The vision of a common international education space, including universities, infrastructure, and services
raised in the last decade. It implicates the composition of personalised study curricula consisting of modules offered by different universities and colleges. In this scenario there is a strong need for efficient services enabling individual search and comparison of study programmes and modules.
The SWAPS (Semantic Web Approach for Personalisation of Study) project, presented in this paper, is focussed on the development of a dedicated search system, based on Semantic Web technologies.
The SWAPS system facilitates automated semantic annotation of programme and module descriptions available on the web. The extracted semantics are stored in machine readable form offering a realistic perspective for efficient processing of semantic search and comparison of programme and module descriptions. This is an important step towards creating a global search and brokerage system for personalised study programmes.