Bontas. Practical Guidelines for Building Semantic eRecruitment Applications

Abstract: This paper describes practical lessons learned in the project Knowledge Nets which examines the technological feasibility of the upcoming Semantic Web and the business implications of using these technologies in specific market sectors. In developing a Human Resource ontology to inject semantics-awareness to current job portals, we investigated the potential of reusing the huge amount of domain knowledge already available in ontology-like form in the eRecruitment domain as an input for the domain conceptualization. According to our experiences we confirm previous findings in the knowledge acquisition literature and in recent surveys of the state of the art in the ontology engineering area: 1) building ontology-based applications is still a tedious process mainly due to the lack of mature tools and methods which can handle the requirements of real-world applications; and 2) using existing ontologies in new application contexts is currently related to considerable efforts which should not be neglected by the engineering team. We use the insights gained during this project to derive a set of guidelines for developing Semantic Web applications in similar domains