Seeking Advice with Verifiable Credential Context

Hello everyone,

I'm seeking advice on the proper way to specify a type for the subject in a
verifiable credential with the use of context.

My understanding was that typing a Verifiable Credential as follows:

"type": [
"VerifiableCredential",
"Employee"
]

and then defining a context like this:

{
"@context": {
"@version": 1.1,
"@protected": true,
"Employee": {
"@id": "https://example.com#Employee",
"@context": {
"name": "xsd:string"
}
}
}
}

followed by constructing the credential in this manner:

{
"type": [
"VerifiableCredential",
"Employee"
],
"@context": [
"https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1",
"https://example.com/employee.jsonld"
],
"credentialSubject": {
"id": "{{EMPLOYEE_DID_WEB}}",
"name": "Ashley"
}
//...
}

would establish the necessary context for the credential subject. However,
I encounter errors indicating that the "name" is not defined in the context.

I know that using:

"@vocab": "https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/issuer-dependent#"

acts as a universal solution for undefined terms, yet it compromises
validation during credential creation.

I'm also aware that defining terms "inline" like this:

{
"@context": [
{
"@version": 1.1
},
"https://www.w3.org/ns/odrl.jsonld",
{
"name": "xsd:string"
}
]
}

works but appears to go against the grain of JSON-LD's intent and disrupts
the link between the credentialSubject and 'Employee' definition.

Am I overlooking an aspect of this process?

Many Thanks,
Ashley

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