Re: Meronymity

On 2024-04-21 1:40 pm, Adrian Gropper wrote:
> The concept is the point. Our work on VCs and DIDs has focused on privacy and ignored reputation. It's been hard to find practical uses for VCs as a result and that will not change until we get real about reputation, accountability and deduplication.

But even without those fully solved, it seems possible that the concept can be useful at the level of verifiable experience 'bits'. That is, the techxplore story says:

""meronyms," only give someone credibility if they are verified. So the researchers connected LiTweeture to Semantic Scholar, a web service which creates verified academic profiles for scholars detailing their education, affiliations, and publication history."

So it appears it's not soft reputation that is used. They can verify, say, if you are actually a third-year student in X discipline, or you published X articles in Y field, and so on.

And aren't those things within the current province of VCs and DIDs? -- Educational badges, etc.?

Steven Rowat