Conditions, Requirements, and Guidelines to a Universal, Integrative Model of Digitally Operable Competence Representations

Abstract

This paper addresses the strategic need to define and establish a global digital infrastructure for a distributed, integrative competence management system. It summarizes and details hitherto research and conception of the author since 2004 and intends to blaze a trail for future strategic research transversal to disciplines, contexts, and stakeholders. Essential element of this system is an operative, distributed, pervasive, and semantic competence representation model. Conditions for such a model are described using a competence definition, a reference model with a framework of system functions, and a plan for further activities. Functional requirements regarding type and composition of a representation model are analyzed, and guidelines for a model proposed.