profession
Let an agent handle professions by entry routes, regulation, registers, ethics and recognition of qualifications across borders.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Entry Becoming a professional.
Requirements
Qualifications.
Requirements
Entry requirements.
- What education and training does this profession require here? provenance
- Is a licence or registration required? provenance
Recognition
Foreign qualifications.
Recognition
Recognition.
- How can a foreign qualification be recognised? provenance
- Which authority decides? provenance
Regulation Oversight.
Register
Check registration.
Register
Registration check.
- Is this practitioner on the official register? provenance
- Are there conditions or sanctions? provenance
Title
Protected titles.
Title
Protected titles.
- Is this title protected by law? provenance
- Who may use it? provenance
Ethics Standards.
Code
Code of conduct.
Code
Code of conduct.
- What code of ethics applies to this profession? provenance
- Which body enforces it? provenance
Complaints
Concerns.
Complaints
Complaints.
- How can a concern about a professional be raised? action
- What happens next, in general terms? provenance
Careers Development.
CPD
Continuing development.
CPD
Continuing development.
- What continuing professional development is required? provenance
- How is it recorded? provenance
Market
Demand.
Market
Labour market.
- What do official statistics say about demand for this profession? provenance
- For which year? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
What it is Filled
An occupation requiring specialised education, training and often licensing, governed by professional bodies and codes of ethics, such as medicine, law, engineering, nursing, teaching and accountancy.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle professions by entry routes, regulation, registers, ethics and recognition of qualifications across borders.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Specialised training
- Regulated in many countries
- Codes of ethics
- Protected titles
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Present anyone as a licensed professional without verifying it.
- Give regulated professional advice, such as legal or medical, as if it were a licensed professional.
- Help someone practise a regulated profession without a licence.
- Publish complaints against a professional that have not been upheld.
Only with a human decision
- Reporting a professional to their regulator.
May
- Check a professional's licence or registration in the register it may query.
- Describe the training, ethics codes and duties of a profession, citing them.
Moral aspects Filled
- Professions hold trust and power over people's health, rights and safety.
- Access to professions has excluded people by class, gender and origin.
Who is affected
- Clients and patients
- Licensed professionals
- The wider public
Owners Filled
Steward
The professional body or regulator that licenses its members.
Master systems
- Professional registers of regulators
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q12737077 - registry parent class
related
- occupation - category
- professional body - regulator
- professional register - record
- EU Professional Qualifications Directive - law
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.profession
- Wikidata: Q28640 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28640)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Protected titles such as doctor or architect
- Registration numbers
- Occupation is the broader category
- Not physical; seen in titles, registers and credentials.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- find entry requirements for a profession
- check if a practitioner is registered
- understand recognition of foreign qualifications
- find professional bodies and complaint routes
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Unregistered practitioners
- Misuse of protected titles
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- EU Directive 2005/36/EC on professional qualifications
- National professional regulation law
Context of use required Filled
- Organising expert work under standards of competence and ethics.
- regulated professions
- health professions
- legal professions
- engineering professions
- teaching and education professions
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q28640: profession - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Profession - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each profession be a separate entry?
- How should registers be linked?
- How should cross-border recognition be modelled?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q28640/spec.json