Language Competencies in Schema.org

[HughP]

Greetings,

In the context of expressing a CV/Resume (for an academic linguist) I am looking for the best way to express in the schema.org vocabulary the languages that the individual knows. Typically on a CV (for a linguist) we will see something like the following:

Languages:
Spanish (excellent),
German (good),
Portuguese (read well, speak limited);
Russian (studied, no speaking competency);
Nahuatl (good, field research language);
K’iche’ (good, field research language);
Quechua (fair, field research language);
Maori (structure, poor reading knowledge);
Samoan (course taken).

I could describe this in the following way:

<script type="application/ld+json">
 { "@context":  {
    "@vocab": "http://www.schema.org/",
    "@language": "en-US"},
  "@graph": [
  {
   "@type": "person",
   "name": "Hugh Paterson III",
    "knowsLanguage": [ 
       "de-DE",
       "en-US",
       "es",
       "qu",
       "pt-colb1945",
       "nah",
       "quc",
       "mi",
       "sm"
    ]
    }
   ]
 }
</script>

However, this method does not allow me to describe the various levels of proficiency that a person is attributed with. In the documentation it says

We do not distinguish skill levels or reading/writing/speaking/signing here.

• Also note that in many smaller languages of the world there is no formal test for proficiency. So I can not simply structure this as hasCredential https://schema.org/hasCredential.
• I thought about looking at these as skills but, https://schema.org/skills does not extend to people.
• https://schema.org/Specialty also does not seem to extend to people.
• I also thought about using knowsAbout https://schema.org/knowsAbout but its documentation says: "to indicate a topic that is known about - suggesting possible expertise but not implying it. We do not distinguish skill levels here, or relate this to educational content, events, objectives or JobPosting descriptions." Discussion in schemaorg/schemaorg#1688 has some relevant issues as they occur in Journalism, but coming from the point of view of a Resume or CV this is perhaps a different sort of use case. However, in terms of search and discovery this is certainly a similar function to the journalism use case — A resume helps organizations find talent and skills for a job to be done.

Any pointers or suggestions would be appreciated.

[jmarks]

Hugh,If I recall correctly, we were looking at expressing competency framework nodes as defined terms: https://schema.org/DefinedTerm And you can use the alignment object to point to a trem, at least for a learning resource: https://schema.org/AlignmentObject Sent via the Samsung Galaxy A10e, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message --------From: HughP <notifications@github.com> Date: 4/24/20 11:02 AM (GMT-08:00) To: schemaorg/schemaorg <schemaorg@noreply.github.com> Cc: Subscribed <subscribed@noreply.github.com> Subject: [schemaorg/schemaorg] Language Competencies in Schema.org  (#2550) Greetings, In the context of expressing a CV/Resume (for an academic linguist) I am looking for the best way to express in the schema.org vocabulary the languages that the individual knows. Typically on a CV (for a linguist) we will see something like the following: Languages: Spanish (excellent), German (good), Portuguese (read well, speak limited); Russian (studied, no speaking competency); Nahuatl (good, field research language); K’iche’ (good, field research language); Quechua (fair, field research language); Maori (structure, poor reading knowledge); Samoan (course taken). I could describe this in the following way: <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": { "@vocab": "http://www.schema.org/", "@language": "en-US"}, "@graph": [ { "@type": "person", "name": "Hugh Paterson III", "knowsLanguage": [ "de-DE", "en-US ] } ] } </script> However, this method does not allow me to describe the various levels of proficiency that a person is attributed with. In the documentation it says We do not distinguish skill levels or reading/writing/speaking/signing here. Also note that in many smaller languages of the world there is no formal test for proficiency. So I can not simply structure this as hasCredential https://schema.org/hasCredential. I thought about looking at these as skills but, https://schema.org/skills does not extend to people. https://schema.org/Specialty also does not seem to extend to people. I also thought about using knowsAbout https://schema.org/knowsAbout but its documentation says: "to indicate a topic that is known about - suggesting possible expertise but not implying it. We do not distinguish skill levels here, or relate this to educational content, events, objectives or JobPosting descriptions." Discussion in schemaorg/schemaorg#1688 has some relevant issues as they occur in Journalism, but coming from the point of view of a Resume or CV this is perhaps a different sort of use case. However, in terms of search and discovery this is certainly a similar function to the journalism use case — A resume helps organizations find talent and skills for a job to be done. Any pointers or suggestions would be appreciated. —You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. [ { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "EmailMessage", "potentialAction": { "@type": "ViewAction", "target": "https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/2550", "url": "https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/2550", "name": "View Issue" }, "description": "View this Issue on GitHub", "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "GitHub", "url": "https://github.com" } } ]

[RichardWallis]

See issue #7 for the context of the move from the main Schema.org issue tracker to this repository.