Academic Ontology to support the Bologna Mobility Process

The Bologna Declaration reflects a search for a common European answer to common European problems. European higher education systems are facing common internal and external challengers related to the growth and diversification of higher education and the shortage of skills in key areas. The Bologna Declaration requires the creation of transparent curricula for European qualifications and the creation of free student mobility. This paper proposes a common conceptual model supported by an academic ontology Bologna process (AOBP) to allow interoperability between academic management systems as well to promote automation of academic management. The AOBP is defined using a UML2 specific profile for this business. This domain ontology will permit semantics mappings between different ontology variations and database schemas that may be support really the Bologna mobility process.