Legacy Burning Glass Taxonomies & Occupation Taxonomy Deprecation

As part of our effort to add clarity to the Lightcast taxonomies, we will be removing the ‘occupation’ taxonomy resource from the Classification API and removing all legacy Burning Glass taxonomies in favor of LOT from our APIs and Data Shares.

For information on transitioning to the new taxonomy resources, please refer to the details below.

API Migration Guide

occupation → lot
legacy_bgt_career_areas → lot
legacy_bgt_occupation_groups → lot
legacy_bgt_occupations → lot
legacy_bgt_specialized_occupations → lot

Data Share Migration Guide

OCC_CAREER_AREA_V3_4_0 → LOT_0_CAREER_AREA
OCC_GROUP_V3_4_0 → LOT_1_OCCUPATION_GROUP
OCC_V3_4_0 → LOT_2_OCCUPATION
SUB_OCC_V3_4_0 → LOT_3_SPECIALIZED_OCCUPATION

New versions of the Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy have already been populating within the lot resource name.

Please begin consuming these taxonomies by utilizing the go-forward taxonomy resources that utilizes the new naming structure.

Mappings from the legacy BG taxonomies to the Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy are available via the /mappings endpoint of the classification API at all levels of the taxonomies (specialized occupations → career areas)

Mapping Example:

https://classification.emsicloud.com/mappings?filter=sourceName:legacy_bgt_specialized_occupations

occupation example:

API requests to the current URI: https://classification.emsicloud.com/taxonomies/occupations/versions/6.1.2/concepts

Should now be directed to the URI: https://classification.emsicloud.com/taxonomies/lot/versions/6.1.5/concepts

Examples for BG taxonomies:

API requests to the current URI for career areas:

https://classification.emsicloud.com/taxonomies/legacy_bgt_career_areas/versions/3.4.2/concepts

Should now be directed to the URI: https://classification.emsicloud.com/taxonomies/lot/versions/6.1.3/concepts?filter=level:0

API requests to the current URI for occupation groups:

https://classification.emsicloud.com/taxonomies/legacy_bgt_occupation_groups/versions/3.4.2/concepts

Should now be directed to the URI: https://classification.emsicloud.com/taxonomies/lot/versions/6.1.3/concepts?filter=level:1