Crowdsourced and Automated Educational Resource Metadata

Apr 1, 2025·
Vidminas Vizgirda
Vidminas Vizgirda
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Abstract
Educational metadata can facilitate search for educational resources, however adding metadata requires time and effort from resource creators and is an often overlooked part of publishing. Previous studies have investigated automated metadata generation and crowdsourced social metadata tagging. This demo presents a prototype browser plugin featuring both automated and crowdsourced metadata to enhance educational resource search. Prototype source code is available at github.com/Vidminas/educational-search-filters.
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Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
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Vidminas Vizgirda
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Hi 👋😊! I’m Vidminas (most people call me Vid), a postdoc on the CHAILD project splitting time between the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford and the Institute of Education, University College London.

I am interested in technology and education, and more specifically researching and developing technologies that empower people. The current CHAILD project focus is about defining and designing for agency in children and young people’s use of AI tools.

Before this, I did my PhD at the Institute of Language Cognition and Computation at the University of Edinburgh. My then-supervisors are Professor Fiona McNeill and Professor Judy Robertson. The project was about better understanding and designing tools to help teachers search for educational resources.

I am always keen to chat about teaching and learning, human-computer interaction, participatory research, and designing applications for good, feel free to get in touch!