An Ontology Based Tool for Competency Management and Learning Paths

Ontologies have already been created in different scientific areas, including knowledge and competency management, however few ontological applications are available at the moment. In this paper we present an ontology based application that we have developed for competency management and learning paths. Specifically, we provide an overview of competency management and related work in this area, a description of the competency ontology and a functional and architectural analysis. This system is being currently deployed for research purposes in a national subsidiary of Microsoft, the IT services multinational firm, with a Microsoft .NET implementation communicating with the competency ontology.