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SemTech 2010 is the world’s largest, most authoritative conference on semantic technology for enterprise computing professionals. It covers every major technology and application area you’ll need to know.

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TenForce was asked to give a talk at the SemTech event.
Part 1: ESCO, a multilingual taxonomy of occupations and skills for a modern and adaptable European labour market
The European Commission is developing the ESCO taxonomy, which has the potential to become a European standard classification linking skills and competencies to occupations and learning outcomes. ESCO will not only help to improve matching between jobseekers and vacancies. It will be an important tool for better anticipation and monitoring of emerging skills demands on the labour market. Bridging between the labour market and the world of education, it can be used for a wide range of applications such as tools for guidance, training needs analyses, performance management and appraisals recognised Europe-wide.
Part 2: RDF and SKOS to distribute European taxonomies
Europe has multilingual thesauruses and taxonomies to categorize documents of many different types (research papers, law, CV, study, comments, …). Objective of this presentation is to explain the value, vision and importance of semantic technology for storing, publishing and using these metadata. This session will address the following topics:
  • Presentation of contents and goal of some important multilingual thesauruses and taxonomies
  • Explanation on how these thesauruses and taxonomies are stored with semantic technology and what the advantages are
  • Explanation on how these thesauruses and taxonomies are made available to the public as web pages but also in a machine-readable way
  • Proposal for a multi-thesaurus and multi-taxonomy Europe to distribute the effort and investments in this valuable contents
TenForce is a supplier of Thesaurus/Taxonomy Management Systems to the European Commission.
Johan De Smedt
Co-founder and CTO of TenForce, has over 30 years of experience in IT architecture in general. More specifically his expertise is in the field of modeling - information modeling, knowledge representation and software systems modeling – for a wide variety of domains such as publishing, telecom and manufacturing.

As a co-founder of TenForce, he is the driving force behind all semantic technology initiatives. Currently he is one of the pioneers in developing taxonomies and multilingual thesauri for European Commission projects for EURES (DG EMPL) and EUROVOC (OPOCE). Earlier he built decision technology for Wolters Kluwer Legal Tax & Regulatory Europe.
Henric Stjernquist
Principal administrator at the European Commission’s Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities Directorate General. He is in charge of the EURES Job Mobility portal, Europe's largest employment website. He is also the project manager at the European Commission for the development of the ESCO taxonomy of occupations and skills.

A lawyer by training he joined the European Commission in 1998 as the manager of the European Union’s legal database Celex. Before that he held management positions at Kommerskollegium, the Swedish National Board of Trade, where he – among other things - set up a European information and documentation centre.
June 29 - 2010, Semantic Meetup | Amsterdam
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Semantic Meetup, Tuesday 5:00 pm at De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam

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