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The Open Competencies Network (OCN) Competency Explorer, aims to make competency descriptions readily available to humans and machines by developing a membership trust network 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 regardless of the technical standard used to express the competency data.


>> [[OCF_Collab_Network|'''OCFCollab Home''']] >> [[OCF_Collab_Network:Workgroups|'''Workgroups''']] >> ''Search Service''
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 Lens<sup>sm</sup> by Eduworks<sup>tm</sup>.


= Competency Explorer =
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.
==Description==
 
The OCF Collab competencies search service, 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.
* Short Prototype Search Service [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19WfRukAa7mQ9Y35d_TmWce7SAAH6OEVe/view?usp=sharing Demonstration Video]
 
== Competency Explorer Enhancement Project ==
*'''[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZSpKPHSAwHS4cuKUjz7Pujmz-pS_gIXP-jb_FJmPvuw/edit?usp=sharing Competency Explorer Enhancement Project Final Report] ('''April 27, 2023): describing the enhancements implemented during the project and suggesting a pilot project to demonstrate the use of the Competency Explorer.
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w_0HDNIA9GZq76txOuS8e-OhmKJiHe9Azjuq1BfrxQ0/edit# '''OCN Competency Explorer: Technical Instructions for Data Providers'''] (April 2022): This document is intended for organizations who may provide data for the OCN Competency Explorer and contains technical details about what doing so entails.  It is intended to be read in conjunction with the documentation of the Network Architecture, Protocol and Data Model specification that was created at the beginning of the  Competency Explorer project (which was then called the Open Competency Framework Collaborative Search Service). It should be noted that not all of that specification has been implemented, and the Competency Explorer project will be extending the data model. This document will indicate where the specification documents are to be updated.
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E1wKHmdfZU-ZKcffGL0LQjp9bTBU2gGOXWPPmlJQ57M/edit#heading=h.we2os9d06uqo '''Framework for Competency Explorer: Practices, Policies and Governance Recommendations'''] (February 23, 2023): This draft framework outlines the Open Competency Network's [[OCF Collab Network:RWSC|Advancing Open Competencies Workgroup]] and [[OCN: Technical Advisory Workgroup|Technical Advisory Workgroup]] recommendations for practices, policies, and governance to ensure proper use of the CE and its sustainability.  
*[[Competency Explorer Use Case Analysis|'''Competency Explorer Use Case Analysis''']]: Use cases from requirements working group (RWSC)  analysed to elicit the technical features that would be required for each use case.
*[[Competency Explorer Feature Analysis|'''Competency Explorer Feature Analysis''']]: The features required for all the use cases listed with details such as which use cases they fulfil.
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xb1571FNg7LqiLn5OSpMku5JBl4B1mL4b1R8n0-KwW8/edit?usp=sharing '''Competency Explorer Project Plan'''] (Project Plan Number: OCFC: PP-002) describes the project analyse and implement where possible the features required for the proposed use cases.
*'''Search technology demonstrator https://tool.ocf-collab.org/''' - This is a staging server used during the development project, that means it is used for testing and is not "production quality". In particular it does not have a full complement of data and its functionality will vary and occasionally fail. As it is a technology demonstrator less attention has been paid to user interface and user experience than would be necessary in production-level search and exploration node; it demonstrates the data that is available and the searches that can be built on that data, the architecture of the Competency Explorer is such that each node would be able to implement user interfaces that met their own requirements.
*[https://github.com/t3-innovation-network/OCF-Collab '''OCFC Github Repo''']  ■ [https://github.com/t3-innovation-network/OCF-Collab#readme '''OCFC Search & Retrieval Admin Documentation''' (draft)]
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bFDlZG2a0nAdFJanK8eyOWrLeQ7KHB0YPBAoZmhV7JI/edit '''''2020-21 Search Service Agenda & Notes''''']
 
== TAW Meeting Decks Covering the Competency Explorer ==
For more information on TAW activities related to the Competency Explorer see the [https://wiki.t3networkhub.org/wiki/OCF_Collab_Network:tawMeet?veaction=edit TAW Meetings wiki]. The Competency Explorer was formerly called the OCFC Search Service and that is reflected in the older presentations.  


The OCF Collab broadly defines 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 Collab defines 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, IMS Global’s CASE, Credential Engine’s CTDL-ASN, and University of Washington’s ASN. Since the OCF Collab 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 OCF Collab instance based on this specification, the transformation service used is Rosetta Lens<sup>sm</sup> by Eduworks<sup>tm</sup>.
'''July 19, 2023: T3 Mid-year Meeting'''


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.
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eNVAWpjPeFoNQvQKEWdLrOYvPVh6JLEOZkuAEQjRwLY/edit?usp=sharing Unlocking Data Ecosystems: DESM and Competency Explorer T3 Mid-year Meeting Slides]
 
'''March 29, 2023: Open Competencies Network Meeting'''


== Resources ==
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oro8Zq96In1bIjlkLHc0ytBCb-D4FJrfjpVjB2CDyNc/edit#slide=id.g21047c3c943_0_25 Competency Explorer Accomplishments: Slides 19-25]
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xb1571FNg7LqiLn5OSpMku5JBl4B1mL4b1R8n0-KwW8/edit?usp=sharing Competency Explorer Project Plan] (Project Plan Number: OCFC: PP-002)
*[https://wiki.t3networkhub.org/wiki/OCF_Collab_Network:rwscUCanalysis Competency Explorer Use Cases Analysis]
*[https://wiki.t3networkhub.org/wiki/OCF_Collab_Network:OCFCRequiredFeatures Competency Explorer Required Features]
*Short Prototype Search Service [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19WfRukAa7mQ9Y35d_TmWce7SAAH6OEVe/view?usp=sharing Demonstration Video]
*Search Prototype https://tool.ocf-collab.org/ - This is a prototype developed in 2020 that is limited to 300 frameworks, with 100 frameworks each coming from three registries using three different competency schemas: (1) Credential Engine Registry using CTDL-ASN, (2) IMS Global Case Network using CASE, and (3) Desire2Learn using ASN.  A metamodel interchange API is used to translate between the schemas, so that each framework is available in its native schema or in both of the other two. These options are found via a download button located at the bottom, right of each competency framework detail page.  The 300 frameworks are limited to four industries.  To explore the prototype, use one of these keywords: manufacturing, industry, agriculture, or culinary.  The search index for this prototype includes Competency statements, Competency Names, and Descriptions.
*[https://github.com/t3-innovation-network/OCF-Collab OCFC Github Repo]  ■ [https://github.com/t3-innovation-network/OCF-Collab#readme OCFC Search & Retrieval Admin Documentation (draft)]
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bFDlZG2a0nAdFJanK8eyOWrLeQ7KHB0YPBAoZmhV7JI/edit ''2020-21 Search Service Agenda & Notes'']


== TAW Meeting Decks Covering the Competency Explorer (formerly OCFC Search Service ==
'''March 2023: T3 Leadership Call'''
'''July 27, 2022 meeting topics: OCFC Search Service is now''' '''Competency Explorer and New project to add features / capabilities for the Competency Explorer'''
*Full draft of project plan [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xb1571FNg7LqiLn5OSpMku5JBl4B1mL4b1R8n0-KwW8/edit OCFC: PP-002  Availability and Enhancement of OCFC Competency Explorer]
*Associated use case [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vTUnYyj8O88jL2FHdDo4y1kZYckumXOrpnAaiHgYzJk/edit OCFC:UC-004 Enhanced Capabilities for Competency Search and Retrieval]
*Key points:
**The project proposal has two deliverables
#Ensure that a demonstrator instance of the OCFC Competency Explorer is maintained for the duration of the project.
#The incremental evaluation and development (if possible) of enhanced capabilities for competency search and retrieval.


* The deliverables will be technology demonstrators, not polished production-level user experiences.
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_q8dK-gV2Xw41mWB0Qsex_IIit0emB3D6tFOZpG1D_k/edit#slide=id.p Competency Explorer Summary]
* The process is modelled on [[wikipedia:Feature-driven_development|Feature Driven Development]], an agile methodology suitable for such explorative projects.
* The feature list is a "wish list" of new capabilities, not all will be implemented. Some will not be feasible given the distributed and heterogeneous nature of the data, level of funding, and various organizations involved. The project will implement some features and identify why others cannot be implemented.
* Take note of the Assumptions and Risks section.


'''July 13, 2022 meeting topics: Renaming: OCFC Search Service will become:''' '''Competency Explorer and''' '''New project to add features / capabilities for the Competency Explorer'''
#[[OCF Collab Network:rwscUCanalysis|Analysis of Uses Cases]] from RWSC is complete,  and has yielded
##'''Requirements''' for the search service to fulfill an identified '''role''' in meeting the use case
##'''Assumptions''' regarding '''data''' and '''other systems''' need to be available.
##Many of the requirements are shared across several use cases.
#[[OCF Collab Network:OCFCRequiredFeatures|OCFC Required Features]] page collates these required features /  capabilities, and groups them thematically. For each requirement it lists
##the uses cases that require that feature / capability;
##the role Competency Explorer plays in meeting that use case
##the assumptions made in order for it to play that role..
#The next step is to collate these new required features / capabilities into a project proposal.
'''June 22, 2022 meeting topics: Continue to build out use case requirements via the [[OCF Collab Network:rwscUCanalysis|TAW Use Case wiki]].'''  
'''June 22, 2022 meeting topics: Continue to build out use case requirements via the [[OCF Collab Network:rwscUCanalysis|TAW Use Case wiki]].'''  
*[[OCF Collab Network:rwscUCanalysis]]
*[[OCF Collab Network:rwscUCanalysis]]
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** [https://drive.google.com/file/d/11KyFIESTzMhQuwR15sOgV-NzoCCL3RuM/view?usp=sharing Video]  
** [https://drive.google.com/file/d/11KyFIESTzMhQuwR15sOgV-NzoCCL3RuM/view?usp=sharing Video]  


==Documentation==
==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.
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19rsTddjg7IuV2OU56ZsN6zx9W5sE9TsqFLY-f_wp7YA/edit?usp=sharing Chapter 01. Getting Started]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19rsTddjg7IuV2OU56ZsN6zx9W5sE9TsqFLY-f_wp7YA/edit?usp=sharing Chapter 01. Getting Started]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/12rZPRWsLxOJ6MMadpOjeCMd5ac0Br2UURCJDGIA9dWM/edit?usp=sharing Chapter 02. Glossary]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/12rZPRWsLxOJ6MMadpOjeCMd5ac0Br2UURCJDGIA9dWM/edit?usp=sharing Chapter 02. Glossary]

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The Open Competencies Network (OCN) Competency Explorer, aims to make competency descriptions readily available to humans and machines by developing a membership trust network 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 regardless of the technical standard used to express the competency data.

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.

Competency Explorer Enhancement Project

  • Competency Explorer Enhancement Project Final Report (April 27, 2023): describing the enhancements implemented during the project and suggesting a pilot project to demonstrate the use of the Competency Explorer.
  • OCN Competency Explorer: Technical Instructions for Data Providers (April 2022): This document is intended for organizations who may provide data for the OCN Competency Explorer and contains technical details about what doing so entails.  It is intended to be read in conjunction with the documentation of the Network Architecture, Protocol and Data Model specification that was created at the beginning of the  Competency Explorer project (which was then called the Open Competency Framework Collaborative Search Service). It should be noted that not all of that specification has been implemented, and the Competency Explorer project will be extending the data model. This document will indicate where the specification documents are to be updated.
  • Framework for Competency Explorer: Practices, Policies and Governance Recommendations (February 23, 2023): This draft framework outlines the Open Competency Network's Advancing Open Competencies Workgroup and Technical Advisory Workgroup recommendations for practices, policies, and governance to ensure proper use of the CE and its sustainability.  
  • Competency Explorer Use Case Analysis: Use cases from requirements working group (RWSC) analysed to elicit the technical features that would be required for each use case.
  • Competency Explorer Feature Analysis: The features required for all the use cases listed with details such as which use cases they fulfil.
  • Competency Explorer Project Plan (Project Plan Number: OCFC: PP-002) describes the project analyse and implement where possible the features required for the proposed use cases.
  • Search technology demonstrator https://tool.ocf-collab.org/ - This is a staging server used during the development project, that means it is used for testing and is not "production quality". In particular it does not have a full complement of data and its functionality will vary and occasionally fail. As it is a technology demonstrator less attention has been paid to user interface and user experience than would be necessary in production-level search and exploration node; it demonstrates the data that is available and the searches that can be built on that data, the architecture of the Competency Explorer is such that each node would be able to implement user interfaces that met their own requirements.
  • OCFC Github Repo ■ OCFC Search & Retrieval Admin Documentation (draft)
  • 2020-21 Search Service Agenda & Notes

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.

July 19, 2023: T3 Mid-year Meeting

March 29, 2023: Open Competencies Network Meeting

March 2023: T3 Leadership Call

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

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