1、Towards Meaningful, Cross-domain Employability Data Exchangea Nextgen Standards perspective SynergeticsLuk VervenneOOA workshop October 11 2006,Denise Kingsmill, Chair Task Force HCM, LBS,.”This is the moment when HCM takes its place in the Boardroom. Directors need to transform the airy cliche abou
2、t people being their greatest asset into a guiding principle of business strategy”.,A small semantic sidekick,Corporate Employee : employabilityCompetenc(e)(y): a measurable characteristic for employability and its underlying processes and artefacts: personal development, learning, performance manag
3、ement, .etc,Synergetics nv,HC Innovation company (Antwerp, Belgium ) 50:50 research - commercial projects Building an SAAS platform around competence-centric employability processes Standards involvement: HR-XML Europe Competency WG chair IEEE LTSC Competency framework ELIG core member (elig.org) Eu
4、ropean ePortfolio Consortium board (eife-l.org) EU projects: TenCompetence, Prolix, Codrive,Competenc(i)es are fast becoming the currency of the European Labor Market.We therefore need a Common Currency (Competency “EURO”)Education, industry and public & private employment services (P(R)ES) are join
5、ing the competency paradigm where “vocations, functions, vacancies and personal & learning activities profiles are directly or indirectly granularised into competencies This “finergrained” constructivist approach improves the management of a variety of competency related or competency driven busines
6、s processes such as .training, performance management, employability, etc.,Meaningful exchange of competence related HC data,Wage admin,Career Planning,Job Recruitment & Selection,Performance Management,Training & Develop.,SuccessionPlanning,Balanced Scorecard,Personal Scorecard,Competency Framework
7、,Third generation of ERP : Competence-based Employability Services?,Syntax & semantics,However. Today “Competencies” are mainly used as part of an internal business process, which is exactly what happened with business systems in general: Conceived to solely run organisation-internal processes, inte
8、roperability was merely an afterthought! (see: EDI) We should NOT make the same mistake with competencies, especially if competencies are to play a role in the knowledge economy and/or drive the 3rd generation of ERP (Employability Resource Planning )The current competency xml / syntax standards suc
9、h as IMS RDCEO (soon an official IEEE/LTSC standard), the HR-XML Competency specification and several proprietary P(R)ES xml formats are limited to the syntactic and the domain level They lack: Cross-domain interoperability Meaningful (semantic) data exchange capabilityand therefore only solve half
10、of the equation.,Next generation standards,Particularly in Europe, a “meaningful exchange” of competency data is needed between the three main domains, also being the main social pilars of employability : Education (1) Industry (2) P(R)ES (3),Multiple Perspectives on Competencies,EDUCATION,INDUSTRY,
11、PES/PRES,EC-TEL / IEEE/ OOA/HR Towards a COMPETENCY REFERENCE Framework,Cross-sectorial Competencies,Towards a Common Competency Language, Final terms Learning activities / Tasks Competenc(i)es,Performance Management,Matching on Competencies,The Competence Observatory,Employability,Employability,Emp
12、loyability,SYNTAX STANDARD : FORMAT & STRUCTURE (= XML specifications) ONE Competency-standard XML specification for working & learning ! != existing international COMPETENCY XML standards (IEEE, IMS, HR-XML)Challenge: cross-domain applicable standardsFrom domain standard specificaitons to cross-dom
13、ain “speclets”SEMANTIC STANDARD : CONTENT & MEANING (= Ontology)With a “common meaningful language”, using ontology technology, content can be exchanged in an meaningful (= semantic) way.,“Meaningful Exchange” requires a two level approach,Towards nextgen syntax standards,SYNTAX Cross-domain needs (
14、thus: beyond domain standards) October 25-26: global HR-XML summit Barcelona New IEEE WG “towards a cross-domain competency framework” Process and domain independent Focus on cross domain data models, NOT their XML binding Reusable & Universal “speclets” instead of monolythic standard specifications
15、,Towards nextgen syntax standards,SEMANTICS Adding semantics in order to add “meaning” : FP6 projects (45 million research budget) Prolix Tencompetence AposDle KnowledgeWebOOA kick-off October 10, European EPortfolio Conference, Oxford (www.eife-l.org): support for industry from the worlds largest o
16、ntology Research Network FP7 projects : continuity! Market uptake : the Netherlands,EU Codrive project (codrive.org),Context ontology : separates context information from “competency descriptions” Competency ontology : storing relations, interpretations, constraints): RCD gets “context RefID” Collab
17、orative methodology for ontology development (MESS system) Domain (context) model acts as main metadata generator for: Indexing RLOs (field 9 LOM) Positioning, assessments, test items Contextualizing competencies :Competency + Context = Meaning!,.”Any nextgen standardisation effort around competence
18、s should be”. Cross-Domain applicable (IEEE-HR-XML-IMS-P(R)ES) Meaningful (adding Semantics to syntax) Competency Process-Neutral using a universal framework consisting of Core Components Competency Process-Specific adding elements and/or metadata?,What?,How?,Competency Observatory : Cooperation EU competency-inclined projects: TenCompetence, AposDle, Prolix, Luisa, Codrive, . OOA/HR Chapter Ontology Outreach Authority : Oxford kick-off Oct. 10 (KnowledgeWeb)HR-XML Consortium : Gobal Summit 25-26 Barcelona3 New IEEE studygroupsCEN/ISSS WS ? FP7 project? ? Suggestions ?,
