LEAP interest

Belongs to LEAP 2.0 > classes

Working definition
Refers to any topic, concept or idea that may motivate the portfolio holder, including personal values, other than the special case of abilities of interest to others.

Explanation
Interests, including motivations and values, are more closely personally held and less related to instrumental work contexts than abilities, which tend to be occupation-oriented things on the basis of which other people might rationally select someone.

Compared to abilities, interests are rather more likely to be defined by the user, because there is less immediate need for the clear matching that is desirable between prospective employer and employee. However, it is quite possible that this may change, if there is a large uptake in matching services for general interest, leisure, recreation and personal reasons.

Examples
It is difficult to give a few examples of such a very broad concept without appearing foolishly biased. Please have a go, anyone!

Alternative terms, with nuances of meaning

 * Interest
 * Hobby
 * Religion
 * Faith
 * Personal principle
 * Personal value
 * etc. (please add)

What it is not
An interest definition by itself is not a claim to have that interest, nor an explanation of how that interest fits into a person's life. It may even be associated with a moral rejection of that interest.

Predicates
See the notes on LEAP triples for an explanation of what forms of triples there are, and how they are represented here.
 * "Direct" predicates are those where this class is in the domain of the predicate (but its superclass is not).
 * "Inverse" predicates, if given for reference, are those where the class is in the range, but not the domain, of the predicate.
 * "=" means the predicate expects a literal object: the type of literal may be specified here.
 * "&rarr;" means the predicate expects an object URL referring to an instance of the given class(es).
 * "&larr;" is used for inverse predicates, and means that triples may exist with instances of the given class(es) as subject and this class as object.

Inherited
from pattern

Subclasses
none

IMS EP
See the eP spec as a whole

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Issues
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