Ontology Outreach Advisory

OnTheMove (OTM) in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal in 2007 co-locates five successful related and complementary conferences. Each conference covers multiple research vectors, viz. theory (e.g. underlying formalisms), conceptual (e.g. technical designs and conceptual solutions) and applications (e.g. case studies and industrial best practices).

Next to the main conference, a very interesting set of workshops will be presented. A few of them directly touch upon OOA core interest topics, with the top scorer being OnToContent '07. This workshop, organized by the Ontology Outreach Advisory itself, aims to focus on content issues.

These include methodologies and tools concerned with modeling good ontologies, approaches to ontology content evaluation, quality measures, ontology content management (e.g. metadata, libraries, and registration), ontology documentation, etc.

The workshop also aims to give a special attention to ontology content issues in two industrial sectors: human resources and employment, and healthcare and life sciences.

The second OOA Workshop at the Human Capital Summit in Maastricht has been a great success. Nearly thirty attendees, some from academia and most from industry, followed the programme which was compiled of two sessions and a wrap-up.

The first session contained presentations of some relevant competency-oriented models and frameworks. The second session saw a managed, lively discussion centered around a 'linking ontology' which could explicitly show semantic overlaps and differences between the various competency models/frameworks. The third wrap-up session was brief and positioned the OOA workshop inside the HR-XML domain.

At the upcoming Maastricht HCSIT Summit, on October 17, the OOA presents an industrial workshop to interactively establish common aspects between various proposed competency modeling frameworks and evolving industry standards from IMS and HR-XML. The programme is available in PDF.
Update: the results of the workshop are available.

You are cordially invited to attend this workshop and enjoy the opportunity to help shape the interoperability framework for semantics-enabled HR information exchanges. These include ePortfolios, IMS and HR-XML standard(s), and related developments.

The workshop aims to bring together various approaches to competency frameworks, and compare them to existing/emerging standards from IMS and HR-XML. The speakers have been invited to briefly state the most important aspects of their framework in relation to the IMS and HR-XML standards. Subsequently a common workshop will interactively establish the overlaps between all approaches and produce a first draft of what could become a standards document. The results of the workshop will be presented at the HR-XML track which runs partially parallel.

People from organisations in the KnowledgeWeb Network of Excellence can apply for a contribution towards the trip and workshop costs, as the OOA is a KnowledgeWeb activity.

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