Evolving Taxonomies: Approaches to Extension and Update
9th OJA Forum
At the upcoming 9th OJA Forum, Claudia Plaimauer will give a presentation on “What to add, and what not to add – that is the question! “. The decision whether and how terms found in OJAs should be added to existing skills taxonomies depends on several fundamental factors like the
usage context of the taxonomy, the pursued information policy and available technical possibilities. It also needs to be considered that
curated vocabularies (like taxonomies) and natural language (as occurring in OJAs) pursue different objectives. Furthermore, OJAs are addressed at
a specialist audience (potential applicants) and hence don’t have to be generally intelligible. The role of the taxonomy manager is to review at
least the more frequently occurring terms that seem to be missing, interpret, organise and structure these in view of above mentioned
factors, content related necessities as well as taxonomy conventions. The presentation will illustrate this decision making process with examples
taken from ESCO and the Austrian PES’ Competences taxonomy.
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10:00 – 15:00
Online
Webinar 
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