Skill-based Scouting of Open Management Content Katja Niemann 1 , Uta Schwertel 2 , Alexander Mikroyannidis 3 , Marco Fisichella 4 , Martin Friedrich 1 , Michele Dicerto 5 , Philipp Holtkamp 6 , Marco Kalz 7 , Ricardo Kawase 4 , Elisabetta Parodi 5 , Jan Pawlowski 6 , Henri Pirkkalainen 6 , Vassilis Pitsilis 8 , Ares Vidalis 8 , Martin Wolpers 1 , Volker Zimmermann 2 1 Fraunhofer FIT, Schloß Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany 2 imc AG, Altenkesseler Strasse 17/D3, 66115 Saarbrücken, Germany 3 Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK 4 Leibniz Universität Hannover, L3S, Appelstr. 9a, 30167 Hannover, Germany 5 Giunti Labs S.r.l., via Portobello, Abbazia dell´Annunziata, 16039 Sestri Levante, Italy 6 University of Jyväskyla, Mattilanniemi 2, Agora Building, Jyväskylä, Finland 7 Open Universiteit Nederland / CELSTEC, Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT Heerlen, The Netherlands 8 Division of Applied Technologies - NCSR DEMOKRITOS, Patriarchou Gregoriou and Neapoleos str, 153 10 Aghia Paraskevi, Greece {katja.niemann, martin.friedrich, martin.wolpers}@fit.fraunhofer.de {uta.schwertel, volker.zimmermann}@im-c.de a.mikroyannidis@open.ac.uk {fisichella, kawase}@l3s.de {m.dicerto, e.parodi}@giuntilabs.com {philipp.holtkamp, jan.pawlowski, henri.j.pirkkalainen}@jyu.fi marco.kalz@ou.nl {avidal, vpitsilis}@dat.demokritos.gr Abstract. Already existing open educational resources in management have a high potential for enterprises to address the increasing training needs of their employees. However, access barriers still prevent the full exploitation of this potential. Users have to search a number of repositories with heterogeneous interfaces in order to retrieve the desired content. In addition, the use of search criteria related to skills, such as learning objectives and skill-levels is not generally supported. The demonstrator presented in this paper addresses these shortcomings by federating multiple repositories, integrating and enriching their metadata, and employing skill-based search for management related content. Keywords: open educational resources, content reuse, competences, federated search, management education