RE: Welcome to the W3C EOCred-schema WG

Hello, my name is Jason Tyszko and I serve as executive director of the Center for Education and Workforce at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.  I head up policy and initiatives related to postsecondary education and workforce development.  The Talent Pipeline Management initiative is part of my portfolio of work where we are organizing employer collaboratives across the country to better signal their workforce needs—particularly at the competency and credentialing level—and organize talent supply chain solutions in order to close the skills gap. As part of this initiative we are organizing a job registry service to create better structured and dynamic data around employer job profiles, including at the competency level. We are also organizing a series of meeting to explore interoperability opportunities and challenges for credentialing organization, learner records systems, and human resource information systems.  I also co-chair Credential Engine’s business advisory group.  Prior to my time at the Chamber I worked for state government in Illinois where I oversaw interagency career pathway initiatives.

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Phil Barker [mailto:phil.barker@pjjk.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2017 5:51 AM
To: public-eocred-schema@w3.org
Subject: Welcome to the W3C EOCred-schema WG


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/

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