InformalOnt: An ontology to empower the informal sector workforce

The economic growth of a nation depends upon the workforce of both the formal and informal sector of the economy. The recruitment system used in the formal sector cannot be used in the informal sector as the latter does not have professional expertise or education that is required in job offers. Semantic Web technologies in the domain of online recruitment has substantially increased market transparency. Hence, we developed an ontology called ”InformalOnt” to represent the informal sector workforce, which sufficiently specifies the details of their skills, competence, education and personal information and the jobs that can be offered to them. InformalOnt has been evaluated based on standard metrics and on the domain coverage. These evaluations show how the proposed model surpasses existing ontologies in the domain of job recruitment for both formal and informal sector of the economy. Testing of our proposed model is done using several state of the art reasoners.