As a part of my research at Hypios and LaLIC (Sorbonne), I investigate all the sources where we can find evidence of users’ competence. The Linked Data Cloud is full of data, and connections between datasets, but if I wanted to find the experts for a particular topic, I wouldn’t know where to start my search. Because of this I decided to create a map of Linked Data sources and relate them with the type of evidence of competence that they provide.

The first version of the map is published as a page on this blog, and I would like to invite all of you to give your comments and suggest improvements (click on the image to see larger version and the complementary explanations). This map should serve to all the people who are building Semantic Web applications related to competences and experts and help them identify relevant data sources.

If you know of a data source that is not on the map and merits to be there, please do let me know on milan.stankovic@hypios.com. In case you know of a data source relevant for competence and expertise evaluation, that is not a part of Linked Data, do not hesitate to inform me as a new map of not-yet-semantic data sources is coming soon. Maintainers of competence-related vocabularies are also more then welcome to get in touch with me.