Competence Manager—Applying the Semantic Web in Practice

A corporate memory is an explicit, disembodied, and persistent representation of knowledge and information in an organization. Competence management is an essential part of a corporate memory. In this paper we introduce a Competence Manager, which allows managing and publishing competencies and other relevant resources about a set of topics. The knowledge base in the Competence Manager is implemented using ontologies. Thus, in this paper we demonstrate, how the Semantic Web technologies can be used in a practical application on the area of competence management. The frontend of the Competence Manager is accessed using a Web-based interface, which connects to the back-end system through a Web service interface. The Competence Manager provides operations for querying the knowledge base, managing the ontologies, and providing reports about the resources stored the knowledge base.