Revealing Trends and Insights in Online Hiring Market Using Linking Open Data Cloud

How a business-related application that exploits open-data may look like is presented to the Semantic Web Challenge 2012 by Amar-Djalil Mezaour, Julien Law-To, Robert Isele, Thomas Schandl (SWC) and Gerd Zechmeister (SWC). The paper describes a prototypic linked data application for the Online Hiring Market.

”Active Hiring” is a search based application providing analytics on on-line job posts. This application uses services from the LOD cloud to disambiguate, geotag and interlink data entities acquired from on-line job boards web sites and provides a demonstration of the usefulness of linked open data in business setting.

The search based application that combines semantic technologies and services to produce Human Resources (HR) analytics and highlight major trends on online hiring market. So Active Hiring is a demonstration of the benefit of combining open data sets and services with semantic tools as a support technology for increasing the accuracy of business applications. The Active Hiring demonstrator has been developed within the activities of the European project LOD2.

Full paper: Revealing Trends and Insights in Online Hiring Market Using Linking Open Data Cloud: Active Hiring a Use Case Study (PDF)