A versioned taxonomy specification.
Subject to evidence sufficiency, review, and publication authorization.
Research projectWIL-PROJ-TAX-001
Skilled Workforce Taxonomy
How should America’s skilled workforce be consistently classified across occupations, specialties, skills, credentials, industries, and labor-market data systems?
Open for contribution
Work in progress. This is a founding WIL research project, not a published finding. Its questions, methods, and expected outputs have not completed WIL editorial authorization and should not be cited as findings.
Objective
Develop a shared, versioned vocabulary for skilled-workforce research so roles, trades, credentials, and capability requirements can be compared across sources without implying false equivalence.
Why it matters
Workforce evidence arrives with incompatible occupational, employer, project, and training classifications. A governed taxonomy is needed before cross-source comparisons can be interpreted consistently.
Current work
- Defining the first classification scope and governance rules.
- Mapping source vocabularies while preserving provenance and unresolved identities.
- Documenting versioning, review, and change-control requirements.
Research approach
- Treat source classifications as evidence inputs, not interchangeable truth.
- Preserve source terms, mappings, uncertainty, and taxonomy versions.
- Release a method only for defined research uses after documented review.
Expected outputs
A source-to-taxonomy mapping protocol.
Subject to evidence sufficiency, review, and publication authorization.
A methodology note describing scope, limits, and revision history.
Subject to evidence sufficiency, review, and publication authorization.