Skill Ontology for Mechanical Design of Learning Contents

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.