ESCO: Boosting Job Matching in Europe with Semantic Interoperability

Author

le Vrang, Martin ; Papantoniou, Agis ; Pauwels, Erika ; Fannes, Pieter ; Vandensteen, Dominique ; De Smedt, Johan

Volume

47

Issue

10

fYear

2014

fDate

Oct. 2014

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

64

Abstract

ESCO--the multilingual European Skills, Competences, Qualifications, and Occupations classification--lets stakeholders in the EU labor market better understand information they exchange. Such semantic interoperability will help address the chronic mismatch between unemployed workers´ skills and companies´ needs.

Keywords

business data processing; labour resources; open systems; ESCO; EU labor market; Europe; chronic mismatch; competences; multilingual European skills; occupations classification; qualifications; semantic interoperability; unemployed worker skills; Employment; Europe; Interoperability; Portals; Qualifications; Semantics; ESCO; European Commission; European Skills/Competences; European Union; Internet/Web technologies; Qualifications; Semantic Web; and Occupations; big data; crowdsourcing; databases; distributed systems; e-government; job matching; job portals; knowledge management; linked open data; machine learning; semantic interoperability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2014.283

Filename

6928765