Semantic challenges and opportunities in the Human Resources Domain
As part of the ePortfolio conference
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The OOA is an international not-for-profit organization that consists of industry, government, and research leaders and innovators with respect to ontology development, use, or education. The general mission of the OOA is to develop strategies for ontology recommendation and standardization, and thereby promote the ontology technology to industry. The OOA is mainly content-oriented rather than only technology-oriented. The OOA is a KnowledgeWeb initiative. KnowledgeWeb (FP6-507482) is a European-funded network of excellence and the world’s largest coordinated research effort on Semantic Web Technology and on ontology in particular.
The OOA is organized as a number of domain chapters and working groups. A domain chapter is responsible for implementing the OOA mission in a vertical market sector; Examples are HR, eHealth, financial, legal, etc. A working group focuses on a certain issue that is horizontal for several or all domain chapters; Examples are Ontology Evaluation and Quality, Upper-Level Ontologies, etc.
The OOA-HR Chapter:
The HR domain has many facets. But one particular view on HR is fast becoming
the motor for serious change. Competency-centric HR is not only reaching
a great number of traditional HR processes, it is also the start for a
new wave of change in the labor market as a whole. Programs such as ‘Matching
on Competencies’ (MoC, replacing the traditional Job-CV matching),
Mobility@Work and competency driven qualifications, and even competency
based exit strategies, form the basis for competencies to readily become
the common currency of the European labor market.
The mission of the HR chapter is to promote semantics technology into
HR/e-learning standards and applications:
• Semantic interoperability
• HR upper level concepts
• Semantics of HR-XML
• Semantic metadata for HR applications
• Semantics in job matching
• Semantics in learning technologies
• Modeling and representation of: Jobs, CVs, Competencies, Skills,
Employees, People, Organizations, Social Events, etc.
• Multilinguality in human resources ontologies
• Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and evaluation.
The goal of this workshop is bring people for the HR and from the Ontology
communities to discuss semantics challenges and opportunities in the HR
domain.
Organizer:
Mustafa Jarrar, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Venue: The workshop will take place at the Kings Center, which offers modern facilities in a unique Oxford setting. To learn more about the Kings Center see their website: http://www.kingscentre.co.uk/
Kings Center, Osney Mead,
Oxford, OX2 0ES
| 10:00 |
Update on the ePortfolio plans and activities, Serge Ravet and Marc Van Coillie, Eifel.org |
| Session 1: Introduction and Updates |
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| 10:20 |
Welcome and Introduction, Prof. Robert Meersman, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium |
| 10:40 |
The Ontology Outreach Advisory, Dr. Mustafa Jarrar, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium |
| Session 2: Semantics and Competency frameworks Session chair:Luk Vervenne |
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| 11:00 |
Skills Ontologies, Prof. Christophe Roche, Université de Savoie, France |
| 11:20 |
The IEEE competency framework standard, Claude Ostyn, IEEE-LTSC |
| 11:40 |
The Skillsnet plans and activities, Michael Brown, Skillsnet.Com |
| Session 3: Interoperability Challenges Session chair:Christophe Roche |
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| 13:00 |
The need for a semantic layer toping the HR standards, Luk Vervenne, Synergetics, Belgium |
| 13:20 |
Challenges in competency exchange and job-matching, Jean-Claude Xheneumont, Le Forem, the Walloon employment agency, Belgium |
| 13:40 |
Challenges in Semantic based Job-matching, Theo Mensen, CWI, The Dutch employment agency, Netherlands |
| 13:00 Lunch buffet |
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| 14:00 |
Plenary session: |
| Session 4: Demos Session chair:Michael Brown |
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| 15:00 |
An e-learning ontology, Dr. Marco Ronchetti, University of Trento, Italy |
| 15:10 |
Semantic Metadata Extraction using GATE, Dr. Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK |
| 15:20 |
Competences assessment based on semantic network. Clementina Marinoni, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
| 15:30 |
An
Ontological Approach to Competency Translation. Karsten Lundqvist,
University of Reading, UK |
| 15:30 |
Session 5: Open Discussion Session chair: Mustafa Jarrar |
| 16:00 Coffee break |
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| 16:20 |
Conclusions and close We agreed to team up as the HR semantics community, apply for collaborative projects, etc. But we agreed to first write an HR semantics Roadmap to identify the challenges, opportunities, main players, existing tools, projects, etc. This roadmap will published by the OOA, and used as reference for both the HR community and the Semantic web community. |