%0 Journal Article %T Skill Ontology for Mechanical Design of Learning Contents %A Jun Zhou %A Keiichi Watanuki %J Journal of Software %D 2012 %I Academy Publisher %R 10.4304/jsw.7.1.61-67 %X In recent years, the effect of globalization environment, and the aging of engineers and skill workers have tremendously changed the manufacture industry, therefore, transfer of technology and skill has become a very important issue. Parallel with the advancement of the Internet, e-learning systems stress on the learning of knowledge, skill transfer is rarely mentioned. In this paper, we propose a skill ontology that consists of metadata and relationships among metadata. With the skill ontology, the document can be shared, inter-operated and thus increase the efficiency of learning process. %K skill ontology %K mechanical design %K metadata %K learning contents %U http://ojs.academypublisher.com/index.php/jsw/article/view/4793