Re: Vocabulary for encoding licensing/qualifications

On 1/23/14 4:31 PM, dorian taylor wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having trouble finding an existing vocabulary for abstract
> certifications of (people, organizations).  I can find vocabs for
> cryptographic certificates, and some for academic degrees, but I'm
> looking to be able to represent things like business licenses and/or
> trade certifications (or even say a driver's license or fishing
> license).
>
> This is more or less the kind of thing what I want to encode:
>
> <c> a li:Certification;
>      li:jurisdiction <j>;
>      li:qualification <q>;
>      li:issuer <i>;
>      li:subject <s>;
>      li:proof <p> ;
>      dct:identifier "ABC12345";
>      dct:valid <v> .
>
> <j> a geo:SpatialThing . # (e.g.), the jurisdiction, either physical or virtual
> <q> a skos:Concept .    # whatever it is being licensed
> <i> a foaf:Agent .          # the issuing body
> <s> a foaf:Agent .         # the entity being licensed
> <p> a foaf:Document .   # some evidence (e.g. scan of a license or
> issuer confirmation)
> <v> a time:Interval .      # if/when the certification expires
>
> Any insights?
>
> Thanks,
>

If you've come up empty -- having searched LOV [1] -- I would encourage 
you to simply knock up your own vocabulary and the share it, as per 
usual :-)

[1] http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/ .

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Received on Thursday, 23 January 2014 23:02:22 UTC