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People Tagging and Ontology Maturing: Toward Collaborative Competence Management

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Competence management has received increasing attention as an implementation of a systematic approach to human resources management, e.g., part total of quality management approaches such as European Foundation of Quality Management (EFQM). Furthermore, trends such as recurring shortage of skilled workers and the anticipated demographic changes have led to an increasing awareness about employees’ capabilities.

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This work was co-funded by the European Commission under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) theme of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) within the Integrating Project MATURE15 and by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research within the project Im Wissensnetz.Footnote 2

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Braun, S., Kunzmann, C., Schmidt, A. (2010). People Tagging and Ontology Maturing: Toward Collaborative Competence Management. In: Randall, D., Salembier, P. (eds) From CSCW to Web 2.0: European Developments in Collaborative Design. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-965-7_7

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