Linked Data Sources Related to Competence

Dear all,

as a part of my PhD in Hypios [1], I am working on identifying experts on
the Web (escepially the Social Web) in order to find potential problem
solvers for particular problems on Hypios. Hypios is a marketplace for
problems and solutions trying to connect companies with particular (R&D)
problems, and people who can solve them. As the Web has become a place full
of traces of users' activities, connections, etc. we believe that we can
retrieve those traces and make a jugement of peoples' competences. My PhD is
about using Semantic Web to do this.

As a first step, we look at the Linked Data Cloud [2] for evidences of
users' competence (research articles, interests, wiki pages, other
user-generated content, etc.). Since the original LOD cloud doesn't make the
job of finding competence-related sources very easy, I have made a map of
Linked Data sources that contain evidence of users' competence. The map
should be useful to all the people building Semantic Web applications that
deal with users' competences. I would like to share this map with you and
get your comments and suggestions for improvement

You can find the map here:
http://research.hypios.com/mstankovic/lod-competence/
and a corresponding blog post here:
http://research.hypios.com/mstankovic/2009/12/08/evidence-of-competence-on-linked-data/

If you find anything missing, or have any ideas how to improve it, please do
send your comments (by e-mail, or even better - directly on the page in the
comment form).

I thank you in forward.

Best regards,

[1] http://www.hypios.biz
[2] http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/pub/lod-datasets_2009-03-05.html

Milan Stankovic
PhD Student @ Hypios.com

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