European Semantic Technology Conference

Pieter De Leenheer, Research Director of Collibra, is giving a presentation at the European Semantic Technology Conference in Vienna, 24-26 September. He will present previous academic work on Dogma Mess. Dogma Mess is a novel approach and tool for community-grounded fact- oriented ontology engineering that is inspired by agile design methods. In this talk, we demonstrate and validate Dogma Mess in a realistic case study that was carried out within the framework of the European Codrive project. The vision of Codrive is to contribute to more effective and meaningful competency- centric human resource management. Key challenges are the uniform publication of unambiguous competency information and ``time-to-competency'' agility. To this end, Codrive's mission is to develop a conceptual, shared and formal knowledge representation of competence domains by adopting state-of- the-art ontology methodology and infrastructure. Community stakeholders include educational institutes, public employment organisations, and industry partners from different European countries. The resulting Vocational Competency Ontology provides a candidate best practice for engineering a community-shared and reusable ontology base that can be applied by all stakeholders to semantically reconcile their competency models. More information can be found on the ESTC website: www.estc2008.com.