The ontology of the taxonomy "European Skills, Competences, qualifications and Occupations".
The ontology considers three ESCO pillars (or taxonomy) and 2 registers. The three pillars are:
For the construction and use of the ESCO pillars, the following modelling artefacts are used:
ESCO maintains two additional registers:
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Accreditation
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#AssociationObject
The generic class of extended directed associative relationships from a resource to a semantic asset.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#AwardingActivity
An awarding activity represents an activity related to the awarding of a qualification. It is used to specify an awarding body, a country or region where the qualification is awarded and optionally an awarding period.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#AwardingBody
"Additional properties defined by the QMS are:
- dcterms:spatial (0..1) main site location
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SkillCompetenceType
Sub-Typing of a Skill Concept:
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#ConceptScheme
The ESCO concept schemes (pillars)
The "current" ESCO scheme and historic versions of the ESCO scheme will be instances of this class. Typically, these support poly-hierarchy.
The ISCO representations that are the backbone of at least one ESCO version (v0) also will be represented by this concept scheme. Typically these do not have poly-hierarchy.
Provenance information that may be added:
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#EntryRequirement
Entry requirements are structured into categories such as work experience, pre-assessment or a specific qualification.
- The category of an entry requirement is given by dcterms:type property using a skos:Concept from the controlled vocabulary <http://data.europa.eu/esco/concept-scheme/entryrequirement-category>.
- The requirement level expresses the necessity. It is given by the esco:requirementLevel property using a skos:Concept from the controlled voabulary <http://data.europa.eu/esco/concept-scheme/entryrequirement-level>.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#EscoExtension
This class denotes concepts of non-EU relevance separate from the usual scope of ESCO.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Structure
A structure defines a tagging relationship between one or more conceptschemes and an ESCO pillar.
The structure identifies the predicate used for the relationship between an esco:MemberConcept and a skos:Concept that is part of the linked conceptscheme(s).
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#LabelRole
Allows to capture one or more particular characteristics of a name.
Example usage: Gender related terms.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#MemberConcept
Concepts of this class are specifically used to be referenced in CV or job postings. Typically these concepts are at the more specialized levels of the hierarchy. Example: A particular occupation, not a group of occupations. These concepts in general have However, some Member concept may be specializations of other ones. In general these specializations will not comply to (1). General group membership within ESCO pillars is provided by esco:memberOfGroup.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#NodeLiteral
Free text metadata fields, such as the description, a historical or additional note of a qualification can contain a plain text or a XHTML fragment as literal value. By using a NodeLiteral both the datatype of the literal as the language can be specified.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Occupation
The class of ESCO Occupation concepts. An Occuaption is an ESCO pillar concept (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#MemberConcept).
Characteristics of an Occupation:
An occupation may be related to
Occupations having a legal or other regulations in a specific region
ESCO Occupations are maintained in the ESCO concept scheme http://data.europa.eu/esco/ConceptScheme/ESCO_Occupations.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Qualification
A qualification is a formal outcome of an assessment and validation process, which is obtained when a competent body determines that an individual has achieved learning outcomes to given standards.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Recognition
The recognition class is used to specify information related to the formal recognition of a qualification and/or awarding body. It is used to model a national or regional authority that formally recognises a qualification and/or a certain awarding body
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Skill
The class of ESCO Skill concepts.
ESCO skills are sub-typed (e.g. to differentiate between knowledge and competence). This sub-typing is modelled using the concept scheme http://data.europa.eu/esco/ConceptScheme/SkillCompetenceType and its concept class http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SkillCompetenceType
This organization is modelled using the concept scheme http://data.europa.eu/esco/ConceptScheme/SkillReuseLevel and its concept class http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SkillReuseLevel ESCO skills with a different re-use applicability across sectors can be put in a hierarchical relation (skos:broader and skos:narrower) in acordance with the rules detailed by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SkillReuseLevel.
Characteristics
An ESCO Skill may be related to other ESCO concepts.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#WorkContext
The class of work contexts registered by ESCO A work context iIdentifies types of business, environmental conditions, types of product, etc. ESCO manages and organizes work context in the concept scheme: http://data.europa.eu/esco/ConceptScheme/WorkContext/cs
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#additionalNote
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isAssociationFor
The resource being described (the resource the association starts from e.g. a qualification). This property entails the inverse property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasAssociation.
has characteristics: functional
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#target
The associated resource. Refers to a node (e.g. a skos:Concept) in another established framework (e.g. a skill or occupation from the ESCO classification, a skill or occupation from the national classification system, the qualification level according the national qualification framework,…).
has characteristics: functional
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#awardingBodyDescription
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#memberOfISCOGroup
The direct hierarchical broader ISCO concept of the (subject) ESCO occupation. The 'direct' (or one step) relationship is to be understood in terms of extending the ISCO taxonomy the (object) concept belongs to.
The ISCO concept may be of any ISCO version. The ISCO version can be determined by the inScheme property on the ISCO concept and the version information on the ISCO concept scheme (referenced by the object - i.e. by the ISCO concept).
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasWorkContext
The possible working context of the (subject) occupation.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#structureFor
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasAccreditation
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasAssociation
The detailed (typed, annotated and documented) association (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#AssociationObject) from a resource (e.g. a qualification) to a node in an other established framework. The association identifies a related semantic asset from another established framework. The inverse relation of esco:isAssociationFor entails the property esco:hasAssociation.
has characteristics: inverse functional
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasAwardingActivity
an awarding activity of a qualification
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasAwardingBody
The institutiution, organisation or company that issues the (subject) qualification (certification).
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#codeList
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#codedProperty
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasEntryRequirement
an entry requirement of a qualification
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relatedEssentialSkill
The ESCO skill or competence that is essential for the subject occupation or skill.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasLabelRole
A tagging concept providing the gender specific typing of an ESCO label. Each ESCO label can have
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasNACECode
A tagging concept using the NACE codes to specify the industry sector of the tagged subject.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relatedOptionalSkill
The ESCO skill or competence that is relevant (but optional) for the subject occuption.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasPolyHierarchy
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasRecognition
IRI: http://purl.org/iso25964/DataSet/Versioning#hasVersionRecord
The dataset holds this statement using any applicable form
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isEssentialSkillFor
The inverse of esco:relatedEssentialSkill.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isIndirect
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isOptionalSkillFor
The inverse of esco:relatedOptionalSkill.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasISCED-FCode
A tagging concept identifying the ISCED 2013 FoET classification code (Field of Education Code). It is used to indicate the thematic area of a qualification.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#location
The Country or region the subject is associated with. Typically a tagging concept.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#noteLiteral
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#replacedBy
Typical for a deprecated concept that has been replaced by one or more other concepts.
has characteristics: transitive
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#replaces
Typical for a deprecated concept that replaces one or more other concepts.
has characteristics: transitive
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#requirementLevel
Refers to a skos:Concept that indicates the requirement level of a certain entry requirement. It indicates the necessity of the entry requirement
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#skillType
Type of competence (a tagging concept)
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#supplementaryDoc
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#supportedLanguage
Denotes a description of the languages supported by the (subject) concept scheme. Required for ESCO taxonomy or thesauri.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#targetFramework
The framework to which the resource being described is associated. It is the framework that describes the target resource (the associated resource) (e.g. ESCO classification system, national qualification framework system,..). It is recommended that the target framework is denoted by a known resource (e.g. a adms:Asset, a dcat:Dataset, a conceptscheme)
has characteristics: functional
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#refersConcept
The ESCO concept referred by the (subject) ESCO relationship. The esco:Relationship gives a more elaborate semantic description of related ESCO concepts. These related concepts are identied by the esco:Relationship propertief
has characteristics: functional
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#waysToAcquire
Refers to a skos:Concept that indicates whether the qualification can be acquired by validation of a formal, non-formal and/or informal learning processes.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isTransversal
Typical to indicate that a concept (like a skill) is not job or sector specific. It is cross sector.
May also be applied (if unambiguous) to qualifications and occupations.
Assertion (to 'true') is required in case transversality must be affirmed.
Skill re-usability levels can be tagged in case the level implies transversal scope of the skills having the re-usability level.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isoCountryCodeA2
ISO 3166 country code - A2
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isoCountryCodeA3
ISO 3166 country code - A3
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#nodeLiteral
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#targetDescription
A free-text description of a node in another established framework.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#targetName
The name or value of a node in another established framework.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#targetURL
The URL of a node in another established framework.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#editorialStatus
The business or editorial status of a concept or label
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#expirationPeriod
Period how long a qualification is valid.
Example: a qualification for aircraft pilot may be subject to hours flight and/or testing within a specified period in order to pro-long the qualification.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#expiryPeriod
The validity period of a qualification. The period for which a qualification is valid, after it is issued to an individual.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasECTSCreditPoints
The ECTS credit points assigned to a qualification
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasPolyHierarchy
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isIndirect
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isPartialQualification
Default value is 'false'^^xsd:boolean
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#language
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#referenceLanguage
QMS usage: The ISO 639-1 code of the language (2-char language code) in which information about the qualification is provided. This language will be used as the default reference language for the qualification.
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#reviewedAtTime
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#targetNotation
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#volumeOfLearning
Indicates how many hours of learning effort is needed to acquire a particular qualification (notional learning hours).
IRI: http://purl.org/iso25964/skos-thes#status
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/ConceptScheme/SkillReuseLevel
IRI: http://www.w3.org/2003/06/sw-vocab-status/ns#term_status
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#originalLabel
The original label of a concept of a support taxonomy. Provided in case the preferred label has been replaced by an ESCO specific one.
Typically used on arguable names for exceptional concepts like 'Country'
IRI: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#regulatedProfessionNote
The subject occupation is regulated according the description in the note. The note typically contains a hyperlink.
This HTML document was obtained by processing the OWL ontology source code through LODE, Live OWL Documentation Environment, developed by Silvio Peroni.
Can be used to specify: