Re: BA and Credentials/Badging Vocabulary

On 20 October 2014 16:39, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:

> There is an draft Agenda item for the Credentials CG at the upcoming W3C
> TPAC meeting titled "Credentials Vocabulary (led by Badge Alliance?)".
> There is also one for "Merge technical work - Open Badges and Identity
> Credentials".
>
> The general idea here is to try and work toward the Badge Alliance's
> specs where it makes sense to do so. BA has been busy exploring if they
> can move toward JSON-LD[1], and it became clear to the folks at Digital
> Bazaar and Accreditrust that it wouldn't be productive to create yet
> another vocabulary that does more-or-less what the BA specs do wrt. the
> data that goes into a badge.
>
> Namely, the Assertion specification lays out the vocabulary necessary to
> do basic badging in the "Structures" section:
>
>
> https://github.com/openbadges/openbadges-specification/blob/master/Assertion/latest.md#structures
>

Sounds good, if the data reaches a certain quality I could reuse this work.

One example:

"identity": "sha256$c7ef86405ba71b85acd8e2e95166c4b111448089f2e1599f42fe1bba46e865c5"

It would be be more portable to use a URI here such as ni:///sha-256;




>
> We could convert the structures to a Linked Data vocabulary and a
> JSON-LD Context. For example, the human-readable vocabulary could be
> expressed like so (note the embedded RDFa in the page that is
> machine-readable):
>
> https://w3id.org/commerce
>
> The document could also be content-negotiated to other formats by
> machines to get something more machine-readable, like so:
>
> https://web-payments.org/vocabs/commerce.ttl
>
> The vocabulary could then be used in a JSON-LD context file, like so:
>
> https://w3id.org/openbadges/v1
>
> The general proposal is that the Credentials CG could create a first cut
> of these documents and then hand them over to the BA for further
> development, refinement, addition, etc. Or, the documents could be
> placed into the Credentials CG and pushed toward "official standard"
> status at W3C with BA being the primary maintainer/author of the documents.
>
> Doing this would be a first solid step toward merging the work that the
> BA is doing and the work that has been done in the Web Payments CG and
> Credentials CG. Creating a shared vocabulary will enable both
> communities to at least use a common language when describing
> badges/credentials. Using JSON-LD would be a step toward using a common
> syntax, and ensure that even if we just stop there, that the two
> ecosystems would be largely interoperable (with the only big differences
> being with how badges/credentials are digitally signed).
>
> -- manu
>
> [1]
>
> http://prezi.com/i50_fyhtstrk/json-ld-prototype/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
>
> --
> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: High-Stakes Credentials and Web Login
> http://manu.sporny.org/2014/identity-credentials/
>
>