GeoCourseHub Ontology: Towards lifelong curriculum management

Proactively serving educational demands in professional and lifelong learning contexts requires efficient management of fine-granular curriculum information. The challenge is that currently, curriculum management is fragmented across multiple university systems. Addressing this issue, GeoCourseHub (GCH) is poised to function as a centralized data platform. This platform not only facilitates requests for curriculum data from external applications but also serves as a repository for new data generated by these applications. The platform collects and converts conventional course content into searchable learning objects, enabling the creation of tailored learning paths. To date, the project has successfully delivered several key components, including the GCH ontology, a data persistence layer, a data API layer, and a data browser. These components provide access to information on 83 master courses offered by ITC, and more than 3500 space-related courses from across Europe for the Astraios course catalogue.