OCN: Competency Explorer

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The Open Competencies Network (OCN) Competency Explorer, aims to make competency frameworks readily available to humans and machines by developing a membership trust network (Trust) of open registries holding one or more competency frameworks and by enabling search and retrieval of those frameworks and their competencies from any registry node in the network.

The OCN broadly takes the concept of a competency to include any attribute required to perform a work role including knowledge, skills, abilities, dispositions, tasks, and habits of mind. The Network understands a competency framework (Asset) as an instance of a logically related set of competencies based on a specific competency framework model that has been encoded using a recognized metamodel standard such as, but not limited to, 1edTech’s (IMS) CASE, Credential Engine’s CTDL-ASN, and University of Washington’s ASN. Since the Competency Explorer standard does not require a registry to natively use any particular metamodel, it relies on a transformation, or interchange service to transform instance data following one metamodel into instance data following a different metamodel. In the Competency Explorer instance based on this specification, the transformation service used is Rosetta Lenssm by Eduworkstm.

The Network infrastructure has formal mechanisms of trust that protect the integrity and rights of registry owners and competency framework contributors by promoting practices that honor constraints on access, use and retention of retrieved competency frameworks and competencies.

Resources

TAW Meeting Decks Covering the Competency Explorer

For more information on TAW activities related to the Competency Explorer see the TAW Meetings wiki. The Competency Explorer was formerly called the OCFC Search Service and that is reflected in the older presentations.

June 22, 2022 meeting topics: Continue to build out use case requirements via the TAW Use Case wiki.

June 8, 2022 meeting topics: Continue to build out use case requirements via the TAW Use Case wiki.

May 25, 2022 meeting topics: Continue to build out use case requirements via the TAW Use Case wiki.

May 11, 2022 meeting topics: Continue to build out use case requirements via the TAW Use Case wiki.

April 13, 2022 meeting topics: Technical Requirements Arising from Initial OCFC Search Service Use Cases

February 2, 2022 meeting topics: Initial OCFC Search Service Use Cases and RWSC Use Cases for Search Service

January 12, 2022 meeting topics: Discussion: Decentralizing the Metamodel Interchange and Initial OCFC Search Service Use Cases

December 8, 2021 meeting topics: Completing the OCF Collab Search Service - Updating the Transaction Log Infrastructure and Decentralizing the Metamodel Interchanger

November 10, 2021 meeting topic: OCF Collab Search Service Status

October 13, 2021 meeting topic: OCF Collab Service - Conceptual Model & Its Components

September 29, 2021 meeting topic: OCF Collab Service - Pan-Ecosystem Search of Competencies & Skills

Network architecture, protocols and data model design

Draft specifications for the Competency Explorer from the design phase (October 2019–April 2020) are set out below. This documentation uses the old name: Open Competency Framework Collaborative Search Service.

Technical Planning and Implementation