Skill collection
Definition
A skill collection is a specific categorization of skills, independent from the skill structure.
Description
Skill collections are created to address the need for categorizations of skills beyond the groupings that already exist in the skill structure. They enable flexibility in terms of non-hierarchical categorizations of the skills within the Taxonomy.
A skill collection is represented as its own concept in the Taxonomy, see for example Kompetensbegrepp med grön koppling, but can also be seen as a kind of metadata for the skills that are linked to the collection.
Skill collections based on ESCO
The editorial team at JobTech, within the Swedish Public Employment Service, has conducted a mapping of ESCO's green and digital skills against the skills in the Taxonomy. The mapping has been done according to ESCO's method description. The work has primarily been conducted manually, with some AI-generated suggestions for relevant mappings. The process was such that based on the descriptions available for ESCO's skill concepts, assessments were made regarding suitable mappings to the Taxonomy skills.
To map concepts in national classifications against concepts in ESCO, mapping relations are used to describe how well the meanings of the concepts correspond. The four distinct relations express when a concept (1) is broader, (2) is more narrow, (3) is an exact match (4) is a close match. Some examples of relations based on the mapping of green ESCO skills:
The first row in the table above reads as follows: for the skill Berggrundsgeologi there is a relation to the more general/broader ESCO skill geologi. The definition of the ESCO skill is therefore broader than the meaning of the Taxonomy skill. The reverse relationship also applies between the concepts, that is, the definition of the skill Berggrundsgeologi is narrower than the definition of the ESCO skill geologi.
For Avfallsteknik, there is a relation to the more specialized/narrower ESCO skill utveckla förfaranden för avfallshantering. Thus, the definition of the ESCO skill is narrower than the definition of the Taxonomy skill.
For Miljökonsekvensanalys, there is a relation to the corresponding ESCO skill bedöma miljöpåverkan. The concepts are expressed differently but are considered to have the same meaning.
Jordbruksturism, is closely matched to the ESCO skill tillhandahålla tjänster inom landsbygdsturism. It is assessed that there are parts of the definition of each concept that correspond to each other, such as certain tasks, but also parts that do not correspond.
From the mapping, it is apparent that it is common for several ESCO skills to be mapped against one or more broader Taxonomy skills. An example of this is the Taxonomy skill Avfallsteknik, which is mapped towards twenty different ESCO skills. This is an expected result since there is a relatively large difference in detail level between Taxonomy skills and ESCO skills.
The collections
The skill collections based on ESCO are as follows:
Skills related to the skill collection Kompetenser med grön koppling or Kompetenser med digital koppling are mapped to one, or several, ESCO skills that have been classified as either green or digital.
In the example below, the skill Miljökonsekvensanalys illustrates how the mapping (exact-match) to a green ESCO skill, in this case bedöma miljöpåverkan, results in the skill being linked to the skill collection Kompetenser med grön koppling. The exact same principle applies to the skill collection Kompetenser med digital koppling.
graph LR;
B --related--> A
B --exact-match--> C
C --related--> D
subgraph "skill-collection"
A("Kompetenser med grön koppling")
end
subgraph "skill"
B("Miljökonsekvensanalys");
end
subgraph "esco-skill"
C("bedöma miljöpåverkan");
end
subgraph "esco-skill-collection"
D("Gröna ESCO-kompetenser");
end
GraphQL examples
Below examples can be tested through our Graphi-QL GUI.
Get all skill collections
query MyQuery {
concepts(version: "next", type: "skill-collection") {
id
preferred_label
definition
type
}
}
Get all skills with green mappings
We base the query on yXbD_NTH_ijE, which is the concept-id for the skill collection Kompetenser med grön koppling, and query for all skills that have a related relation to the collection.
query MyQuery {
concepts(id: "yXbD_NTH_ijE") {
id
preferred_label
type
related(type: "skill"){
id
preferred_label
type
}
}
}
Get all skills with digital mappings
We base the query on 4Jty_HpK_a3Q, which is the concept-id for the skill collection Kompetenser med digital koppling, and query for all skills that have a related relation to the collection.
query MyQuery {
concepts(id: "4Jty_HpK_a3Q") {
id
preferred_label
type
related(type: "skill"){
id
preferred_label
type
}
}
}