The Labor Exchange Skills Project, which was conducted under the sponsorship and direction of the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, was designed to develop a labor exchange skills database (ETA) that would improve the usability of many Department of Labor applications and products developed by other public and private organizations. The new database was based on a database of skill statements that had been developed by the state of Oregon and modified by other organizations. Three part-time occupational analysts and information technology professionals created procedures and edited, analyzed, processed, and organized approximately 4,440 statements, resulting in a usable database of more than 2,300 revised statements linked to multiple O*NET-SOC occupations. The project made a major contribution to the skills component of ETA's Rosetta Project by allowing taxonomic linkages to jobs, resumes, and courses. It also supported intra-ETA collaboration and provided a common linking language for the supply and demand sides of labor exchange. Plans were made to make the labor exchange skills database available to users and system developers, maintain the database's currency over time, develop applications using the data, and continue to improve the database through user feedback. (Example edit review and linkage review files are attached along with a list of linkage review procedures.) (MN)