational content is no longer centrally decided and distributed; instead, many professionals are allowed to create and distribute material within their area of expertise, and educators often develop material for their classes. Still, educational games and their material are designed and developed similarly to books, where introducing new material by third parties is not an option. Even though techniques that could assist in the creation of adaptable, customizable gameplay and content are available and are often used in commercial games, their utilization requires technical knowledge that does not allow wide use by educators to create educational material. In this paper, we introduce a framework that will allow educators to create and manage educational content for serious games and create customized versions to cover the needs of their students and unlock the potential of adaptive learning. Towards this goal, we developed a pilot implementation of the framework that provides all the necessary tools to game developers to create adaptable games and retrieve game customizations from a server. Furthermore, a web platform has been developed where educators can browse for customizable games and custom sessions. These games and sessions have educators’ custom created educational content. With our framework and supportive tools and platform, we will elevate the educational value of serious games by including educators in content creation, content manipulation, game customization and thus gameplay personalization.

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Section: Reusability and Learning Objectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Content manager for serious games: Theoretical framework and digital platform

Barianos

Papadakis

Vidakis

2022

Adv Mobile Learn Educ Res

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“…Beside using the existing ACM Taxonomy, the project needs to develop a taxonomy for applied gaming asset and corresponding content and knowledge resource classification. This taxonomy will help the process of enriching and transforming advanced gaming technologies into self-contained assets for applied gaming that facilitate essential pedagogical functions, that can be linked together into higher level aggregates and that can be easily integrated in existing game platforms (Georgiev, et al, 2016). In order to fulfil this target, the asset developers on the project will need a tool that support Taxonomy construction, management as well as collaborative evolution.…”

Section: Realising and Applied Gaming Ecosystemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting Taxonomy Management and Evolution in a Web-based Knowledge Management System

Mertens

Gaisbachgrabner

et al. 2018

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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The internet surpassed the zettabyte order of magnitude of traffic in 2016. With the growth of the internet, information categorization becomes even more important than before. By matching information to existing categories, humans as well as machines are able to organize, manage, access and re-use information and knowledge resources in a more efficient and effective way. Categorization also helps to narrow the choices among content, information, and knowledge resources. Content, information, and knowledge resources can be browsed, searched, and accessed faster if they are appropriately categorized. In order to make categorization possible, a taxonomy is needed to organize content, information, and knowledge resources into a set of topical categories. In this paper, we target the need to support human computer interaction related to applying taxonomies including the challenges in taxonomy management, development, and evolution, as well as approaches to solve the related challenges. A Taxonomy Management System is introduced in this paper as a solution for supporting the human computer interaction in management, development as well as the evolution of taxonomies. The underlying architecture as well as the user interface of the Taxonomy Management System will also be explained. Finally, the implemented proof-of-concept system prototype is evaluated with real world users along real-world application use cases within the scope of a European funded Research and Innovation Action project.

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“…Each RAGE asset contains metadata, which describe its content and functionality. RAGE metadata model in the domain of applied gaming was designed for defining the asset's metadata and for enabling the proper implementation of the RAGE Asset repository system architecture [13].…”

Section: Rage Software Assetsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• Taxonomy Services defining an open interface for managing classification taxonomies and controlled vocabularies used in RAGE Asset Metadata Model [13] to classify and describe an asset in educational and gaming contexts. For representation and storing Asset Repository adopts SKOS standard [23].…”

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The RAGE Advanced Game Technologies Repository for Supporting Applied Game Development

Georgiev¹,

Grigorov

Bontchev³

et al. 2016

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This paper describes the structural architecture of the RAGE repository, which is a unique and dedicated infrastructure that provides access to a wide variety of advanced technologies (RAGE software assets) for applied game development. These software assets are reusable across a wide diversity of game engines, game platforms and programming languages. The RAGE repository allows applied game developers and studios to search for software assets for inclusion in applied games. The repository is designed as an asset life-cycle management system for defining, publishing, updating, searching and packaging for distribution of these assets. The RAGE repository provides storage space for assets and their artefacts. It will be embedded in a social platform for networking among asset developers and other users. A dedicated Asset Repository Manager provides the main functionality of the repository and its integration with other systems. Tools supporting the Asset Manager are presented and discussed. When the RAGE repository is in full operation, applied game developers will be able to easily enhance the quality of their games by including advanced game technology assets.

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The RAGE Software Asset Model and Metadata Model

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Content manager for serious games: Theoretical framework and digital platform

Content manager for serious games: Theoretical framework and digital platform

Supporting Taxonomy Management and Evolution in a Web-based Knowledge Management System

The RAGE Advanced Game Technologies Repository for Supporting Applied Game Development

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