Mission
Competencies should be understandable, portable and reviewable.
We connect organizations that treat skills data not as proprietary islands, but as interoperable infrastructure for HR, education, product development and public programs.
Consortium
Develop and review open skills standards transparently.
OSC is a working space for organizations that want to structure competency data together. Working groups collect requirements, test reference patterns with real data and document decisions on terms, evidence, interfaces and governance. Publications are marked as working draft, pilot or released recommendation.
Order
Open skills standards require shared responsibility.
OSC brings together organizations, experts and implementation teams that want to make competency data understandable, portable and verifiable. The focus is on interoperability, robust evidence and usable processes for HR, education, product development and public programs.
Working draft
Standards emerge from pilots, not from claims.
OSC marks reference patterns, open questions and reviewed recommendations so the build-up remains transparent.
Governance
Quality needs roles, reviews and versions.
Each publication should show traceably who reviewed it and which data basis was used.
Roles
Each perspective has a clear contribution.
To ensure that results are reliable, OSC separates technical requirements, technical implementation, organizational decision and legal review. Roles are made visible before a work status is described as a recommendation.
Clarify requirements and terms
Experts describe use cases, skill terms, evidence and quality questions from practice.
Check data and interfaces
Technical teams test models, export profiles and API assumptions with understandable examples.
Decide priorities
Members prioritize working groups, pilot needs and release steps according to documented criteria.
Keep boundaries visible
Review, data protection, accessibility and legal classification remain designated as separate test steps.
How it works
From requirements to verified work status.
OSC does not work with ready-made statements, but with comprehensible interim results. Professional, technical and legal perspectives are recorded separately, examined together and only published after review.
- 01Clarify needs and limits
- 02Define roles and test questions
- 03Pilot artifact with sample data
- 04Document review and release
Governance
Clear phases for contributions and decisions.
Governance separates orientation, development, piloting and publication. In this way, responsibilities, open points and the boundaries of a work status remain traceable.
Orientation
Those involved describe needs, roles, existing data and prioritized use cases.
Working groups
Specialist groups develop minimum requirements, reference processes and test criteria.
Piloting
Selected use cases are implemented and documented with example data.
Publication
Tested results are incorporated into versioned work statuses, interface notes and recommendations.
Legal classification
Legal review is part of the work status.
Institutional structure, conditions of participation and public statements are checked before publication. Openness, data protection and accessibility remain separately mentioned.