2009-03/Leap2A categories/life area

One of the 2009-03/Leap2A categories

An entry may be associated with any number of terms from this scheme. Use e.g.  or in full, not using CURIEs,  with the term drawn from the list. The label is optional, and may be used to note any variant term used by the portfolio holder, or used by the exporting system.

This category vocabulary is grounded in a range of vocabularies including IMS LIP and UKLeaP, with additions motivated by usage in partner e-portfolio systems.

Development
development (personal and/or professional)

The meaning of this category is exclusively related to the portfolio holder, not to the development of anyone else, nor any social or economic development. There are obviously issues with drawing the line between this and Education. If something is known as "personal development", "professional development", or has "development" as a key part of its title, then it should be categorised here as "Development". There is no problem with categorising an activity both as Development and as Education.

Education
learning or being taught in the course of upbringing or for general purposes

By far the most frequent activities in this category will be managed by an educational institution of some kind. However, this category includes home education; activities planned by someone else as "educational"; and activities planned by oneself as "educational". The category's meaning thus relies on the common understanding of the terms "education" and "educational". Some Education activities may also be Development.

Enterprise
business or organisational activity which is not ordinary employment or self-employment

This includes entrepreneurial activity, setting up businesses, and the like. Ordinary self-employment as a professional or trades person is not usually enterprise.

Family
family care (or similar; unpaid)

This includes child care, and care of elderly or infirm relatives.

Involuntary
involuntary (e.g. illness, hospitalization, detention)

Leisure
or recreation, hobby, pastime or sport

This kind of activity would probably not be designed primarily to benefit someone else.

National
national service, or any other compulsory national scheme

In combination, this category can be used to designate things related to a nation or state.

Personal
done for any personal reason that is not covered better by other categories, or that the holder does not wish anyone to know

Placement
work placement, internship or apprenticeship: a limited time of work-like activity designed to allow the acquisition of skills, etc. and on terms that are not the same as regular employment (e.g. less or no pay, less responsibility)

Politics
activity etc. with political motivation, e.g. campaigning or canvassing for political parties; standing for election to a political position; serving in a political post (which may not be paid)

Religion
activity etc. motivated by religious obligation, custom, or conviction

Training
for specific skills / abilities usable in the context of work

Sport or personal fitness activities should be not be classified here, but as Leisure.

Travel
for its own sake, rather than in the course of one of the other categories

Unclassified
where the exporting system cannot categorise the item in the given categories - it may belong to any of the other categories

Atom's label attribute may be used to give human-readable information on the life area in any terms used by the exporting system.

Voluntary
voluntary work, that is, unpaid; and typically for some cause or charity

Work
paid work undertaken normally

This includes employment and self-employment (typically as sole trader) which is not entrepreneurial.