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Towards Meaningful, Cross-domain Employability Data Exchange a Nextgen Standards perspective Synergetics Luk Vervenne OOA workshop – October 11 2006. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Towards Meaningful, Cross-domain
Employability Data Exchange
a Nextgen Standards perspective
Synergetics
Luk Vervenne
OOA 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 about people being their greatest asset
into a guiding principle of business strategy”...
A small semantic sidekick
• Corporate < Employee : human capital processes• Employee < Corporate : employed• Corporate >< Employee : employability
Competenc(e)(y):
a measurable characteristic for employability and itsunderlying processes and artefacts: personal development,learning, performance management, ...etc
Synergetics nvSynergetics 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) - European 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 joining 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 business processes such as ...training, performance management, employability, etc...
Meaningful exchange of competence related HC dataMeaningful exchange of competence related HC data
Wage admin
CareerPlanning
JobRecruitment & Selection
PerformanceManagement
Training& Develop.
Succession Planning
BalancedScorecard
PersonalScorecard
CompetencyFramework
Third generation of ERP : Competence-based Employability Services?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, interoperability 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 such 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 capability
and therefore only solve half 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
PES/PRES
EC-TEL / IEEE/ OOA/HRTowards a
COMPETENCYREFERENCE Framework
Cross-sectorial CompetenciesCross-sectorial Competencies
Towards a Common
Competency Language
Towards a Common
Competency Language
< Final terms< Learning activities / Tasks< Competenc(i)es
< Final terms< Learning activities / Tasks< Competenc(i)es
Performance ManagementPerformance Management
Matching onCompetencies
Matching onCompetencies
The CompetenceObservatory
‘Employability’
‘Employability’ ‘Employability’
1. 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 standards
From domain standard specificaitons to cross-domain “speclets”
2. 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“Meaningful Exchange” requires a two level approach
Towards nextgen syntax standards
SYNTAX
• Cross-domain needs (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
Towards nextgen syntax standards
SEMANTICS
• Adding semantics in order to add “meaning” : FP6 projects (45
million € research budget)• Prolix• Tencompetence• AposDle
• KnowledgeWeb\OOA kick-off October 10, European EPortfolio
Conference, Oxford (www.eife-l.org): support for industry from the
worlds largest ontology 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”
• Collaborative methodology for ontology development (MESS system)
• Domain (context) model acts as main metadata generator for:
– Indexing RLO’s (field 9 LOM)
– Positioning, assessments, test items
– Contextualizing competencies :
Competency + Context = Meaning!!
...”Any ‘nextgen’ standardisation effort around competences 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 Barcelona
• 3 New IEEE studygroups
• CEN/ISSS WS ?? FP7 project??
• ??? Suggestions ???