From database designer to knowledge engineer
13 of the 25 essential skills of a knowledge engineer are already essential for a database designer — about 52% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 13
- skills carry over
- 12
- would be new
- 52%
- of the target job covered
- 25
- essential skills of a knowledge engineer
What a knowledge engineer does
Knowledge engineers integrate structured knowledge into computer systems (knowledge bases) in order to solve complex problems normally requiring a high level of human expertise or artificial intelligence methods. They are also responsible for eliciting or extracting knowledge from information sources, maintaining this knowledge, and making it available to the organisation or users. To achieve this, they are aware of knowledge representation and maintenance techniques (rules, frames, semantic nets, ontologies) and use knowledge extraction techniques and tools. They can design and build expert or artificial intelligence systems that use this knowledge.
What carries over
13 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- analyse business requirements
- apply ICT systems theory
- assess ICT knowledge
- business process modelling
- database development tools
- define technical requirements
- information structure
- manage database
- resource description framework query language
- systems development life-cycle
- systems theory
- use markup languages
- web programming
What would be new
12 skillsEssential for a knowledge engineer and not for a database designer. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from database designer
2 roles- data warehouse designer25 skills in common
- ICT system architect11 skills in common
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a knowledge engineer?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.