Use semantic web to make Job Feed more effective
Current job feed has limited structured information:
Currently, job feed is a specific type of RSS feed. Because RSS specs define only a small number of attributes, it’s difficult to for RSS feed to capture every attributes of job information in separate fields. In stead, RSS feed usually combines everything in one job opening into a single field - the “description” field. Obviously, job data presented in RSS feed lacks the structure necessary for field-based search and comparison.
New RDF feed gives the detailed structure for job opening information:
I believe ontology and semantic web standard language RDF provide the perfect answer for job feed. The basic deal is simple: define an ontology for representing job opening information and then use it to encode job data in RDF format. Each job opening data exists as a RDF object with an unique URI. RDF job feed carries one or more such RDF objects for job opening data.
Because the semantic web is taking off, I believe job feed in RDF format will be automatically consumed by more and more job search engines. This means in the near future employers may only need to provide RDF job feeds for any new jobs. Once the job feed is created, the job openings will immediately become available to everyone on the web and they can be automatically compared to other openings in details.
Ufeed provides free RDF job feed service:
To enable employers to take advantage of the semantic web, last week I launched a new free online data feed service on the home page of web2express.org web site. You can use it to easily create job feeds in RDF format in addition to RSS2.0 format. Your feeds are immediately available to all search engines, which can acquire the RDF data and provide smart search on your job openings.
- AJ