LEAP existing related ontology

Part of LEAP ontology

A good example is this Professional Learning Ontology and one of its main authors has agreed to help us. It is excellently clear, so that one does not have to plough through lots of text to see the essence.

Not so concise, the TENCompetence Domain Model Version 1.0 (pdf) contains diagrammatic models of competence ontology, as does A MODEL FOR COMPETENCE GAP ANALYSIS (also pdf).

There is ongoing effort in North America to develop standards in the health professions domain, mainly by the MedBiquitous Consortium. While there is no ontology (to my knowledge (T Willett)) that describes the professional portfolio, there exist shared vocabularies that may contribute to our work. The MedBiq working group on Competencies has some preliminary use cases available here. This preliminary work complements many of the notions presented in the Professional Learning Ontology above, including the concepts of relationships to portfolios, learning events/objects, and topics. MedBiq also has a working group on Activity Reports (i.e. electronic certificates health professionals receive after completing Continuing Education activities, for inclusion in their portfolio as evidence of competence or for professional recertification), who are producing an Activity Report Specification proposal. Finally, they have also produced a Professional Profile XML specification to describe 'who' might be attached to a portfolio, competency, etc.

O*Net - the Occupational Information Network of the US - has developed a Content Model that describes the "anatomy" (knowledge, skills, tasks, etc.) of an occupation. Again, while this does not provide an ontology for a portfolio/profile, our work may be related to the worker characteristics, requirements and experience captured by this model.

In the EU, EIfEL (European Institute for E-Learning) has done a fair bit of work on ePortfolio development and standardization. They have published an ePortfolio interoperability framework. This page also provides links to other eLearning and HR standards.