Accreditation

Can be used to specify: - the agent that was primarily responsible for the accreditation - the date the accreditation was formally approved - a review date or expiry date - related documents with additional information about the accreditation or used standards and procedures in the assessment and quality assurance of the qualificationThe accreditation class is used to specify information related to the accreditation, monitoring and quality assurance of a qualification and/or awarding body

Comment
enCan be used to specify: - the agent that was primarily responsible for the accreditation - the date the accreditation was formally approved - a review date or expiry date - related documents with additional information about the accreditation or used standards and procedures in the assessment and quality assurance of the qualification
enThe accreditation class is used to specify information related to the accreditation, monitoring and quality assurance of a qualification and/or awarding body
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
model#
Label
enAccreditation
SeeAlso
has accreditation
Comment
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enAdditional note
Range
node literal
SeeAlso
node literal

association from

The resource being described (the resource the association starts from e.g. a qualification). This property entails the inverse property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasAssociation.

Comment
enThe resource being described (the resource the association starts from e.g. a qualification). This property entails the inverse property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasAssociation.
Domain
Association object
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enassociation from
SeeAlso
Association object
has association

Association object

The generic class of extended directed associative relationships from a resource to a semantic asset.This class relates a qualification to a node from another established framework or classification system. This allows to specify metadata on the association: - The relationship type (describing the semantics of the association) is given by the dcterms:type property using a skos:Concept from the controlled vocabulary <http://data.europa.eu/esco/concept-scheme/association-type>. - The framework and/or classification system to which the related semantic asset belongs is given by the esco:targetFramework property. - The resource being described (the resource the association starts from e.g. a qualification) is given by esco:isAssociationFor and the associated resource by esco:target."@en; rdfs:comment "Used to express a learning outcome of a qualification as a relation from a qualification to an ESCO skill, competence or knowdledge (see <http://data.europa.eu/esco/association-type#learning-outcome>)."@en; rdfs:comment "Used to related a qualification to an occupation from an international, national or regional occupation classification system (see <http://data.europa.eu/esco/association-type#related-occupation>)."@en; rdfs:comment "Used to link a qualification to a international, national or regional qualification framework level (see <http://data.europa.eu/esco/association-type#qf-level>)."@en; rdfs:comment "List of properties: - dcterms:type (0..1) - dcterms:description (0..n) - dcterms:issued (0..1) - esco:targetFramework (1..1) - esco:isAssociationFor (1..1) - esco:target (0..1) - esco:targetDescription (0..n) - esco:targetNotation(0..n) - esco:targetName(0..n) - esco:targetURL (0..1)

Comment
enThe generic class of extended directed associative relationships from a resource to a semantic asset.
enThis class relates a qualification to a node from another established framework or classification system. This allows to specify metadata on the association: - The relationship type (describing the semantics of the association) is given by the dcterms:type property using a skos:Concept from the controlled vocabulary <http://data.europa.eu/esco/concept-scheme/association-type>. - The framework and/or classification system to which the related semantic asset belongs is given by the esco:targetFramework property. - The resource being described (the resource the association starts from e.g. a qualification) is given by esco:isAssociationFor and the associated resource by esco:target."@en; rdfs:comment "Used to express a learning outcome of a qualification as a relation from a qualification to an ESCO skill, competence or knowdledge (see <http://data.europa.eu/esco/association-type#learning-outcome>)."@en; rdfs:comment "Used to related a qualification to an occupation from an international, national or regional occupation classification system (see <http://data.europa.eu/esco/association-type#related-occupation>)."@en; rdfs:comment "Used to link a qualification to a international, national or regional qualification framework level (see <http://data.europa.eu/esco/association-type#qf-level>)."@en; rdfs:comment "List of properties: - dcterms:type (0..1) - dcterms:description (0..n) - dcterms:issued (0..1) - esco:targetFramework (1..1) - esco:isAssociationFor (1..1) - esco:target (0..1) - esco:targetDescription (0..n) - esco:targetNotation(0..n) - esco:targetName(0..n) - esco:targetURL (0..1)
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enAssociation object
SubClassOf
MaxCardinality
1
OnProperty
association to
Cardinality
1
OnProperty
target framework
Cardinality
1
OnProperty
association from

association to

The associated resource. Refers to a node (e.g. a skos:Concept) in another established framework (e.g. a skill or occupation from the ESCO classification, a skill or occupation from the national classification system, the qualification level according the national qualification framework,…).

Comment
enThe associated resource. Refers to a node (e.g. a skos:Concept) in another established framework (e.g. a skill or occupation from the ESCO classification, a skill or occupation from the national classification system, the qualification level according the national qualification framework,…).
Domain
Association object
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enassociation to
Range
Resource
SeeAlso
Association object
target framework

association type

The class of association types used in the metadata schema. The relations from a qualification to other semantic assets (nodes from other semantic frameworks and or classification systems) are 'typed relations'. The different association types and their semantics in the metadata schema are SKOS Concepts that are part of a taxonomy managed by the metadata schema (see <http://data.europa.eu/esco/concept-scheme/association-type>)

Comment
enThe class of association types used in the metadata schema. The relations from a qualification to other semantic assets (nodes from other semantic frameworks and or classification systems) are 'typed relations'. The different association types and their semantics in the metadata schema are SKOS Concepts that are part of a taxonomy managed by the metadata schema (see <http://data.europa.eu/esco/concept-scheme/association-type>)
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enassociation type
SeeAlso
Association object
SubClassOf
Concept
Deprecated
true
Label
enAwarding Bodies Concept Scheme

Awarding activity

An awarding activity represents an activity related to the awarding of a qualification. It is used to specify an awarding body, a country or region where the qualification is awarded and optionally an awarding period.

Comment
enAn awarding activity represents an activity related to the awarding of a qualification. It is used to specify an awarding body, a country or region where the qualification is awarded and optionally an awarding period.
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enAwarding activity
SeeAlso
has awarding activity

Awarding body

"Additional properties defined by the QMS are: - dcterms:spatial (0..1) main site locationAn awarding body is an institution, organization or company that is recognised (official or otherwise) for issuing qualifications (certificates, diplomas or titles) and formally recognising the learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and/or competences) of an individual, following an assessment and validation procedure.For the minimal set of properties on an AwardingBody see usage note http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent.

Comment
en"Additional properties defined by the QMS are: - dcterms:spatial (0..1) main site location
enAn awarding body is an institution, organization or company that is recognised (official or otherwise) for issuing qualifications (certificates, diplomas or titles) and formally recognising the learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and/or competences) of an individual, following an assessment and validation procedure.
enFor the minimal set of properties on an AwardingBody see usage note http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent.
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enAwarding body
SeeAlso
Agent
Organization
SubClassOf
Organization
3 December 2013

awarding body (descriptive)

An awarding body provided using a descriptive text. A more precise definition of an awarding body known by ESCO can be given using http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasAwardingBody

Comment
enAn awarding body provided using a descriptive text. A more precise definition of an awarding body known by ESCO can be given using http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasAwardingBody
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enawarding body (descriptive)
Range
XMLLiteral
3 December 2013

belongs to ISCO Group with code

The direct hierarchical broader ISCO concept of the (subject) ESCO occupation. The 'direct' (or one step) relationship is to be understood in terms of extending the ISCO taxonomy the (object) concept belongs to. The ISCO concept may be of any ISCO version. The ISCO version can be determined by the inScheme property on the ISCO concept and the version information on the ISCO concept scheme (referenced by the object - i.e. by the ISCO concept).

Comment
enThe direct hierarchical broader ISCO concept of the (subject) ESCO occupation. The 'direct' (or one step) relationship is to be understood in terms of extending the ISCO taxonomy the (object) concept belongs to. The ISCO concept may be of any ISCO version. The ISCO version can be determined by the inScheme property on the ISCO concept and the version information on the ISCO concept scheme (referenced by the object - i.e. by the ISCO concept).
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enbelongs to ISCO Group with code
8 June 2016

broader instance

The Leaf Group the (subject) ESCO member concept (Skill or Occupation or Qualification) belongs to. Only member properties having a Leaf Group type as broader concept must have this property, Specializations of member concepts (like Faceted Concepts) do not have this property.

Comment
enThe Leaf Group the (subject) ESCO member concept (Skill or Occupation or Qualification) belongs to. Only member properties having a Leaf Group type as broader concept must have this property, Specializations of member concepts (like Faceted Concepts) do not have this property.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain
Member concept
Simple ESCO concept
InverseOf
narrower instance
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enbroader instance
Range
Leaf-group concept
SubPropertyOf
broaderInstantial
containing group
10 August 2014

can have work context

The possible working context of the (subject) occupation.

Comment
enThe possible working context of the (subject) occupation.
Date Issued
10 August 2014
Date Modified
10 August 2014
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
encan have work context
Range
Work context
SubPropertyOf
subject
3 December 2013

Competence sub-type

Sub-Typing of a Skill Concept: - Skill/Competence - Knowledge

Comment
enSub-Typing of a Skill Concept: - Skill/Competence - Knowledge
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enCompetence sub-type
SubClassOf
Concept
8 June 2016

compound term

A compound equivalence label for the subject concept. The subject concept is a Simple ESCO concept used as a component of a Faceted ESCO concept (i.e. a compound concept). The label of this faceted concept is a compound term (i.e. a split non preferred term) and the value of esco:plusUF (i.e. a UF++). There can be any number of compound terms per language and per faceted concept.

Comment
enA compound equivalence label for the subject concept. The subject concept is a Simple ESCO concept used as a component of a Faceted ESCO concept (i.e. a compound concept). The label of this faceted concept is a compound term (i.e. a split non preferred term) and the value of esco:plusUF (i.e. a UF++). There can be any number of compound terms per language and per faceted concept.
Date Issued
18 February 2014
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain
Simple ESCO concept
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
encompound term
PropertyChainAxiom

A52

First
prefLabel
Rest

A53

First
plusUFTerm
Rest
nil
Range
SplitNonPreferredTerm
1 April 2016

Concept scheme (ESCO pillar)

The ESCO concept schemes (pillars) The "current" ESCO scheme and historic versions of the ESCO scheme will be instances of this class. Typically, these support poly-hierarchy. The ISCO representations that are the backbone of at least one ESCO version (v0) also will be represented by this concept scheme. Typically these do not have poly-hierarchy. Provenance information that may be added: - rightsHolder: the owner (http://purl.org/dc/terms/rightsHolder) - required - publishing status: (http://purl.org/iso25964/skos-thes#status) - required - creator : the author (http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator) - required - contributor : modifier (http://purl.org/dc/terms/contributor) - required - modified : last modification date (http://purl.org/dc/terms/modified) - required

Comment
enThe ESCO concept schemes (pillars) The "current" ESCO scheme and historic versions of the ESCO scheme will be instances of this class. Typically, these support poly-hierarchy. The ISCO representations that are the backbone of at least one ESCO version (v0) also will be represented by this concept scheme. Typically these do not have poly-hierarchy. Provenance information that may be added: - rightsHolder: the owner (http://purl.org/dc/terms/rightsHolder) - required - publishing status: (http://purl.org/iso25964/skos-thes#status) - required - creator : the author (http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator) - required - contributor : modifier (http://purl.org/dc/terms/contributor) - required - modified : last modification date (http://purl.org/dc/terms/modified) - required
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
1 April 2016
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enConcept scheme (ESCO pillar)
SeeAlso
Contributor
Creator
Date Modified
Rights Holder
SubClassOf
Concept Scheme
8 June 2016

constructed from ESCO concept

The unique (simple) ESCO concept used to construct the (subject) faceted ESCO concept. Example (started): Simple concept Teacher is specialized to identify teacher at different education levels. - The simple (member) occupation is: "Teacher" - Assume we have a classification of the levels of education (e.g. "primary school", "high school", "university") - The constructed faceted (member) concepts that will be: "primary school teacher", "high school teacher" and "university teacher" (this last one occasionally re-labeled as "university professor") - Each of the constructed faceted (member) concepts will indicate the "teacher" also as a skos:broader concept. - Each of the constructed faceted (member) concepts will indicate the "teacher" as the esco:constructedFrom concept. Example (completed): Nesting facets - Teacher of a subject at a school level - Assume we have a classification of subjects of education (e.g. "mother tongue", "mathematics", "theorethical quantum mechanics"). Two facet groups are created for this facet (education subject): 1) Facet Group: Basic Education Subjects (with "mother tongue", "mathematics") 2) Facet Group: Advanced Education Subjects (with "mother tongue", "mathematics", "theorethical quantum mechanics") - The faceted concepts of the 'started' part of the example ("primary school teacher", "high school teacher", "university teacher") can be further specialized with the 'Basic Education Subjects' or 'Advanced Education Subjects'. - The resulting constructed facets can be "high school teacher mathematics", "university teacher mathematics", "university teacher theorethical quantum mechanics", ... - The skos:broader for the new faceted concepts are: 1) for "university teacher mathematics" and for "university teacher theorethical quantum mechanics" : "university teacher" 2) for "high school teacher mathematics" : "high school teacher" 3) ... - Each of these (more) specialized faceted concepts all have the (simple) ESCO occupation "Teacher" as value for esco:constructedFrom

Comment
enThe unique (simple) ESCO concept used to construct the (subject) faceted ESCO concept. Example (started): Simple concept Teacher is specialized to identify teacher at different education levels. - The simple (member) occupation is: "Teacher" - Assume we have a classification of the levels of education (e.g. "primary school", "high school", "university") - The constructed faceted (member) concepts that will be: "primary school teacher", "high school teacher" and "university teacher" (this last one occasionally re-labeled as "university professor") - Each of the constructed faceted (member) concepts will indicate the "teacher" also as a skos:broader concept. - Each of the constructed faceted (member) concepts will indicate the "teacher" as the esco:constructedFrom concept. Example (completed): Nesting facets - Teacher of a subject at a school level - Assume we have a classification of subjects of education (e.g. "mother tongue", "mathematics", "theorethical quantum mechanics"). Two facet groups are created for this facet (education subject): 1) Facet Group: Basic Education Subjects (with "mother tongue", "mathematics") 2) Facet Group: Advanced Education Subjects (with "mother tongue", "mathematics", "theorethical quantum mechanics") - The faceted concepts of the 'started' part of the example ("primary school teacher", "high school teacher", "university teacher") can be further specialized with the 'Basic Education Subjects' or 'Advanced Education Subjects'. - The resulting constructed facets can be "high school teacher mathematics", "university teacher mathematics", "university teacher theorethical quantum mechanics", ... - The skos:broader for the new faceted concepts are: 1) for "university teacher mathematics" and for "university teacher theorethical quantum mechanics" : "university teacher" 2) for "high school teacher mathematics" : "high school teacher" 3) ... - Each of these (more) specialized faceted concepts all have the (simple) ESCO occupation "Teacher" as value for esco:constructedFrom
Date Issued
3 February 2014
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain
Faceted ESCO concept
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enconstructed from ESCO concept
Range
Member concept
Simple ESCO concept
Rule
If: - FC esco:constructedFrom SC - FC esco:plusUF UF - lang(UF/xl:literalForm) = L - SC xl:prefLabel PLsc - lang(PLsc/xl:literalForm) = L Then - PLsc iso-thes:plusUFTerm UF - UF iso-thes:plusUseTerm PLsc
SubPropertyOf
has broader transitive
8 June 2016

containing group

The ESCO Group (pillar) concept containing the subject ESCO concept as a member.

Comment
enThe ESCO Group (pillar) concept containing the subject ESCO concept as a member.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain
Member concept
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
encontaining group
PropertyChainAxiom

A11

First
broader instance
Rest

A46

First
has broader transitive
Rest
nil

A12

First
constructed from ESCO concept
Rest

A31

First
broader instance
Rest

A32

First
has broader transitive
Rest
nil
Range
Group concept
SubPropertyOf
has broader transitive
10 June 2016

Country

Relevant standards for country locations are documented under the super class: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Location

Comment
enRelevant standards for country locations are documented under the super class: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Location
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
10 June 2016
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enCountry
SubClassOf
Location
10 June 2016

country code (A2)

ISO 3166 country code - A2

Comment
enISO 3166 country code - A2
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
10 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain
Country
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
encountry code (A2)
Range
NMTOKEN
10 June 2016

country code (A3)

ISO 3166 country code - A3

Comment
enISO 3166 country code - A3
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
10 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain
Country
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
encountry code (A3)
Range
NMTOKEN
21 June 2016

defines structure for

Date Created
21 June 2016
Date Modified
21 June 2016
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
endefines structure for
Range
Concept scheme (ESCO pillar)
SeeAlso
ESCO Structure
has code list
SubPropertyOf
topObjectProperty
8 June 2016

division characteristic

The ESCO facet group the thesaurus array is being built from. When an ESCO concept is specialized by a facet group, the ESCO thesaurus introduces that set (or branch) of specializations with a Thesaurus.Array. Example: The occupation "Teacher" can be specialized by 'education level' or by 'education subject'. At concept development time this is typically specified with respective esco:facet properties, one identifying the facet-group for education level, anoher identifying the facet-group holding the instructed subject areas. At concept publication time, each specializing facet will be represented as an iso-thes:ThesaurusArray having as members the (compound) faceted concepts. For each ESCO thesaurus array this property (esco:hasDivisionCharacteristic) recalls the FacetGroup it was created for. Note: Complementary to esco:hasDivisionCharacteristic the iso-thes:superOrdinate identifies the ESCO member concept used to create the faceted concepts that are members of the thesaurus array.

Comment
enThe ESCO facet group the thesaurus array is being built from. When an ESCO concept is specialized by a facet group, the ESCO thesaurus introduces that set (or branch) of specializations with a Thesaurus.Array. Example: The occupation "Teacher" can be specialized by 'education level' or by 'education subject'. At concept development time this is typically specified with respective esco:facet properties, one identifying the facet-group for education level, anoher identifying the facet-group holding the instructed subject areas. At concept publication time, each specializing facet will be represented as an iso-thes:ThesaurusArray having as members the (compound) faceted concepts. For each ESCO thesaurus array this property (esco:hasDivisionCharacteristic) recalls the FacetGroup it was created for. Note: Complementary to esco:hasDivisionCharacteristic the iso-thes:superOrdinate identifies the ESCO member concept used to create the faceted concepts that are members of the thesaurus array.
Date Issued
7 March 2014
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain
ThesaurusArray
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
endivision characteristic
Range
Facet concept group
SeeAlso
specializing facet
superOrdinate

Document

duration

eCF30

IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
eneCF30

ECTS credit points

The ECTS credit points assigned to a qualification

Comment
enThe ECTS credit points assigned to a qualification
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enECTS credit points
Range
decimal

EQF2012

IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enEQF2012
8 June 2016

ESCO Concept

The class of ESCO pillar concepts. ESCO pillar concepts are divided in tree semantic classes: esco:Occupation, esco:Skill and esco:Qualification, each organized in a dedicated ConceptScheme. All concepts are specializations of skos:Concept and are structured using the skos semantic relationships. - skos:mappingRelation is used to relate ESCO concepts to similar concepts in other concept schemes (e.g. ISCO-08 or ROME). The mapping to ISCO has particular business relevance and uses a special mapping sub-property (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Occupation and http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#memberOfISCOGroup). - sub-properties of skos:related are used to express special relations among ESCO pillar concepts. (e.g. http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isEssentialSkillFor) - sub-properties of the DCMI terms:subject capture codified characteristics of ESCO concepts (e.g. http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasNACECode, http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#skillType). The skos:broader and skos:narrower concepts are the prime concepts organizing hierarchy among ESCO pillar concepts. The hierarchical structure is modelled according three classes - esco:GroupConcept (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#GroupConcept) - the top level concepts, only used for strucutring. These concepts typically are not relevant for annotating CV or job postings. - esco:LeafGroupConcept (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#LeafGroupConcept) - the lowest top level concept, a special esco:GroupConcept. - esco:MemberConccept (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#MemberConcept) - the concepts used for coding or annotating CV and Job Postings. The ESCO concepts are also divided according their analytical structure. There are two sub-classes: - simple concepts (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SimpleConcept) and - compound concepts (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#FacetedConcept). A concept specialized by faceted concepts holds the labels of each of the faceted concepts in the property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#plusUF. These labels are not synonyms or alternate labels. Among hierarchical related ESCO pillar concepts the following inheritance rules apply - the ESCO relationships from any broader transitive concept are inherited with the following restrictions in case a relationship with the same skill is typed as well essential as optional, only the essential skill relationship is inherited in case a relationship with the same qualification is typed as well required as legally required, only the legally required qualification relationship is inherited - the occasional tagging of the faceted concept (with NUTS, NACE, FoET, ISCO, SkillType, SkillReuseLevel ... codes) must be equal or more specific (specialized) than the code of any of its broader transitive ESCO concepts. The ESCO concepts are specializations of skos:Concepts and use skos:note specializations (see http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#note). - the skos:definition gives the full description of the ESCO concept. - the skos:scopeNote is the practical instruction for when to apply the ESCO concept. - the skos:historyNote gives a system log of significant versioned changes to the ESCO concept. - the skos:changeNote gives the human provided documentation for ESCO concept version modifications. Characteristics: - At the time of publication, the ESCO concepts are available in Icelandic and the official languages of the European Union, except Irish. Per release, actual languages covered are provided by esco:supportedLanguage. Some concepts are originally developped in a reference language. This particular language is indicated by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#referenceLanguage, - Any ESCO concept may refer relevant hyperlinked sources of reference or of information. See http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relevantURL. Each ESCO pillar concept may hold provenance and audit metadata: - rightsHolder: the owner (http://purl.org/dc/terms/rightsHolder) - optional - required - publishing status (http://purl.org/iso25964/skos-thes#status) - required - creator : the author (http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator) - optional - contributor : modifier (http://purl.org/dc/terms/contributor) - required - modified : last modification date (http://purl.org/dc/terms/modified) - required

Comment
enThe class of ESCO pillar concepts. ESCO pillar concepts are divided in tree semantic classes: esco:Occupation, esco:Skill and esco:Qualification, each organized in a dedicated ConceptScheme. All concepts are specializations of skos:Concept and are structured using the skos semantic relationships. - skos:mappingRelation is used to relate ESCO concepts to similar concepts in other concept schemes (e.g. ISCO-08 or ROME). The mapping to ISCO has particular business relevance and uses a special mapping sub-property (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Occupation and http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#memberOfISCOGroup). - sub-properties of skos:related are used to express special relations among ESCO pillar concepts. (e.g. http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isEssentialSkillFor) - sub-properties of the DCMI terms:subject capture codified characteristics of ESCO concepts (e.g. http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasNACECode, http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#skillType). The skos:broader and skos:narrower concepts are the prime concepts organizing hierarchy among ESCO pillar concepts. The hierarchical structure is modelled according three classes - esco:GroupConcept (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#GroupConcept) - the top level concepts, only used for strucutring. These concepts typically are not relevant for annotating CV or job postings. - esco:LeafGroupConcept (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#LeafGroupConcept) - the lowest top level concept, a special esco:GroupConcept. - esco:MemberConccept (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#MemberConcept) - the concepts used for coding or annotating CV and Job Postings. The ESCO concepts are also divided according their analytical structure. There are two sub-classes: - simple concepts (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SimpleConcept) and - compound concepts (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#FacetedConcept). A concept specialized by faceted concepts holds the labels of each of the faceted concepts in the property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#plusUF. These labels are not synonyms or alternate labels. Among hierarchical related ESCO pillar concepts the following inheritance rules apply - the ESCO relationships from any broader transitive concept are inherited with the following restrictions in case a relationship with the same skill is typed as well essential as optional, only the essential skill relationship is inherited in case a relationship with the same qualification is typed as well required as legally required, only the legally required qualification relationship is inherited - the occasional tagging of the faceted concept (with NUTS, NACE, FoET, ISCO, SkillType, SkillReuseLevel ... codes) must be equal or more specific (specialized) than the code of any of its broader transitive ESCO concepts. The ESCO concepts are specializations of skos:Concepts and use skos:note specializations (see http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#note). - the skos:definition gives the full description of the ESCO concept. - the skos:scopeNote is the practical instruction for when to apply the ESCO concept. - the skos:historyNote gives a system log of significant versioned changes to the ESCO concept. - the skos:changeNote gives the human provided documentation for ESCO concept version modifications. Characteristics: - At the time of publication, the ESCO concepts are available in Icelandic and the official languages of the European Union, except Irish. Per release, actual languages covered are provided by esco:supportedLanguage. Some concepts are originally developped in a reference language. This particular language is indicated by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#referenceLanguage, - Any ESCO concept may refer relevant hyperlinked sources of reference or of information. See http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relevantURL. Each ESCO pillar concept may hold provenance and audit metadata: - rightsHolder: the owner (http://purl.org/dc/terms/rightsHolder) - optional - required - publishing status (http://purl.org/iso25964/skos-thes#status) - required - creator : the author (http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator) - optional - contributor : modifier (http://purl.org/dc/terms/contributor) - required - modified : last modification date (http://purl.org/dc/terms/modified) - required
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
DisjointUnionOf

A15

First
Faceted ESCO concept
Rest

A16

First
Simple ESCO concept
Rest
nil

A17

First
Occupation
Rest

A47

First
Qualification
Rest

A30

First
Skill
Rest
nil
DisjointWith
FoET code
Language
Level (European Qualification Framework)
Location
NACE code
Work context
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enESCO Concept
SeeAlso
compound term
Contributor
Creator
Date Modified
Faceted ESCO concept
Group concept
Leaf-group concept
Member concept
Rights Holder
Simple ESCO concept
subject
SubClassOf
Concept
Deprecated
true
Label
enESCO Occupations Concept Scheme
Deprecated
true
Label
enESCO Qualifications Concept Scheme
Deprecated
true
Label
enESCO Relationship Types Concept Scheme
Deprecated
true
Label
enESCO Skills Concept Scheme
10 June 2016

ESCO Structure

A structure defines a tagging relationship between one or more conceptschemes and an ESCO pillar. The structure identifies the predicate used for the relationship between an esco:MemberConcept and a skos:Concept that is part of the linked conceptscheme(s).

Comment
enA structure defines a tagging relationship between one or more conceptschemes and an ESCO pillar. The structure identifies the predicate used for the relationship between an esco:MemberConcept and a skos:Concept that is part of the linked conceptscheme(s).
Date Created
10 June 2016
Date Modified
10 June 2016
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enESCO Structure
8 June 2016

ESCO concept Label

The class of labels used on esco Concepts. Characteristics - An ESCO label may be motivated by relevant original sources. These sources are referenced uising http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relevantURL - An ESCO label typically gets label roles detailing the gender specific characteristics of the label (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasLabelRole) Provenance information that may be added: - rightsHolder: the owner (http://purl.org/dc/terms/rightsHolder) - optional - optional - workflow status (http://data.europa.eu/esco/flow#status) - required - creator : the author (http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator) - optional - contributor : modifier (http://purl.org/dc/terms/contributor) - required - modified : last modification date (http://purl.org/dc/terms/modified) - required

Comment
enThe class of labels used on esco Concepts. Characteristics - An ESCO label may be motivated by relevant original sources. These sources are referenced uising http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relevantURL - An ESCO label typically gets label roles detailing the gender specific characteristics of the label (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasLabelRole) Provenance information that may be added: - rightsHolder: the owner (http://purl.org/dc/terms/rightsHolder) - optional - optional - workflow status (http://data.europa.eu/esco/flow#status) - required - creator : the author (http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator) - optional - contributor : modifier (http://purl.org/dc/terms/contributor) - required - modified : last modification date (http://purl.org/dc/terms/modified) - required
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enESCO concept Label
SeeAlso
Contributor
Creator
Date Modified
has label role
itm:status
Rights Holder
SubClassOf
Label
3 February 2014

ESCO concept used for sector breakdown.

A sector breakdown concept can be used in the Occupation and in the Skill/Competences pillar to organize navigation. As such, it may be related (or characterize) a group of occupations as well as a group of skills. It is not an industry sector, but it may be tagged with NACE codes. This notion is specifically used for organizing the ESCO thesaurus creation (cfr. ESCO v1 methdology and SREF groups).

Comment
enA sector breakdown concept can be used in the Occupation and in the Skill/Competences pillar to organize navigation. As such, it may be related (or characterize) a group of occupations as well as a group of skills. It is not an industry sector, but it may be tagged with NACE codes. This notion is specifically used for organizing the ESCO thesaurus creation (cfr. ESCO v1 methdology and SREF groups).
Date Issued
3 February 2014
Date Modified
3 February 2014
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enESCO concept used for sector breakdown.
SubClassOf
ESCO Concept
10 February 2017

ESCO concepts Relationship

The class of directed relationships between two ESCO Pillar concepts (e.g. between an esco:Occupation and an esco:Qualification). The relationship: - starts from the ESCO concept identified by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isRelationshipFor. - is detailed using a descriptive text (http://purl.org/dc/terms/description). This description may contain reference to external sources (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relatedLegallyRequiredQualification) - ends in the ESCO concept identified by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#refersConcept. - is typed by the tagging property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasRelationshipType. A relationship may be industry sector or location specific. This can be acieved by tagging the relationship using esco:hasNACECode or esco:location respectively.

Comment
enThe class of directed relationships between two ESCO Pillar concepts (e.g. between an esco:Occupation and an esco:Qualification). The relationship: - starts from the ESCO concept identified by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isRelationshipFor. - is detailed using a descriptive text (http://purl.org/dc/terms/description). This description may contain reference to external sources (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relatedLegallyRequiredQualification) - ends in the ESCO concept identified by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#refersConcept. - is typed by the tagging property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasRelationshipType. A relationship may be industry sector or location specific. This can be acieved by tagging the relationship using esco:hasNACECode or esco:location respectively.
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
10 February 2017
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enESCO concepts Relationship
SeeAlso
from ESCO concept
has ESCO relationship type
legally required qualification
to ESCO concept
SubClassOf
OnClass
ESCO Concept
OnProperty
from ESCO concept
QualifiedCardinality
1
OnClass
ESCO Concept
OnProperty
to ESCO concept
QualifiedCardinality
1
3 December 2013

ESCO expiration note

Change note
enESCO v0 -> ESCO v1. Should be part of http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#definition. An expiration period typically should be given formaly by the "xsd:duration" typed property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#expirationPeriod ESCO v0 has expiration notes on 3 qualifications (also having a definition). These expiration notes need to be appended to the respective definition note.by: - add two line breaks - add the expiration note. The formal property esco:expirationPeriod needs to be set manually to express a duration.
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Definition
enA note documenting an expiry period or date
Deprecated
true
History note
enDeprecated with Model version 1.
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enESCO expiration note
SeeAlso
qualification expiration period
SubPropertyOf
note
16 April 2014

ESCO relationship type

The class of the types of ESCO relations. The concepts having this type are managed in the small SKOS taxonomy (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#RelationshipType).

Comment
enThe class of the types of ESCO relations. The concepts having this type are managed in the small SKOS taxonomy (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#RelationshipType).
Date Issued
16 April 2014
Date Modified
16 April 2014
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enESCO relationship type
SubClassOf
Concept
3 December 2013

editorial note

a note documenting the learning outcomes.

Change note
enThe deprecated note must be transferred. - either be part of the definition (http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#definition) of the subject - or be part of the ESCO relationship (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Relationship) providing the description of the subject. ESCOv0 -> ESCOv ESCO v0 has two (subject) Qualification concepts with a learningOutcome Note (and no definition note). On conversion to ESCOv1 model, these should be replaced by a http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#definition
Comment
ena note documenting the learning outcomes.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Deprecated
true
History note
enDeprecated with Model version 1.
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
eneditorial note
SubPropertyOf
note

entry requirement

Entry requirements are structured into categories such as work experience, pre-assessment or a specific qualification. - The category of an entry requirement is given by dcterms:type property using a skos:Concept from the controlled vocabulary <http://data.europa.eu/esco/concept-scheme/entryrequirement-category>. - The requirement level expresses the necessity. It is given by the esco:requirementLevel property using a skos:Concept from the controlled voabulary <http://data.europa.eu/esco/concept-scheme/entryrequirement-level>. The generic class for entry requirements of a qualification. For example a requirement to enter the programme that leads to a qualification, or to access the examination or certification process, such as a prior (professional) experience or a specific qualification.

Comment
enEntry requirements are structured into categories such as work experience, pre-assessment or a specific qualification. - The category of an entry requirement is given by dcterms:type property using a skos:Concept from the controlled vocabulary <http://data.europa.eu/esco/concept-scheme/entryrequirement-category>. - The requirement level expresses the necessity. It is given by the esco:requirementLevel property using a skos:Concept from the controlled voabulary <http://data.europa.eu/esco/concept-scheme/entryrequirement-level>.
enThe generic class for entry requirements of a qualification. For example a requirement to enter the programme that leads to a qualification, or to access the examination or certification process, such as a prior (professional) experience or a specific qualification.
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enentry requirement
SeeAlso
entryrequirement-category
entryrequirement-level

Esco extension

This class denotes concepts of non-EU relevance separate from the usual scope of ESCO.

Comment
enThis class denotes concepts of non-EU relevance separate from the usual scope of ESCO.
Date Issued
2 September 2016
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enEsco extension
SubClassOf
Concept

expiry period

The validity period of a qualification. The period for which a qualification is valid, after it is issued to an individual.

Comment
enThe validity period of a qualification. The period for which a qualification is valid, after it is issued to an individual.
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enexpiry period
Range
duration
8 June 2016

Facet concept group

A Facet concept group (i.e. an instance of the class esco:FacetConceptGroup) is a sub-set of concepts from a facet. A facet is a supporting taxonomy for ESCO. Examples are: - Languages - Species - Tools An (instance of the) esco:FacetConceptGroup is a sub-set of concepts from a facet. The typical use of an esco:FacetConceptGroup is to specialize one or more ESCO pillar concepts. (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#facet). The specialization creates narrower (or transitive narrower) concepts of the specialized ESCO pillar concept. Each specialization is a Faceted (or compound) concept (with type http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#FacetedConcept) having as component concepts: - the ESCO pillar object being specialized and - one member concept from the facet group. An ESCO pillar concept is either an esco:SimpleConcept or an esco:FacetedConcept An ESCO concept can be specialized in different ways using different Facet concept groups The Facet concept group may be structured: - members of an esco:FacetConceptGroup can have hierarchical relationships (skos:broader and skos:narrower) among its member concepts. If this is the case, the hierarchical structure among the specialized concepts constructed with this facet group will mirror the hierarchy of the facet group. See also skos:topMember. - an esco:FacetConceptGroup can be an oredered collection. In this case, the order among the spicialized concepts constructed with this facet group will mirror the order of the facet group. - an esco:FacetConceptGroup can have different sub-collections (i.e. have skos:member that are a skos:Collection and an iso-thes:ThesaurusArray). Collections only serve to organize the constructed faceted concepts such that the faceted concepts that are specializations based on the structured Facet concept group are organized by thesaurus arrays that each mirror an original thesaurus array of the Facet concept group. Example: the language FacetConceptGroup can have as members - the (possibly ordered) collection of spoken languages having as members the language concepts - the (possibly ordered) collection of sign languages having as members the sign language concepts The name of the facet group is given by skos:prefLabel

Comment
enA Facet concept group (i.e. an instance of the class esco:FacetConceptGroup) is a sub-set of concepts from a facet. A facet is a supporting taxonomy for ESCO. Examples are: - Languages - Species - Tools An (instance of the) esco:FacetConceptGroup is a sub-set of concepts from a facet. The typical use of an esco:FacetConceptGroup is to specialize one or more ESCO pillar concepts. (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#facet). The specialization creates narrower (or transitive narrower) concepts of the specialized ESCO pillar concept. Each specialization is a Faceted (or compound) concept (with type http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#FacetedConcept) having as component concepts: - the ESCO pillar object being specialized and - one member concept from the facet group. An ESCO pillar concept is either an esco:SimpleConcept or an esco:FacetedConcept An ESCO concept can be specialized in different ways using different Facet concept groups The Facet concept group may be structured: - members of an esco:FacetConceptGroup can have hierarchical relationships (skos:broader and skos:narrower) among its member concepts. If this is the case, the hierarchical structure among the specialized concepts constructed with this facet group will mirror the hierarchy of the facet group. See also skos:topMember. - an esco:FacetConceptGroup can be an oredered collection. In this case, the order among the spicialized concepts constructed with this facet group will mirror the order of the facet group. - an esco:FacetConceptGroup can have different sub-collections (i.e. have skos:member that are a skos:Collection and an iso-thes:ThesaurusArray). Collections only serve to organize the constructed faceted concepts such that the faceted concepts that are specializations based on the structured Facet concept group are organized by thesaurus arrays that each mirror an original thesaurus array of the Facet concept group. Example: the language FacetConceptGroup can have as members - the (possibly ordered) collection of spoken languages having as members the language concepts - the (possibly ordered) collection of sign languages having as members the sign language concepts The name of the facet group is given by skos:prefLabel
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enFacet concept group
SeeAlso
Faceted ESCO concept
preferred label
Simple ESCO concept
specializing facet
SubClassOf
Collection
Deprecated
true
8 June 2016

Faceted ESCO concept

The class of compound ESCO pillar concepts. A compound concept is a concept that is broken down in a set of mare basic component concepts (e.g. a pianist is a 'musician' performing on a 'piano') An ESCO concept is either a faceted concept or a simple concept (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SimpleConcept). An ESCO faceted (or compound) concept is the specialization of an ESCO concept that identifies one or more specialization facets (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#facet). A specializing facet is a group of concepts with a common characteristic (e.g. the group of music instruments). The specialization makes a compound of the ESCO concept and of one concept of each of its related specializing facets. - During the editorial phase, one or more faceted concepts may be created ad hoc by the ESCO taxonomists. - During the ESCO publishing phase all possible faceted concepts are generated by the publication process. The process adds the possible compound conepts that were not created by the (human) taxonomist. - Each faceted concept is the specialization (i.e. the skos:narrowerTransitive) of an ESCO simple concept (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#constructedFrom) - All facet componets (i.e. the facet values) of the faceted conept are given by the property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasFacet Uniqueness rule: Two instances of esco:FacetedConcept are the same if and only if both instances - refer the same simple ESCO concept using http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#constructedFrom - refer the same set of components (facet values) using http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasFacet The faceted concept inherits certain characteristics from the Simple Concept it is constructed from: - the ESCO pillar type (Occupation, Skill or Qualification) of its simple concept it is constructed from (see esco:constructedFrom). - the memberOfISCOGroup of the occasional Occupation it is constructed from - the skillType and the skillReuseLevel of the occasional Skill it is constructed from Further, inheritance rules apply as on ESCO concepts (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Concept).

Comment
enThe class of compound ESCO pillar concepts. A compound concept is a concept that is broken down in a set of mare basic component concepts (e.g. a pianist is a 'musician' performing on a 'piano') An ESCO concept is either a faceted concept or a simple concept (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SimpleConcept). An ESCO faceted (or compound) concept is the specialization of an ESCO concept that identifies one or more specialization facets (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#facet). A specializing facet is a group of concepts with a common characteristic (e.g. the group of music instruments). The specialization makes a compound of the ESCO concept and of one concept of each of its related specializing facets. - During the editorial phase, one or more faceted concepts may be created ad hoc by the ESCO taxonomists. - During the ESCO publishing phase all possible faceted concepts are generated by the publication process. The process adds the possible compound conepts that were not created by the (human) taxonomist. - Each faceted concept is the specialization (i.e. the skos:narrowerTransitive) of an ESCO simple concept (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#constructedFrom) - All facet componets (i.e. the facet values) of the faceted conept are given by the property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasFacet Uniqueness rule: Two instances of esco:FacetedConcept are the same if and only if both instances - refer the same simple ESCO concept using http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#constructedFrom - refer the same set of components (facet values) using http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasFacet The faceted concept inherits certain characteristics from the Simple Concept it is constructed from: - the ESCO pillar type (Occupation, Skill or Qualification) of its simple concept it is constructed from (see esco:constructedFrom). - the memberOfISCOGroup of the occasional Occupation it is constructed from - the skillType and the skillReuseLevel of the occasional Skill it is constructed from Further, inheritance rules apply as on ESCO concepts (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Concept).
Date Issued
3 February 2014
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
DisjointWith
Simple ESCO concept
Editorial note
en The preferred label of a Faceted concept need not be persisted in the editorial system. It may be automatically constructed on publishing as follows: {FacetedConcept prefLabel} := {SimpleConcept prefLabel} + ': ' + {facet prefLabel} ( ' / ' + {facet prefLabel} ) * where facet prefLabels are ordered alhabetically. The (gender related) label roles are inherited from the prefered label of the SimplConcept. Occasionally the automated pref label will be overruled by a compound label.
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enFaceted ESCO concept
SubClassOf
MinQualifiedCardinality
1
OnClass
Concept
OnProperty
has facet
OnClass
Simple ESCO concept
OnProperty
constructed from ESCO concept
QualifiedCardinality
1
ESCO Concept
8 June 2016

FoET code

The class of ISCED 2013/FoET classificaton code (International Standard Classification of Education: Fields of Education and Training 2013) The Fields of Education and Training have been submitted to the UNESCO Conference - session 37 - Paris. The version submitted for resolution is available from: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002218/221863e.pdf Other original source references: - http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Documents/isced-37c-fos-review-222729e.pdf - http://www.uis.unesco.org/EDUCATION/Pages/international-standard-classification-of-education.aspx

Comment
enThe class of ISCED 2013/FoET classificaton code (International Standard Classification of Education: Fields of Education and Training 2013) The Fields of Education and Training have been submitted to the UNESCO Conference - session 37 - Paris. The version submitted for resolution is available from: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002218/221863e.pdf Other original source references: - http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Documents/isced-37c-fos-review-222729e.pdf - http://www.uis.unesco.org/EDUCATION/Pages/international-standard-classification-of-education.aspx
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enFoET code
SeeAlso
221863e.pdf
international-standard-classification-of-education.aspx
SubClassOf
Concept

FoET2013

IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enFoET2013
Term_status
released
10 February 2017

from ESCO concept

The ESCO concept the (subject) relationship starts from (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Relationship).

Comment
enThe ESCO concept the (subject) relationship starts from (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Relationship).
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
10 February 2017
Deprecated
true
Domain
ESCO concepts Relationship
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enfrom ESCO concept
Range
ESCO Concept
8 June 2016

Group concept

Concepts of this type are aggregations. The property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasGroupMember gives the members concepts of the group. The member concepts have type http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#MemberConcept. These member concepts are skos:narrowerTransitive spcializations of the group concept. Among GroupConcept, the skos:broader/skos:narrower is like a super-group/sub-group relation meaning that all members of the (narrower) sub-group also are members of the (broader) super-group. Typically these group concepts are NOT used in CV or job postings, but serve organization, reporting and statiscal purposes. The member concepts of group concepts are used for coding or annotating CV or job postings. A Group concept typically will be - in the upper levels of an ESCO pillar (or concept schema) - in an external concept schema (e.g. ISCO)

Comment
enConcepts of this type are aggregations. The property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasGroupMember gives the members concepts of the group. The member concepts have type http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#MemberConcept. These member concepts are skos:narrowerTransitive spcializations of the group concept. Among GroupConcept, the skos:broader/skos:narrower is like a super-group/sub-group relation meaning that all members of the (narrower) sub-group also are members of the (broader) super-group. Typically these group concepts are NOT used in CV or job postings, but serve organization, reporting and statiscal purposes. The member concepts of group concepts are used for coding or annotating CV or job postings. A Group concept typically will be - in the upper levels of an ESCO pillar (or concept schema) - in an external concept schema (e.g. ISCO)
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
DisjointWith
Member concept
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enGroup concept
SubClassOf
AllValuesFrom
Group concept
OnProperty
has broader
Concept
8 June 2016

Group of overlapping skills

The class of collections of overlapping esco:Skill concepts. All skills within one collection of overlapping skills have overlapping semantics with each other. The collection has a name using http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#prefLabel . As clarifications about the overlapping emerge, a decision from ESCO editorial team may instruct to merge some or all of the member concepts of this collection or to relate its members in another way.

Comment
enThe class of collections of overlapping esco:Skill concepts. All skills within one collection of overlapping skills have overlapping semantics with each other. The collection has a name using http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#prefLabel . As clarifications about the overlapping emerge, a decision from ESCO editorial team may instruct to merge some or all of the member concepts of this collection or to relate its members in another way.
Date Issued
10 August 2014
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enGroup of overlapping skills
SeeAlso
preferred label
SubClassOf
Collection
27 June 2013

has EQF Level

The level (as specified by the European Qualification Framework) applicable to the subject qualification.

Comment
enThe level (as specified by the European Qualification Framework) applicable to the subject qualification.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
27 June 2013
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas EQF Level
Range
Level (European Qualification Framework)
SubPropertyOf
subject
14 November 2014

has ESCO relationship

The detailed (typed, annotated and documented) ESCO relationship (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Relationship) for the subject ESCO concept. The relationship identifies a related ESCO concept. The inverse relations of esco:refersConcept and of esco:isRelationshipFor entail the property esco:hasRelationship. The relationship properties provide formal semantics to the ESCO concept relationship.

Comment
enThe detailed (typed, annotated and documented) ESCO relationship (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Relationship) for the subject ESCO concept. The relationship identifies a related ESCO concept. The inverse relations of esco:refersConcept and of esco:isRelationshipFor entail the property esco:hasRelationship. The relationship properties provide formal semantics to the ESCO concept relationship.
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
14 November 2014
Deprecated
true
Domain
ESCO Concept
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas ESCO relationship
Range
ESCO concepts Relationship
SeeAlso
ESCO concepts Relationship
from ESCO concept
to ESCO concept
8 June 2016

has ESCO relationship list

The ordered set of relationships starting at the subject ESCO pillar concept. For any resource, every item in the list given as the value of the esco:hasRelationshipList property is also a value of the esco:hasRelationship property.

Comment
enThe ordered set of relationships starting at the subject ESCO pillar concept. For any resource, every item in the list given as the value of the esco:hasRelationshipList property is also a value of the esco:hasRelationship property.
Date Issued
23 October 2014
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain
ESCO Concept
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas ESCO relationship list
Range
List
SeeAlso
ESCO concepts Relationship
has ESCO relationship
16 April 2014

has ESCO relationship type

A tagging concept detailing the type of the (subject) ESCO relationship

Comment
enA tagging concept detailing the type of the (subject) ESCO relationship
Date Issued
16 April 2014
Date Modified
16 April 2014
Deprecated
true
Domain
ESCO concepts Relationship
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas ESCO relationship type
Range
ESCO relationship type
SubPropertyOf
subject
3 December 2013

has FoET Code

A tagging concept identifying the Field of Education Code as specified by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Comment
enA tagging concept identifying the Field of Education Code as specified by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas FoET Code
Range
FoET code
SubPropertyOf
subject
3 December 2013

has NACE code

A tagging concept using the NACE codes to specify the industry sector of the tagged subject.

Comment
enA tagging concept using the NACE codes to specify the industry sector of the tagged subject.
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas NACE code
Range
NACE code
SubPropertyOf
subject
Comment
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas accreditation
Range
Accreditation
SeeAlso
Accreditation

has association

The detailed (typed, annotated and documented) association (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#AssociationObject) from a resource (e.g. a qualification) to a node in an other established framework. The association identifies a related semantic asset from another established framework. The inverse relation of esco:isAssociationFor entails the property esco:hasAssociation.Used to express a learning outcome of a qualification as a relation from a qualification to an ESCO skill, competence or knowdledge.Used to link a qualification to a qualification framework level.Used to related a qualification to an occupation from a national, regional or international occupation classification system.

Comment
enThe detailed (typed, annotated and documented) association (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#AssociationObject) from a resource (e.g. a qualification) to a node in an other established framework. The association identifies a related semantic asset from another established framework. The inverse relation of esco:isAssociationFor entails the property esco:hasAssociation.
enUsed to express a learning outcome of a qualification as a relation from a qualification to an ESCO skill, competence or knowdledge.
enUsed to link a qualification to a qualification framework level.
enUsed to related a qualification to an occupation from a national, regional or international occupation classification system.
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas association
Range
Association object
SeeAlso
association from
Association object

has awarding activity

an awarding activity of a qualification

Comment
enan awarding activity of a qualification
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas awarding activity
Range
Awarding activity
SeeAlso
Awarding activity
27 June 2013

has awarding body

The institutiution, organisation or company that issues the (subject) qualification (certification).

Comment
enThe institutiution, organisation or company that issues the (subject) qualification (certification).
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
27 June 2013
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas awarding body
Range
Awarding body
SubPropertyOf
subject
21 June 2016

has code list

Date Created
21 June 2016
Date Modified
21 June 2016
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas code list
Range
Concept Scheme
SeeAlso
ESCO Structure
has coded property
21 June 2016

has coded property

Date Created
21 June 2016
Date Modified
21 June 2016
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas coded property
Range
Property
SeeAlso
ESCO Structure
has code list

has entry requirement

an entry requirement of a qualification

Comment
enan entry requirement of a qualification
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas entry requirement
Range
entry requirement
SeeAlso
entry requirement
3 December 2013

has essential skill

The ESCO skill or competence that is essential for the subject occupation or skill.

Comment
enThe ESCO skill or competence that is essential for the subject occupation or skill.
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Domain
Member concept
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas essential skill
Range
Skill
SubPropertyOf
has related
8 June 2016

has facet

A faceted ESCO concept (e.g.) is a compound concept constructed from an ESCO pillar concept and one or more facets. The typical example is the (foreign) language skills. - The ESCO concept is the skill: foreign language expertise. The facets are: - the specific language of the expertise (en, fr, el, bg, nl ... ) - the skill levels defined by CEFR (writing, understanding interactively, ...).

Comment
enA faceted ESCO concept (e.g.) is a compound concept constructed from an ESCO pillar concept and one or more facets. The typical example is the (foreign) language skills. - The ESCO concept is the skill: foreign language expertise. The facets are: - the specific language of the expertise (en, fr, el, bg, nl ... ) - the skill levels defined by CEFR (writing, understanding interactively, ...).
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain
Faceted ESCO concept
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas facet
Range
Concept
10 June 2016

has group member

Identifies the member Concept of the (subject) Group concept.

Comment
enIdentifies the member Concept of the (subject) Group concept.
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
10 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain
Group concept
InverseOf
containing group
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas group member
Range
Member concept
SubPropertyOf
has narrower transitive
3 December 2013

has label role

A tagging concept providing the gender specific typing of an ESCO label. Each ESCO label can have - at most 1 label that is standard male and zero or more labels that are male - at most 1 label that is standard female and zero or more labels that are female - any label that is not male or female is considered neutral - a male respectively female preferred label is the standard male respectively standard female label

Comment
enA tagging concept providing the gender specific typing of an ESCO label. Each ESCO label can have - at most 1 label that is standard male and zero or more labels that are male - at most 1 label that is standard female and zero or more labels that are female - any label that is not male or female is considered neutral - a male respectively female preferred label is the standard male respectively standard female label
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Domain
Label
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas label role
Range
Label role
SubPropertyOf
subject
9 November 2014

has learning outcome

The ESCO skill/competence related to (or asserted by) the subject ESCO qualification. I.e. when asserted on a subject qualification, the related competence is a learning outcome of that qualification.

Comment
enThe ESCO skill/competence related to (or asserted by) the subject ESCO qualification. I.e. when asserted on a subject qualification, the related competence is a learning outcome of that qualification.
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
9 November 2014
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas learning outcome
Range
Skill
SubPropertyOf
has related
3 December 2013

has optional skill

The ESCO skill or competence that is relevant (but optional) for the subject occuption.

Comment
enThe ESCO skill or competence that is relevant (but optional) for the subject occuption.
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Domain
Member concept
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas optional skill
Range
Skill
SubPropertyOf
has related
1 April 2016

has poly-hierarchy

true: Indicates wether a ESCO thesaurus/taxonomy supports poly-hierarchy. Not present or false indicate mono-hierarchy.

Comment
entrue: Indicates wether a ESCO thesaurus/taxonomy supports poly-hierarchy. Not present or false indicate mono-hierarchy.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
1 April 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain
Concept scheme (ESCO pillar)
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas poly-hierarchy
Range
boolean
Comment
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas recognition
Range
Recognition
SeeAlso
Recognition
8 June 2016

has top concept list

The ordered set of top concepts of the subject conceptscheme. For any resource, every item in the list given as the value of the esco:hasTopConceptList property is also a value of the skos:hasTopConcept property.

Comment
enThe ordered set of top concepts of the subject conceptscheme. For any resource, every item in the list given as the value of the esco:hasTopConceptList property is also a value of the skos:hasTopConcept property.
Date Issued
14 November 2014
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain
Concept Scheme
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas top concept list
Range
List
SeeAlso
has top concept
10 June 2016

has top member

Typically specified in case the subject collection is a concept group having a hierarchical representation (hierarchy based on broader/narrower). The referenced concepts are the hierarchical entry points of the concept group hierarchy. The top may be concepts as well as collections.

Comment
enTypically specified in case the subject collection is a concept group having a hierarchical representation (hierarchy based on broader/narrower). The referenced concepts are the hierarchical entry points of the concept group hierarchy. The top may be concepts as well as collections.
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
10 June 2016
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enhas top member
SubPropertyOf
has member

ISC008

IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enISC008
10 June 2016

ISCED FoET Code

A tagging concept identifying the ISCED 2013 FoET classification code (Field of Education Code). It is used to indicate the thematic area of a qualification.

Comment
enA tagging concept identifying the ISCED 2013 FoET classification code (Field of Education Code). It is used to indicate the thematic area of a qualification.
Date Created
10 June 2016
Date Modified
10 June 2016
IsDefinedBy
model
Label
enISCED FoET Code
Range
Concept
SubPropertyOf
subject

ISCO88

Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
3 December 2013

ISCO88 Code

The parent ISCO 88 codes of a specific occupation. The format is ''<code>[,<code>]*''^^xsd:string e.g ''3139,3131''^^xsd:string means the occupation has 2 parent occupation groups in isco88. One with iscocode 3139 and one with iscocode 3131

Change note
enESCO v0 -> ESCO v1 must create http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#memberOfISCOGroup (esco:memberOfISCOGroup a sub-property of skos:broadMatch) based on the detailed list of ISCO codes. Read also change note on: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#ISCO88 Esco v0 has 4761 statements.
Comment
enThe parent ISCO 88 codes of a specific occupation. The format is ''<code>[,<code>]*''^^xsd:string e.g ''3139,3131''^^xsd:string means the occupation has 2 parent occupation groups in isco88. One with iscocode 3139 and one with iscocode 3131
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Deprecated
true
History note
enDeprecated with Model version 1.
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enISCO88 Code
SeeAlso
belongs to ISCO Group with code
ISCO88
SubPropertyOf
subject
14 November 2014

is a learning outcome of

The inverse of esco:relatedCompetence.

Comment
enThe inverse of esco:relatedCompetence.
Date Issued
14 November 2014
Date Modified
14 November 2014
Deprecated
true
Domain
Skill
InverseOf
has learning outcome
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enis a learning outcome of
Range
Qualification
SubPropertyOf
has related
10 August 2014

is essential skill for

The inverse of esco:relatedEssentialSkill.

Comment
enThe inverse of esco:relatedEssentialSkill.
Date Issued
10 August 2014
Date Modified
10 August 2014
Domain
Skill
InverseOf
has essential skill
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enis essential skill for
Range

A25

UnionOf

A23

First
Occupation
Rest

A24

First
Skill
Rest
nil
SubPropertyOf
has related
3 December 2013

is indirectly included

True: Indicates the subject concept (like a qualification) is not directly managed by ESCO. instead the concept is loaded into ESCO when it is provided by an external (typical national) body or agent. Could also be applied (if unambiguous) to skills and occupations. Assertion (to 'true') is required in case external contribution must be affirmed.

Comment
enTrue: Indicates the subject concept (like a qualification) is not directly managed by ESCO. instead the concept is loaded into ESCO when it is provided by an external (typical national) body or agent. Could also be applied (if unambiguous) to skills and occupations. Assertion (to 'true') is required in case external contribution must be affirmed.
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Deprecated
true
Domain
ESCO Concept
Label
enis indirectly included
Range
boolean
14 November 2014

is legally required qualification for

The inverse of esco:relatedLegallyRequiredQualification

Comment
enThe inverse of esco:relatedLegallyRequiredQualification
Date Issued
14 November 2014
Date Modified
14 November 2014
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
InverseOf
legally required qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enis legally required qualification for
Range

A42

UnionOf

A43

First
Occupation
Rest

A20

First
Skill
Rest
nil
SubPropertyOf
has related
10 August 2014

is optional skill for

The inverse of esco:relatedOptionalSkill.

Comment
enThe inverse of esco:relatedOptionalSkill.
Date Issued
10 August 2014
Date Modified
10 August 2014
Domain
Skill
InverseOf
has optional skill
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enis optional skill for
Range

A8

UnionOf

A9

First
Occupation
Rest

A63

First
Skill
Rest
nil
SubPropertyOf
has related

is partial qualification

Default value is 'false'^^xsd:boolean Indicates whether a qualification is a full qualification or part of another qualification. In the latter, the qualification is only obtained as a formal outcome of a “broader” qualification of which it is part.

Comment
enDefault value is 'false'^^xsd:boolean
enIndicates whether a qualification is a full qualification or part of another qualification. In the latter, the qualification is only obtained as a formal outcome of a “broader” qualification of which it is part.
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enis partial qualification
Range
boolean
14 November 2014

is qualification for

The inverse of esco:relatedQualification.

Comment
enThe inverse of esco:relatedQualification.
Date Issued
14 November 2014
Date Modified
14 November 2014
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
InverseOf
qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enis qualification for
Range

A33

UnionOf

A18

First
Occupation
Rest

A19

First
Skill
Rest
nil
SubPropertyOf
has related
3 December 2013

is transversal

Typical to indicate that a concept (like a skill) is not job or sector specific. It is cross sector. May also be applied (if unambiguous) to qualifications and occupations. Assertion (to 'true') is required in case transversality must be affirmed. Skill re-usability levels can be tagged in case the level implies transversal scope of the skills having the re-usability level.

Comment
enTypical to indicate that a concept (like a skill) is not job or sector specific. It is cross sector. May also be applied (if unambiguous) to qualifications and occupations. Assertion (to 'true') is required in case transversality must be affirmed. Skill re-usability levels can be tagged in case the level implies transversal scope of the skills having the re-usability level.
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Deprecated
true
Domain

A40

UnionOf

A6

First
ESCO Concept
Rest

A7

First
Skill reuse level
Rest
nil
Label
enis transversal
Range
boolean
3 December 2013

isco label

The ISCO label of an occupation group. Provided in case the preferred label has been replaced by an esco specific one. Typically this can happen in order not to have duplicate preferred labels in the ESCO thesaurus.

Change note
enGeneralized and replaced by: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#originalLabel ESCO v0 -> ESCO v1 (read also change note on: http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#ISCO88) The ESCOv1 (= v0.0) concepts (that are a copy of ISCO88 concepts) should keep existing label in ESCOv0 and iscoLabel is removed. The ISCO88 concepts should keep the preferred label (per language) the property esco:iscoLabel is replaced by the property esco:originalLabel (http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#originalLabel) Conversion needs to convert the existing ISCO labels in two ways: - as esco:iscoLabel which MAY NOT be modified (READ-ONLY) - as xl:label where ESCO can overrule the terminology from ISCO to conform to SKOS label requirements.
Comment
enThe ISCO label of an occupation group. Provided in case the preferred label has been replaced by an esco specific one. Typically this can happen in order not to have duplicate preferred labels in the ESCO thesaurus.
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Deprecated
true
History note
enDeprecated with Model version 1.
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enisco label
Rule
There may be at most 1 iscoLabel per language for any OcupationGroup.
SeeAlso
ISCO88
original label
SubPropertyOf
label
Deprecated
true
Label
enLabel Role
3 December 2013

Label role

Allows to capture one or more particular characteristics of a name. Example usage: Gender related terms. - ESCO concepts may get a gender neutral term as preferred label. The gender specific terms are provided as alternate labels. - Relevant use cases: - concept look-up based on gender specific term - Job posting generation with gender neutral terms - CV generation with gender specific terms

Comment
enAllows to capture one or more particular characteristics of a name. Example usage: Gender related terms. - ESCO concepts may get a gender neutral term as preferred label. The gender specific terms are provided as alternate labels. - Relevant use cases: - concept look-up based on gender specific term - Job posting generation with gender neutral terms - CV generation with gender specific terms
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enLabel role
SubClassOf
Concept
10 June 2016

Language

The class of language concepts. Each language is - labeled using skos:prefLabel in all of the other languages and - identified using the ESCO esco:language property (value = ISO 2-char language code). The class provides the set of languages that can be in use in the thesaurus. Two ESCO concept schemes provide language concepts: - http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#ISO639 - all languages of ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 - http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#ISO639-3 - all sign languages listed in ISO 639-3 The esco:ConceptScheme identifies the languages actually used via its property esco:supportedLanguage.

Comment
enThe class of language concepts. Each language is - labeled using skos:prefLabel in all of the other languages and - identified using the ESCO esco:language property (value = ISO 2-char language code). The class provides the set of languages that can be in use in the thesaurus. Two ESCO concept schemes provide language concepts: - http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#ISO639 - all languages of ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 - http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#ISO639-3 - all sign languages listed in ISO 639-3 The esco:ConceptScheme identifies the languages actually used via its property esco:supportedLanguage.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
10 June 2016
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enLanguage
SubClassOf
Cardinality
1
OnProperty
language
Concept
27 June 2013

language

QMS usage: The range must be a rdfs:Literal typed as xsd:language.The ISO 639-1 code of the language (2-char language code) in which a text is available.The language of the subject resource.

Change note
enESCO v0 -> ESCO v1 literals having XMLLiteral parsetype are now coded as pllain literal with mark-up escaped. Hence the standard RDF language tagging of literals can be used. see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#noteLiteral
Comment
enQMS usage: The range must be a rdfs:Literal typed as xsd:language.
enThe ISO 639-1 code of the language (2-char language code) in which a text is available.
enThe language of the subject resource.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
27 June 2013
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enlanguage
Range
language
8 June 2016

Leaf-group concept

A Group (or aggregation) concept, having no sub-groups anymore. Narrower concepts only can be members (or narrower instances) of the group concept. The specialization http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#narrowerInstance of skos:narrower is used to identify the top level members of the group.

Comment
enA Group (or aggregation) concept, having no sub-groups anymore. Narrower concepts only can be members (or narrower instances) of the group concept. The specialization http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#narrowerInstance of skos:narrower is used to identify the top level members of the group.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enLeaf-group concept
SeeAlso
Member concept
SubClassOf
Group concept
3 December 2013

legally required qualification

The ESCO qualification (certification) that is legally required for the subject occupation or skill. Details for the requirements must be given in the relationship description. Occasionally, such a description must hold a hyperlink to the relevant professions database (e.g. http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/regprof/index.cfm?action=profession&id_profession=12142). In case the legal requirement is region specific, the relationship: - should detail the restriction in the relation description - could be tagged with a location or NUTS code (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#location)

Comment
enThe ESCO qualification (certification) that is legally required for the subject occupation or skill. Details for the requirements must be given in the relationship description. Occasionally, such a description must hold a hyperlink to the relevant professions database (e.g. http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/regprof/index.cfm?action=profession&id_profession=12142). In case the legal requirement is region specific, the relationship: - should detail the restriction in the relation description - could be tagged with a location or NUTS code (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#location)
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Deprecated
true
Domain

A38

UnionOf

A39

First
Occupation
Rest

A14

First
Skill
Rest
nil
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enlegally required qualification
Range
Qualification
SeeAlso
ESCO concepts Relationship
location
SubPropertyOf
has related
10 February 2017

Level (European Qualification Framework)

The EQF levels have been published as recommendation by the EU Publication office under CELEX number 32008H0506(01) See http://publications.europa.eu/resource/celex/32008H0506%2801%29

Change note
enURI of ESCO copy of EQF will need to be updated in order to get LOD properly working from ESCO platform.
Comment
enThe EQF levels have been published as recommendation by the EU Publication office under CELEX number 32008H0506(01) See http://publications.europa.eu/resource/celex/32008H0506%2801%29
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
10 February 2017
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enLevel (European Qualification Framework)
SeeAlso
32008H0506%2801%29
SubClassOf
Concept
10 June 2016

Location

A teritorial area like a federation, a country, a region, a jurisdiction area. Standards useful for locations and regions: - ISO 3166 - NUTS - http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/nuts_nomenclature/introduction (extends ISO 3166 with sub-regions) - geonames - http://www.geonames.org/ (includes ISO 3166) - EU publication Office - http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/authority/country/index.html

Comment
enA teritorial area like a federation, a country, a region, a jurisdiction area. Standards useful for locations and regions: - ISO 3166 - NUTS - http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/nuts_nomenclature/introduction (extends ISO 3166 with sub-regions) - geonames - http://www.geonames.org/ (includes ISO 3166) - EU publication Office - http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/authority/country/index.html
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
10 June 2016
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enLocation
SubClassOf
Concept
27 June 2013

location

The Country or region the subject is associated with. Typically a tagging concept.

Comment
enThe Country or region the subject is associated with. Typically a tagging concept.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
27 June 2013
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enlocation
Range
Location
SubPropertyOf
subject
10 February 2017

Member concept

Concepts of this class are specifically used to be referenced in CV or job postings. Typically these concepts are at the more specialized levels of the hierarchy. Example: A particular occupation, not a group of occupations. These concepts in general have However, some Member concept may be specializations of other ones. In general these specializations will not comply to (1). General group membership within ESCO pillars is provided by esco:memberOfGroup.

Comment
enConcepts of this class are specifically used to be referenced in CV or job postings. Typically these concepts are at the more specialized levels of the hierarchy. Example: A particular occupation, not a group of occupations. These concepts in general have However, some Member concept may be specializations of other ones. In general these specializations will not comply to (1). General group membership within ESCO pillars is provided by esco:memberOfGroup.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
10 February 2017
DisjointUnionOf

A55

First
Occupation
Rest

A54

First
Qualification
Rest

A10

First
Skill
Rest
nil
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enMember concept
SubClassOf
Concept

MemberConcept

8 June 2016

NACE code

Industry sector code NACE rev2 The NACE codes are published in http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-RA-07-015/EN/KS-RA-07-015-EN.PDF The RDF version is available from: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/rdfdata/nace_r2.rdf - Note, this is not SKOS but can be made SKOS compliant. ESCO keeps a SKOS compliant copy of NACE codes. These are organized in the concept scheme http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#NACErev2

Comment
enIndustry sector code NACE rev2 The NACE codes are published in http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-RA-07-015/EN/KS-RA-07-015-EN.PDF The RDF version is available from: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/rdfdata/nace_r2.rdf - Note, this is not SKOS but can be made SKOS compliant. ESCO keeps a SKOS compliant copy of NACE codes. These are organized in the concept scheme http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#NACErev2
Date Issued
5 December 2013
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enNACE code
SeeAlso
KS-RA-07-015-EN.PDF
nace r2.rdf
SubClassOf
Concept

NACEr2 code

IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enNACEr2 code

NACEr2 section

Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enNACEr2 section

NUTS regionCode

Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enNUTS regionCode
10 June 2016

narrower instance

The ESCO concepts (occupation, skill or qualification) that are immediate (one step) narrower concepts of the (subject) leaf group. These narrower concepts are top level (member) concepts of the subject leaf concept group. The (subject) leaf group may have more members, not provided by its esco:narrowerInstance properties. Typically, these other members are specializations (e.g. faceted concepts) of the top level members of the (subject) leaf concept group.

Comment
enThe ESCO concepts (occupation, skill or qualification) that are immediate (one step) narrower concepts of the (subject) leaf group. These narrower concepts are top level (member) concepts of the subject leaf concept group. The (subject) leaf group may have more members, not provided by its esco:narrowerInstance properties. Typically, these other members are specializations (e.g. faceted concepts) of the top level members of the (subject) leaf concept group.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
10 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain
Leaf-group concept
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
ennarrower instance
Range
Member concept
Simple ESCO concept
SubPropertyOf
has group member
narrowerInstantial
Domain
node literal
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enNode Literal
Range
Literal
SeeAlso
node literal

node literal

Free text metadata fields, such as the description, a historical or additional note of a qualification can contain a plain text or a XHTML fragment as literal value. By using a NodeLiteral both the datatype of the literal as the language can be specified.The class used to specify Literals that can have both a datatype and a language tag

Comment
enFree text metadata fields, such as the description, a historical or additional note of a qualification can contain a plain text or a XHTML fragment as literal value. By using a NodeLiteral both the datatype of the literal as the language can be specified.
enThe class used to specify Literals that can have both a datatype and a language tag
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
ennode literal
SubClassOf
MaxCardinality
1
OnProperty
language
Cardinality
1
OnProperty
Node Literal
MinCardinality
0
OnProperty
subject
Concept
27 June 2013

note text

An xml literal taking a plain text or xhtml.body.type content type. The property typically allows to validate the content of a SKOS note (or any of its SKOS sub-properties). Notes are then provided as blank nodes with this property and with the ESCO language property. The motivations for this complex approach are: - Provides structure content (XML literal) according a format that can be validated. - xml:lang and rdf:parseType="Literal" can not be provided on the same property.

Comment
enAn xml literal taking a plain text or xhtml.body.type content type. The property typically allows to validate the content of a SKOS note (or any of its SKOS sub-properties). Notes are then provided as blank nodes with this property and with the ESCO language property. The motivations for this complex approach are: - Provides structure content (XML literal) according a format that can be validated. - xml:lang and rdf:parseType="Literal" can not be provided on the same property.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
27 June 2013
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
ennote text
Range
XMLLiteral
Rule
Embedded hyperlinks need to be parsed and validated on import. Content needs to be XHTML validated on import.
SeeAlso
language
10 February 2017

Occupation

The class of ESCO Occupation concepts. An Occuaption is an ESCO pillar concept (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#MemberConcept). Characteristics of an Occupation: - The relevant industry sector for an occupation is given by the Eurostat NACE codes (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasNACECode) - The different Work context applicable for an occupation (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasWorkContext). An occupation may be related to - esco:Skill (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relatedEssentialSkill and http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relatedOptionalSkill) - esco:Qualification (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#AssociationObject) Occupations having a legal or other regulations in a specific region - must identify these regulations in the occupation definition (and refer the professional DB stating that regulation - e.g. http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/regprof/index.cfm?action=profession&id_profession=12142) - could identify such a region with the location property (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#location).

Comment
enThe class of ESCO Occupation concepts. An Occuaption is an ESCO pillar concept (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#MemberConcept). Characteristics of an Occupation: - The relevant industry sector for an occupation is given by the Eurostat NACE codes (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasNACECode) - The different Work context applicable for an occupation (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasWorkContext). An occupation may be related to - esco:Skill (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relatedEssentialSkill and http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relatedOptionalSkill) - esco:Qualification (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#AssociationObject) Occupations having a legal or other regulations in a specific region - must identify these regulations in the occupation definition (and refer the professional DB stating that regulation - e.g. http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/qualifications/regprof/index.cfm?action=profession&id_profession=12142) - could identify such a region with the location property (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#location).
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
10 February 2017
DisjointWith
Qualification
Skill
History note
en2013-06-27 An Occupation that is a MemberConcept: - Initially coming from the Occupations listed by the Swedisch PES in tab of file Taxonomy 3 - Taxonomy db DB 20 l-corr.xls. An Occupation that is a GroupConcept: - Initially coming from the file ISCO '88 codes 25l.xls
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enOccupation
SeeAlso
belongs to ISCO Group with code
ESCO Concept
has NACE code
location
SubClassOf
Member concept

Organization

3 December 2013

original label

The original label of a concept of a support taxonomy. Provided in case the preferred label has been replaced by an ESCO specific one. Typically used on arguable names for exceptional concepts like 'Country'

Comment
enThe original label of a concept of a support taxonomy. Provided in case the preferred label has been replaced by an ESCO specific one. Typically used on arguable names for exceptional concepts like 'Country'
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enoriginal label
Range
PlainLiteral
Rule
There may be at most 1 originalLabel per language for any Concept.
SubPropertyOf
label
Term_status
released

page

plusUse

Deprecated
true

Property

Qualification

A qualification is a formal outcome of an assessment and validation process, which is obtained when a competent body determines that an individual has achieved learning outcomes to given standards.List of properties on a qualification defined by the QMS application profile: - adms:identifier (1..n) - esco:referenceLanguage (0..n) - skos:prefLabel (1..n) - skos:altLabel (0..n) - skos:definition (0..n) - dcterms:description (1..n) - esco:hasISCED-FCode (1..n) - esco:hasAssociation (0..n) - esco:hasECTSCreditPoints (0..1) - esco:volumeOfLearning (0..1) - esco:isPartialQualification (0..1) - esco:waysToAcquire (0..n) - esco:expiryPeriod (0..n) - esco:hasRecognition (0..n) - esco:hasAwardingActivity (0..n) - esco:hasAccreditation (0..n) - foaf:homepage (0..n) - dcat:landingPage (0..n) - esco:supplementaryDoc (0..n) - dcterms:issued (1..1) - dcterms:modified (1..1) - skos:changeNote (0..1) - skos:historyNote (0..1) - esco:additionalNote (0..n) - dcterms:replaces (0..n) - dcterms:isReplacedBy (0..n) - iso-thes:status (0..1) - dcterms:creator (0..1) - dcterms:rightsHolder (0..1) - dcterms:publisher (1..1)

Comment
enA qualification is a formal outcome of an assessment and validation process, which is obtained when a competent body determines that an individual has achieved learning outcomes to given standards.
enList of properties on a qualification defined by the QMS application profile: - adms:identifier (1..n) - esco:referenceLanguage (0..n) - skos:prefLabel (1..n) - skos:altLabel (0..n) - skos:definition (0..n) - dcterms:description (1..n) - esco:hasISCED-FCode (1..n) - esco:hasAssociation (0..n) - esco:hasECTSCreditPoints (0..1) - esco:volumeOfLearning (0..1) - esco:isPartialQualification (0..1) - esco:waysToAcquire (0..n) - esco:expiryPeriod (0..n) - esco:hasRecognition (0..n) - esco:hasAwardingActivity (0..n) - esco:hasAccreditation (0..n) - foaf:homepage (0..n) - dcat:landingPage (0..n) - esco:supplementaryDoc (0..n) - dcterms:issued (1..1) - dcterms:modified (1..1) - skos:changeNote (0..1) - skos:historyNote (0..1) - esco:additionalNote (0..n) - dcterms:replaces (0..n) - dcterms:isReplacedBy (0..n) - iso-thes:status (0..1) - dcterms:creator (0..1) - dcterms:rightsHolder (0..1) - dcterms:publisher (1..1)
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enQualification
SubClassOf
Concept
MemberConcept
10 February 2017

qualification

The ESCO qualification (certification) that is required for the subject occupation or skill.

Comment
enThe ESCO qualification (certification) that is required for the subject occupation or skill.
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
10 February 2017
Deprecated
true
Domain

A44

UnionOf

A61

First
Occupation
Rest

A62

First
Skill
Rest
nil
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enqualification
Range
Qualification
SubPropertyOf
has related
27 June 2013

qualification expiration period

Period how long a qualification is valid. Example: a qualification for aircraft pilot may be subject to hours flight and/or testing within a specified period in order to pro-long the qualification.

Comment
enPeriod how long a qualification is valid. Example: a qualification for aircraft pilot may be subject to hours flight and/or testing within a specified period in order to pro-long the qualification.
Date Modified
27 June 2013
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enqualification expiration period
Range
duration

Recognition

The recognition class is used to specify information related to the formal recognition of a qualification and/or awarding body. It is used to model a national or regional authority that formally recognises a qualification and/or a certain awarding body

Comment
enThe recognition class is used to specify information related to the formal recognition of a qualification and/or awarding body. It is used to model a national or regional authority that formally recognises a qualification and/or a certain awarding body
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enRecognition
SeeAlso
has recognition
27 June 2013

Reference language

QMS usage: The ISO 639-1 code of the language (2-char language code) in which information about the qualification is provided. This language will be used as the default reference language for the qualification.QMS usage: The range must be a rdfs:Literal typed as xsd:language.Reference language for a concept. Typically set when the concept is first loaded with PT in (at least) 1 language. (If multiple but not all languages are provided, the reference language must be uniquely set to one of the loaded languages.) In case the concept needs to be shown or translated in a new language (not having a PT yet), the label in the reference language is shown.

Comment
enQMS usage: The ISO 639-1 code of the language (2-char language code) in which information about the qualification is provided. This language will be used as the default reference language for the qualification.
enQMS usage: The range must be a rdfs:Literal typed as xsd:language.
enReference language for a concept. Typically set when the concept is first loaded with PT in (at least) 1 language. (If multiple but not all languages are provided, the reference language must be uniquely set to one of the loaded languages.) In case the concept needs to be shown or translated in a new language (not having a PT yet), the label in the reference language is shown.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
27 June 2013
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enReference language
Range
language
26 August 2014

regultated profession note

The subject occupation is regulated according the description in the note. The note typically contains a hyperlink.

Comment
enThe subject occupation is regulated according the description in the note. The note typically contains a hyperlink.
Date Modified
26 August 2014
Domain
Occupation
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enregultated profession note
SubPropertyOf
note
27 June 2013

relevant URL

A web site that is relevant for the subject (any modelled class, including an ESCO concept or term). Such URL may be part literal content value of a description, a definition or a scope note. A relevant URI may be language specific (hence the range is literal).

Comment
enA web site that is relevant for the subject (any modelled class, including an ESCO concept or term). Such URL may be part literal content value of a description, a definition or a scope note. A relevant URI may be language specific (hence the range is literal).
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
27 June 2013
Deprecated
true
Domain

A13

UnionOf

A4

First
ESCO concept Label
Rest

A5

First
Concept
Rest
nil
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enrelevant URL
Range
Literal
21 April 2015

replaced by

Typical for a deprecated concept that has been replaced by one or more other concepts.

Comment
enTypical for a deprecated concept that has been replaced by one or more other concepts.
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
21 April 2015
Deprecated
true
Domain
Concept
InverseOf
replaces
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enreplaced by
Range
Concept
Rule
PREFIX esco: <http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#> PREFIX terms <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> PREFIX rdf <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> CONSTRUCT { ?A esco:replacedBy ?B . } WHERE { ?A terms:isReplacedBy ?B ; rdf:type esco:Concept . ?B rdf:type esco:Concept . }
21 April 2015

replaces

Typical for a deprecated concept that replaces one or more other concepts.

Comment
enTypical for a deprecated concept that replaces one or more other concepts.
Date Issued
17 December 2013
Date Modified
21 April 2015
Deprecated
true
Domain
Concept
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enreplaces
Range
Concept
Rule
PREFIX esco: <http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#> PREFIX terms <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> PREFIX rdf <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> CONSTRUCT { ?A esco:replaces ?B . } WHERE { ?A terms:replaces ?B ; rdf:type esco:Concept . ?B rdf:type esco:Concept . }

requirement level

Refers to a skos:Concept that indicates the requirement level of a certain entry requirement. It indicates the necessity of the entry requirement

Comment
enRefers to a skos:Concept that indicates the requirement level of a certain entry requirement. It indicates the necessity of the entry requirement
Deprecated
true
Domain
entry requirement
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enrequirement level
Range
Concept
SeeAlso
entry requirement

Resource

Comment
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enreview date
Range
dateTime
SeeAlso
Accreditation

rule

Deprecated
true
8 June 2016

Simple ESCO concept

The class of simple ESCO concepts. A simple ESCO concept is not decomposed into components (for compound ESCO concepts see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#FacetedConcept). A simple concept may be further specialized by faceted concepts. The facets used for this specialization are represented by the property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#facet.

Comment
enThe class of simple ESCO concepts. A simple ESCO concept is not decomposed into components (for compound ESCO concepts see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#FacetedConcept). A simple concept may be further specialized by faceted concepts. The facets used for this specialization are represented by the property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#facet.
Date Issued
3 February 2014
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enSimple ESCO concept
SeeAlso
Faceted ESCO concept
specializing facet
SubClassOf
ESCO Concept
3 December 2013

Skill

The class of ESCO Skill concepts. ESCO skills are sub-typed (e.g. to differentiate between knowledge and competence). This sub-typing is modelled using the concept class http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SkillCompetenceType Concept class for organization is http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SkillReuseLevel ESCO skills with a different re-use applicability across sectors can be put in a hierarchical relation (skos:broader and skos:narrower) in acordance with the rules detailed by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SkillReuseLevel. Characteristics - An ESCO skill sub-type is given by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#skillType - An ESCO skill re-use level is given by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#skillReuseLevel An ESCO Skill may be related to other ESCO concepts. - Essential related concepts of class esco:Skills are indicated by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isEssentialSkillFor and http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relatedEssentialSkill - Optional related concepts of class esco:Skills are indicated http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isOptionalSkillFor and http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relatedOptionalSkill - Occupations a skill is essential for are concepts of type esco:Occupation indicated by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isEssentialSkillFor - Occupations a skill is optional for are concepts of type esco:Occupation indicated by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isEssentialSkillFor The property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasRelationship details the relationships (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Relationship)

Comment
enThe class of ESCO Skill concepts. ESCO skills are sub-typed (e.g. to differentiate between knowledge and competence). This sub-typing is modelled using the concept class http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SkillCompetenceType Concept class for organization is http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SkillReuseLevel ESCO skills with a different re-use applicability across sectors can be put in a hierarchical relation (skos:broader and skos:narrower) in acordance with the rules detailed by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#SkillReuseLevel. Characteristics - An ESCO skill sub-type is given by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#skillType - An ESCO skill re-use level is given by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#skillReuseLevel An ESCO Skill may be related to other ESCO concepts. - Essential related concepts of class esco:Skills are indicated by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isEssentialSkillFor and http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relatedEssentialSkill - Optional related concepts of class esco:Skills are indicated http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isOptionalSkillFor and http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#relatedOptionalSkill - Occupations a skill is essential for are concepts of type esco:Occupation indicated by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isEssentialSkillFor - Occupations a skill is optional for are concepts of type esco:Occupation indicated by http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#isEssentialSkillFor The property http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#hasRelationship details the relationships (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Relationship)
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Definition
enA skill may also be an informal recognition of a competence. The recognition typically is obtained by experience, practice or informal tests.
History note
en2013-06-27: A Skill that is a MemberConcept: - Initially (i.e. ESCOv0) coming from the Swedisch PES Skills tab in file Taxonomy 3 - Taxonomy db DB 20 l-corr.xls. - Initially (i.e. ESCOv0) linked as related concepts to leaf occupation groups as described in ISCO_SKILLS.xls. A Skill that is a GroupConcept: - Is created by ESCO
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enSkill
SeeAlso
Qualification
Skill reuse level
skill type
SubClassOf
Member concept
Deprecated
true
Label
enSkill Competence Type
8 June 2016

Skill reuse level

Re-usability level of a Skill or competence. Details are provided by the ESCOpedia article on Cross-sector skills and competences (see https://ec.europa.eu/esco/escopedia/-/escopedia/Cross-sector_skills_and_competences?resetLanguage=true&newLanguage=en") A skill with re-use level A can only be a broader of a skill with reuse level B if either of the following holds: - reuse level A = reuse level B - reuse level A is a broader transitive of reuse level B. A skill can have at most one re-use level (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Skill).

Comment
enRe-usability level of a Skill or competence. Details are provided by the ESCOpedia article on Cross-sector skills and competences (see https://ec.europa.eu/esco/escopedia/-/escopedia/Cross-sector_skills_and_competences?resetLanguage=true&newLanguage=en") A skill with re-use level A can only be a broader of a skill with reuse level B if either of the following holds: - reuse level A = reuse level B - reuse level A is a broader transitive of reuse level B. A skill can have at most one re-use level (see http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#Skill).
Date Issued
5 June 2013
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Label
enSkill reuse level
SeeAlso
Skill
SubClassOf
Concept
8 June 2016

skill reuseability level

Reuseability level of a skill

Comment
enReuseability level of a skill
Date Issued
5 June 2014
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Domain
Skill
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enskill reuseability level
Range
Concept
SubPropertyOf
subject
3 December 2013

skill type

Type of competence (a tagging concept)

Comment
enType of competence (a tagging concept)
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Domain
Skill
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enskill type
Range
Competence sub-type
SubPropertyOf
subject
Deprecated
true
8 April 2014

sorting string

The formatted string used to establish sorting among concepts. Deprecated by use of skos:OrderedCollection and iso-thes:subordinateArray

Comment
enThe formatted string used to establish sorting among concepts. Deprecated by use of skos:OrderedCollection and iso-thes:subordinateArray
Date Issued
8 April 2014
Date Modified
8 April 2014
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
ensorting string
Range
Literal
SeeAlso
Ordered Collection
subordinateArray
8 June 2016

specializing facet

The facet concept group, a group of concepts used to expand: - the subject (ESCO) concept or - all the members concepts of the subject Collection to build ESCO (compound) faceted concepts. An ESCO concept may have different aspects or facets that can specialize the ESCO concept. A well known example is the (foreign) language skills. - the main aspect of the (foreign) language skill is the identification of the foreign language The specialized concepts thus constructed are: - (foreign) language skill Albanian, - (foreign) labguage skill Bulgarian, - ... - the (main) facet (e.g. a set of languages) occasional is extended by (sub-) facets that can be added. E.g. a (sub-) facet of language (skill) are the specialized levels defined by CEFR writing, understanding interactively, ...) The relationship between facet groups (in the example above "language" and "CEFR language skill level" can be made 2-way (from "language" to "language skill level" and the inverse). In addition, the "(foreign) language skill" can have as facet (i.e. be specialized) by as well "language" as by "CEFR language skill level". As a result, the ESCO concept "(foreign) language skill" can be specialized in two different ways: - first by language then by language skill level or - first by language skill level then by language Both navigation hierarchies ultimatly hold the same set of (compound) faceted concepts (e.g. "(foreign) language skill" "writing" "Bulgarian". In general: - concept - - &lt;concept by facet group 1&gt; - - - [concept + facet group 1 member] - - - - &lt;[concept + facet group 1 member] by facet group 2&gt; - - - - - [concept + facet group 1 member + facet group 2 member] - - - - - ... (other facet group 2 members) - - - ... (other facet group 1 members) - - &lt;concept by facet group 2&gt; - - - [concept + facet group 2 member] - - - - &lt;[concept + facet group 2 member] by facet group 1&gt; - - - - - [concept + facet group 2 member + facet group 1 member] - - - - - ... (other facet group 1 members) - - - ... (other facet group 2 members)

Comment
enThe facet concept group, a group of concepts used to expand: - the subject (ESCO) concept or - all the members concepts of the subject Collection to build ESCO (compound) faceted concepts. An ESCO concept may have different aspects or facets that can specialize the ESCO concept. A well known example is the (foreign) language skills. - the main aspect of the (foreign) language skill is the identification of the foreign language The specialized concepts thus constructed are: - (foreign) language skill Albanian, - (foreign) labguage skill Bulgarian, - ... - the (main) facet (e.g. a set of languages) occasional is extended by (sub-) facets that can be added. E.g. a (sub-) facet of language (skill) are the specialized levels defined by CEFR writing, understanding interactively, ...) The relationship between facet groups (in the example above "language" and "CEFR language skill level" can be made 2-way (from "language" to "language skill level" and the inverse). In addition, the "(foreign) language skill" can have as facet (i.e. be specialized) by as well "language" as by "CEFR language skill level". As a result, the ESCO concept "(foreign) language skill" can be specialized in two different ways: - first by language then by language skill level or - first by language skill level then by language Both navigation hierarchies ultimatly hold the same set of (compound) faceted concepts (e.g. "(foreign) language skill" "writing" "Bulgarian". In general: - concept - - &lt;concept by facet group 1&gt; - - - [concept + facet group 1 member] - - - - &lt;[concept + facet group 1 member] by facet group 2&gt; - - - - - [concept + facet group 1 member + facet group 2 member] - - - - - ... (other facet group 2 members) - - - ... (other facet group 1 members) - - &lt;concept by facet group 2&gt; - - - [concept + facet group 2 member] - - - - &lt;[concept + facet group 2 member] by facet group 1&gt; - - - - - [concept + facet group 2 member + facet group 1 member] - - - - - ... (other facet group 1 members) - - - ... (other facet group 2 members)
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
8 June 2016
Deprecated
true
Domain

A2

UnionOf

A3

First
Collection
Rest

A65

First
Concept
Rest
nil
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enspecializing facet
Range
Facet concept group

status

subject

Comment
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
ensupplementary doc
Range
Document
SubPropertyOf
page
3 December 2013

supported language

Denotes a description of the languages supported by the (subject) concept scheme. Required for ESCO taxonomy or thesauri.

Comment
enDenotes a description of the languages supported by the (subject) concept scheme. Required for ESCO taxonomy or thesauri.
Date Issued
27 June 2013
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Deprecated
true
Domain
Concept scheme (ESCO pillar)
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
ensupported language
Range
Language

Target URL

The URL of a node in another established framework.

Comment
enThe URL of a node in another established framework.
Deprecated
true
Domain
Association object
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enTarget URL
Range
anyURI
SeeAlso
Association object
association to
target framework

Target description

A free-text description of a node in another established framework.

Comment
enA free-text description of a node in another established framework.
Deprecated
true
Domain
Association object
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enTarget description
Range
Literal
SeeAlso
Association object
association to
target framework

target framework

The framework to which the resource being described is associated. It is the framework that describes the target resource (the associated resource) (e.g. ESCO classification system, national qualification framework system,..). It is recommended that the target framework is denoted by a known resource (e.g. a adms:Asset, a dcat:Dataset, a conceptscheme)

Comment
enThe framework to which the resource being described is associated. It is the framework that describes the target resource (the associated resource) (e.g. ESCO classification system, national qualification framework system,..). It is recommended that the target framework is denoted by a known resource (e.g. a adms:Asset, a dcat:Dataset, a conceptscheme)
Domain
Association object
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
entarget framework
SeeAlso
Association object
association to

Target name

The name or value of a node in another established framework.

Comment
enThe name or value of a node in another established framework.
Deprecated
true
Domain
Association object
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enTarget name
Range
Literal
SeeAlso
Association object
association to
target framework
Comment
Deprecated
true
Domain
Association object
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
entarget notation
Range
Literal
SeeAlso
Association object
association to
target framework
26 January 2024

The ESCO ontology

The ontology of the taxonomy European Skills, Competences, qualifications and Occupations.

Abstract
enThe ontology of the taxonomy "European Skills, Competences, qualifications and Occupations". The ontology considers three ESCO pillars (or taxonomy) and 2 registers. The three pillars are: - Occupation - Skill (and competences) - Qualification For the construction and use of the ESCO pillars, the following modelling artefacts are used: - SKOS mapping properties to relate ESCO pillar concepts to concepts in other (external) taxonomies (e.g. ISCED-FoET and ISCO08. More mappings can be added in the future.) - Tagging ESCO pillar concepts by other (external) taxonomies (NUTS, EQF, NACE, ...), these taggings are defined using ESCO structures - Capture gender specifics on the labels of the ESCO pillar concepts - Rich ESCO concept relationships holding a description and other specific characteristics of the relation between two ESCO pillar concepts. ESCO maintains two additional registers: - Awarding Body - Work Context Awarding Bodies typically are referenced by ESCO qualifications. Occupations can have one or more work context.
Contributor
Agis Papantoniou (NTT, Cognizone)
Bernard Vatan (Mondeca)
Karel Kremer (TenForce)
Laurent Bégin (Mondeca)
Martin Le Vrang (DG-EMPL, Approver)
Massimiliano Molinari (DG-EMPL, Reviewer)
Niels Vandekeybus (TenForce)
Pieter Fannes (Everis, Cognizone)
Creator
Johan De Smedt (TenForce)
Date Modified
26 January 2024
Description
enThe ontology of the taxonomy European Skills, Competences, qualifications and Occupations.
Imports
adms
skos-thes
SKOS Vocabulary
skos-xl
IncompatibleWith
1.0
License
https://eupl.eu/1.2/en/
PreferredNamespacePrefix
esco
PreferredNamespaceUri
http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#
PriorVersion
1.2
Publisher
COM
Status
draft
Title
enThe ESCO ontology
VersionInfo
2.0.0
VersionIRI
2.0.0
2013-12-05

thesaurus concept and label publication status type

list of status values used for managing ESCO release status. On creation of a concept or label, the default state is "to be reviewed" On deprecation of a concept the concept state becomed "obsolete" When a wrongly deprecated concept is revived, the state becomes "to be reviewed" When the thesaurus is published, the statuss becomes "released" All state changes are system managed.

Comment
enlist of status values used for managing ESCO release status. On creation of a concept or label, the default state is "to be reviewed" On deprecation of a concept the concept state becomed "obsolete" When a wrongly deprecated concept is revived, the state becomes "to be reviewed" When the thesaurus is published, the statuss becomes "released" All state changes are system managed.
Date Modified
2013-12-05
EquivalentClass

A49

UnionOf

A50

First

A66

OnDatatype
string
WithRestrictions

A21

First

A22

Pattern
obsolete
Rest
nil
Rest

A36

First

A34

OnDatatype
string
WithRestrictions

A35

First

A64

Pattern
released
Rest
nil
Rest

A37

First

A51

OnDatatype
string
WithRestrictions

A0

First

A1

Pattern
to be reviewed
Rest
nil
Rest
nil
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enthesaurus concept and label publication status type
3 February 2014

to ESCO concept

The ESCO concept referred by the (subject) ESCO relationship. The esco:Relationship gives a more elaborate semantic description of related ESCO concepts. These related concepts are identied by the esco:Relationship propertief - esco:isRelationshipFor - esco:refersConcept Further semantics are provided by - a relationshipt type - a description - .. (other possible extensions)

Comment
enThe ESCO concept referred by the (subject) ESCO relationship. The esco:Relationship gives a more elaborate semantic description of related ESCO concepts. These related concepts are identied by the esco:Relationship propertief - esco:isRelationshipFor - esco:refersConcept Further semantics are provided by - a relationshipt type - a description - .. (other possible extensions)
Date Issued
3 December 2013
Date Modified
3 February 2014
Deprecated
true
Domain
ESCO concepts Relationship
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
ento ESCO concept
Range
ESCO Concept
10 April 2015

transitive replaced by

Typical for a chain of changes and deprecations of a concept over different versions.

Comment
enTypical for a chain of changes and deprecations of a concept over different versions.
Date Issued
30 May 2014
Date Modified
10 April 2015
Deprecated
true
Domain
Concept
InverseOf
transitively replaces
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
entransitive replaced by
Range
Concept
10 April 2015

transitively replaces

Typical for a chain of deprecated concepts that replaces one or more other concepts over more than one version.

Comment
enTypical for a chain of deprecated concepts that replaces one or more other concepts over more than one version.
Date Issued
30 May 2014
Date Modified
10 April 2015
Deprecated
true
Domain
Concept
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
entransitively replaces
Range
Concept
3 December 2013

undefined

undefined skill is a skill that has no optional, recommended or required property assigned to it.

Change note
enESCOv0 has 102K undefined relations. These cannot be inherited in v1 as occupations are redefined - maybe after merging a decision needs to be taken: - make relatedOptionalSkill - make relatedEssentialSkill - remove the related:undefined.
Comment
enundefined skill is a skill that has no optional, recommended or required property assigned to it.
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Deprecated
true
History note
enDeprecated with Model version 1.
InverseOf
undefined skill of
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enundefined
SubPropertyOf
has related
3 December 2013

undefined skill of

Change note
enESCOv0 has 102K undefined relations. See http://data.europa.eu/esco/model#undefined.
Date Modified
3 December 2013
Deprecated
true
History note
enDeprecated with Model version 1.
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enundefined skill of
SeeAlso
undefined
SubPropertyOf
has related

volume of learning

Indicates how many hours of learning effort is needed to acquire a particular qualification (notional learning hours).

Comment
enIndicates how many hours of learning effort is needed to acquire a particular qualification (notional learning hours).
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
envolume of learning
Range
duration

way to acquire

Refers to a skos:Concept that indicates whether the qualification can be acquired by validation of a formal, non-formal and/or informal learning processes.

Comment
enRefers to a skos:Concept that indicates whether the qualification can be acquired by validation of a formal, non-formal and/or informal learning processes.
Deprecated
true
Domain
Qualification
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enway to acquire
Range
Concept
Deprecated
true
Label
enWork Context Concept Scheme
10 August 2014

Work context

The class of work contexts registered by ESCO A work context iIdentifies types of business, environmental conditions, types of product, etc.

Comment
enThe class of work contexts registered by ESCO A work context iIdentifies types of business, environmental conditions, types of product, etc.
Date Issued
10 August 2014
Date Modified
10 August 2014
Deprecated
true
IsDefinedBy
The ESCO ontology
Label
enWork context
SubClassOf
Concept