PRESS RELEASE
TenForce and Mondeca deliver next generation Taxonomy Management System to Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the European Commission
Flexible and future proof management of the European taxonomy of Skills, Competences and Occupations terminology is one of the cornerstones in the New Skills for New Jobs initiative.
Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium
November 30, 2009
In order to support better matching between the supply and demand of skills and competencies on the European labour market, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities will develop a common European taxonomy of Skills, Competencies and Occupations, called ESCO.
The European Commission has selected TenForce and Mondeca as its technology providers. TenForce will act as an integrator of Mondeca’s advanced and solid Intelligent Topic Manager semantic software platform (ITM).
ESCO is the only skills and occupations taxonomy that is translated into 22 languages. The taxonomy contains 6000 skill descriptions (each occupation has been analyzed to establish the skills required in that occupation) and 5000 job titles.
The new system will contain a web-based taxonomy publication system developed by TenForce, and will rely on Mondeca’s ITM Terminology, Thesaurus, Taxonomy, Ontology management solution as its taxonomy edition component.
The taxonomy management system will allow the European Commission and its partners, namely the European Public Employment Services, to offer a more accurate, granular and richer matching of jobseekers to jobs at European level.
“Again our relentless efforts to bring solid & innovative semantic technology to the core of essential solutions has been rewarded,” says Bastiaan Deblieck, TenForce Sales & Marketing Manager.
“This is a tremendous validation of our semantic-based approach to metadata & knowledge management.”
Jean Delahousse, CEO of Mondeca said “This is another confirmation of Mondeca’s position as a leading supplier of multi-lingual semantic-based thesaurus and taxonomy management solutions.”
Mondeca is the software publisher of ITM, Intelligent Topic Manager, an ontology-based management solution.
ITM optimizes rich content organization and access by providing sophisticated support for the management of reference metadata, terminologies, taxonomies, domain-specific master data and knowledge bases.
ITM leverages these reference elements for content indexation and delivery of online navigation tools including taxonomies, indexes, and knowledge base navigation aids.
ITM conforms to several semantic technology and structured vocabulary standards including URI, RDF, OWL, SKOS, BS8723 and ISO 25964.
Mondeca’s solutions are being used in Europe, the USA and Canada for applications including domain-specific intranets, document archiving management, e-commerce web portal solutions, medical terminology management and legal publishing frameworks for clients including AFP, LexisNexis France, Wolters Kluwer Belgium, French government, PSA Peugeot-Citroen, French Ministry of Defense, Thomson Reuters, French National Railway Company (SNCF).
www.mondeca.com
Contact: Jean Delahousse
jean.delahousse@mondeca.com
+ 33 1 44 92 35 00
TenForce is a Belgian software company that has been active in the domain of semantic technology for more than 10 years.
It has a proven track record in taxonomy, thesaurus and meta data management, multi language content management, semantic portals, publication production and knowledge management.
It offers software services (analysis, design, develop, test, project management) and is also the maker of a pragmatic project management product. Customers include, among others,: OPOCE, Wolters Kluwer Belgium, Wolters Kluwer LTRE, Belgacom, Telenet, Roularta, De Persgroep.
www.tenforce.com
Contact: Bastiaan Deblieck
bastiaan.deblieck@tenforce.com
+32 (0) 16 31 48 60