Ontology Outreach Advisory

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.

This roadmap aims to identify the challenges and opportunities in applying the ontology technology in the Human Resources domain. It can be used as a reference for both the HR and the ontology communities. Status:A prefinal version (comments are invited!)

17-19 October, Maastricht, The Netherlands. The 1st Human Capital & Social Innovation Technology Summit in conjunction with 5th international ePortfolio conference: "Employability and Lifelong Learning in the Knowledge Society".

A one-day workshop has been organized during the Knowledge Web general assembly. Three HR experts -Theo Mensen(the Dutch employment agency), Luk Vervenne(Synergetics.be, HR-XML competency), and Claude Ostyn (the IEEE-LTSC chair)- have been invited to this workshop to discuss and give presentations about the need for semantics in the HR domain.

A seminar by Claude Ostyn during the Knowledge Web general assembly. Claude presented very well the main challenge of modeling, representing, and using competence ontologies. The seminar was ended with a lively discussion with all WP leaders, area managers, and other Knowledge Web partners.