CWA 16655-1:2013

The InLOC Information Model is intended to facilitate linking and sharing LOC information across a wide range of related ICT systems, such as: university student information systems; recruitment systems; appraisal systems; e-portfolio and related systems used by individuals to manage their CVs or professional profiles; systems supporting the development of competence, whether owned by the individual, their company, or some third party; social networks with LOC information, whether private ones operated by educational institutions or businesses, or public ones open to all on the Internet. InLOC is designed just for the representation of the definitions and structures of learning outcome, competence, and similar concepts, not for the representation of information about individuals, about assessment of individuals, about the actual attainment of learning outcomes by individuals, or about the possession of skill or competence by individuals. InLOC only deals with a way to represent and structure information about learning outcomes and competence, and does not set out any specific learning outcome or competence definitions or structures for any application area. It provides a common format in which those definitions and structures may be represented, so that ICT systems can handle the information in standardised ways, more efficiently and effectively than would otherwise be possible.