Re: EOCred: Identify the level of a credential

Thanks for your comments Nate. Just a quick note now because it's 
getting to the end of Friday here...


On 16/02/18 17:39, Nate Otto wrote:
>
> Maybe I changed my mind on using alignment, particularly because 
> AlignmentObject already has the "alignmentType" property, which 
> includes "educationalLevel" as an option.

Let's not bring AlignmentObjects back in to the reckoning. The terms 
used for the alignmentType are essentially proxies for properties of the 
thing being described. You could think of educationalLevel as being a 
refinement of educationalAlignment, but done in a odd way as a property 
of the AlignmentObject. There has been a fair amount of discussion of 
this approach over the last couple of years, and I think there is a 
consensus that where possible it is better to have direct specific 
property - value relationships rather than using AlignmentObject to 
refine the meaning of a generic property.

In short, taking educationalLevel out of the alignmentType and making a 
property of the thing being described was deliberate.

Phil

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