Re: Welcome to the W3C EOCred-schema WG

Hello All,

I’m Ryan Price, I’m a Senior Engineer at Palantir.net (please note there’s a large IT company called Palantir, we are the other one). We work with many higher education institutions and professional associations, and we incorporate Schema.org into many of our projects. I started building web sites in the early 2000s and looked into ontologies and metadata back then, eventually started using Microformats and finally Schema.org for marking up data on pages. I recently worked on the redesign for Massachusetts’ government site, Mass.gov, and their open data portal and document repository, built on DKAN (which is a Drupal version of CKAN).

I’m not here in an official capacity from my employer, but I have participated in a number of open source communities, and I’m interested in following this development and seeing the process in action.

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Ryan Price
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> On Nov 10, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Hugh Paterson III <sil.linguist@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> My name is Hugh Paterson III... I'm based out of Eugene, OR and I work at SIL International https://www.sil.org <https://sil.org/> (based in Dallas, Tx). 
> 
> I am currently a UX analyst attached to SIL's Global Language Program Training unit https://www.sil.org/training <https://www.sil.org/training> . At GLPT we develop training materials, synchronize learning objectives across offered training, and evaluate training offered (functioning much like an accreditation agency). We focus mostly on subjects of linguistics and language development. We are contracted by and work with a variety of partners in the NGO world. We facilitate learning events ranging from workshops to formal learning events which are also accredited through Universities. We contract with institutions using SIL learning resources and SIL staff to train (often minority language users) how to do translation, create learning materials in their languages, and do linguistic and cultural analysis on their language(s)/communities.
> 
> Often SIL's HR teams use certificates from the completion of SIL courses to "certify" someone's eligibility to fill an SIL job role... but nearly 400 other NGOs are using these certificates as well. We are looking to expose this system more publicly as we realize that our social contribution is greater than just preparing people to work for our organization. Our hope is to align our competency usage with relevant training providers and OER resources. We realize that we might have some unique contributions, either in terms of competency definition or in terms of open badges, but we do not need to horde these or describe them in an independent manner. So for us a necessary step is to formally describe learning resources through LRMI, describe our courses, and then also related competencies. I get to stand on the shoulders of giants. There have been people in my organization working on producing competencies for 20 years, but some of this work hasn't had benefit for us because we don't have the whole descriptive picture in place - relating learning resources to learning objectives, learning events, and HR competencies.
> 
> I found out about this work because I have lurked on the LRMI list for a few years, and have worked with digital asset management.
> 
> I am looking forward to engaging with this group through the development process.
> 
> all the best,
> - Hugh Paterson III
> 
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Nate Otto <nate@ottonomy.net <mailto:nate@ottonomy.net>> wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm Nate Otto, director of Open Badges Projects at Concentric Sky in Eugene OR. I'm the lead author of the Open Badges Specification https://openbadgespec.org <https://openbadgespec.org/> within the IMS Global Open Badges Workgroup and former Interim Director of the Badge Alliance, which was this spec's former standards body. I'm currently in Redmond at IMS's quarterly meeting focusing on the early stage of an effort harmonizing IMS specifications crossing Credentials, Competency Frameworks, Transcripts and Program Completion/Competency Mastery Requirements ("Learning Pathways"). Open Badges is deeply rooted in the schema.org <http://schema.org/> vocabulary already and is a broadly used credentialing framework in production across dozens of companies and countries around the world with over 10 million verifiable badges issued. I worked with Credential Engine last year to ensure the CTDL had a good understanding of concepts in use among badge issuers.
> 
> Looking forward to contributing as this work spins up.
> 
> Nate Otto
> Director, Open Badges, Concentric Sky
> nate@ottonomy.net <mailto:nate@ottonomy.net> | notto@concentricsky.com <mailto:notto@concentricsky.com>