Re: Welcome to the W3C EOCred-schema WG

Greetings, I'm Stuart Sutton and I represent the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI) in this community group. I am a member of the Emeritus
Faculty of the Information School of the University of Washington. I served
as Managing Director of DCMI (2011-2017) and was the original co-chair,
along with Jon Mason, of DCMI's Education Community and helped shepherd
DCMI's educational extensions through DCMI processes (1999-2002). Under NSF
funding (2001-2011), I was PI on the work that developed the Achievement
Standards Network (ASN) RDF specification for the description of competency
frameworks. I am currently a metadata consultant to the Credential Engine,
and, like Phil, also serve on its Technical Advisory Committee. Also, like
Phil, I am a member of the DCMI/LRMI Task Group.

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 2:50 AM, Phil Barker <phil.barker@pjjk.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello, and welcome to the W3C Educational and Occupational Credentials in
> schema.org working group. This message concerns: chairing the group,
> introductions, getting started with the work, and spam.
>
> *chairing the group.*
>
> My name is Phil Barker, I proposed this working group, and I see someone
> has nominated me as chair. Thank you for that, I am very happy to take this
> role. This is an open group, so if at any time anyone else wants a
> different/additional chair there is a process for that. Just let your
> wishes be known to the group and we can come to a consensus or have a vote.
>
> *introductions*
>
> We don't all know each other, so it might be a good idea to send a short
> introduction about yourself and your interest in educational and
> occupational credentials.
>
> After spending the last 20yrs in educational technology and standards
> based in Higher Ed, I am an now an independent consultant in technology for
> learning and information systems for education. I have worked in metadata
> for many years, I am part of the DCMI LRMI <http://lrmi.dublincore.net/>
> task group which added educational terms to schema.org, and I chaired W3C schema
> course extend <https://www.w3.org/community/schema-course-extend/>
> community group that added terms to describe Courses. I am on the technical
> advisory group for the Credential Engine <http://credentialengine.org/>
> and, as point of disclosure, while I don't represent the Credential Engine
> in the community group, I am receiving funding from them in order to
> facilitate linking their work to schema.org.
>
> *getting started with the work*
>
> I suggest that we progress this work in much the same way as the W3C
> schema course extension community group worked. That is, to:
>
> - gather some outline use cases in order to scope what it is that we want
> to cover (just a few words will do, we're not building a system so we don't
> need a great deal of detail).
>
> - gather examples of sites that convey information relevant to these use
> cases. These will act as sanity checks on the type of information that is
> published on the web about educational and occupational credentials.
>
> - distil requirements from the use cases, checking that the examples show
> that what require can be provided.
>
> - discuss and come to a consensus on how these requirements can best be
> met with existing schema.org properties or, failing that, propose new
> properties to meet the requirements.
>
> At the end I hope the use cases and requirements, with a record of how the
> requirements can be met, will serve as a sort of how-to documentation for
> describing Ed & Oc credentials in schema.org.
>
> I think we can do much of this work using the W3C tools: this mail list
> and a wiki.
>
> You can see the initial discussions we've had at the Credential Engine and
> their outcomes on Github
> <https://github.com/CredentialEngine/CTDL2schema.org/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20>
> and Google docs
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nDHfk5WMGoxcsHi7ujjFwHecXjb_lTlE8va1At71_Zo/edit>
> .
>
> I think it would be useful to supplement the online working with a
> conference call when necessary, starting with one to discuss what I have
> outlined so far in this message. I will send a poll round to find a
> suitable time soon.
>
> *Spam*
>
> Some of you may have seem some spam that was posted to the community group
> blog. The person who sent it has been removed from the group, and so cannot
> post again. I have asked the W3C community group support team whether there
> is anything that can be done to stop it happening again.
>
> With best regards, Phil
>
>
> LRMI http://lrmi.dublincore.net/
>
> schema course extension https://www.w3.org/community/schema-course-extend/
>
> Credential Engine http://credentialengine.org/
> --
>
> Phil Barker <http://people.pjjk.net/phil>. http://people.pjjk.net/phil
> PJJK Limited: technology to enhance learning; information systems for
> education.
>
> PJJK Limited <https://www.pjjk.co.uk> is registered in Scotland as a
> private limited company, number SC569282.
>



-- 
Stuart A. Sutton, Metadata Consultant
Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
   Information School
Email: stuartasutton@gmail.com
Skype: sasutton