[rdfweb-dev] FOAF Skills

[Libby Miller]

yep and I think Jason's stuff was very interesting and would mesh with
Ian's references idea in terms of describing skills, qualifications and
so on, common to both.

Libby

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Jason Bell wrote:

> Ian
>
> I threw a couple of ideas regarding CV info within a FOAF, but then decided
> to move it as a seperate project.
>
> My original post:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rdfweb-dev/message/362
>
> Regards
> Jason Bell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Davis [mailto:iand at i...]
> Sent: 19 December 2002 11:49
> To: rdfweb-dev at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [rdfweb-dev] FOAF Skills
>
>
> I'm sure this is not a new idea.
>
> I've been thinking about profiling skills in FOAF with a twist. The
> traditional CV is a list of employers, academic achievements and
> skills which was born from a lack of communication capability between
> employers, i.e. they have to rely on you telling them what you've done
> because they cannot possibly gather the information themselves.
>
> However, in a networked world it might be feasible. So, rather than me
> declaring my skills in my FOAF, I'd like other people to declare what
> they know about me. The employer then needs only to find someone who
> knows me that they trust the opinion of (could be an agency I guess).
>
> Two vocabularies are needed: skills and competency levels. I looked at
> the HR markup stuff[1] but they cheekily avoid both of these instead
> opting for a framework in which you can build your own ratings etc.
>
> I've looked at the various big recruitment sites but it doesn't seem
> that they have anything like uri addressable descriptions of skills.
> One alternative is to point to a Wikipedia entry, e.g.
> <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl>
>
> For a quick start on the competency levels pointing to Advogato might
> be pragmatic - they provide 3 different levels: Apprentice, Journeyer,
> Master.
>
> The RDF could look something like this:
>
> <foaf:Person>
> <!-- person identifying stuff here -->
>
> <foaf:skillCompetency>
>
> <foaf:skill
> rdf:resource="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl" />
>
> <foaf:competency
> rdf:resource="http://www.advogato.org/certs.html#Journeyer" />
> </foaf:skillCompetency>
>
> </foaf:Person>
>
> Has anyone else been looking at this kind of referee approach?
>
>
> -- Ian <iand at i...>
> "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
>
> [1] http://hr-xml.org
>
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