Tell me what you know or i'll tell you what you know: Skill map ontology for information technology courseware

This paper is a result of researches being conducted on creating knowledge exchange platform for corporate environment. The project target is to integrate traditional eMarketplace with topic maps technology and to introduce new technology - Skill Maps - for representing individual employee knowledge. There is a need to create common ontology for Topic Maps and Skill Maps in order to coherently represent knowledge and knowledge profiles. Therefore, this project focuses on describing Topic Maps, introducing Skill Maps and proposing ontology for both of them.