Re: EOCred: Addressing requirements from use cases

On 10/01/18 17:40, Richard Wallis wrote:
>
> To my mind, a *Credential* could be described as the statement of a 
> set of criteria [academic and/or experience, attendance, 
> participation, validation, membership, etc.] that the awarder/assigner 
> asserts/agrees that the recipient of the Credential  has met.    As 
> such I don’t see it as being a *CreativeWork. *
>

I stick by what I said earlier: Credentials don't exist unless someone 
creates them. Someone has to design them, i.e. specify the competences 
or other eligibility criteria. Once a credential has been described, 
i.e. given a name, a description, and the bundle of eligibility criteria 
has been specified, then you have Creative Work, taking wikipedia's 
definition "a manifestation of creative effort".

One useful distinction is that between an 
EducationalOccupationalCredential which is offered by some 
credentialling organization, and the claim by an individual to have such 
a credential.  A well-established parallel for this is OpenBadges 
<https://openbadges.org/>, which have a Badge class 
<https://www.imsglobal.org/sites/default/files/Badges/OBv2p0/index.html#BadgeClass> 
and an Assertion 
<https://www.imsglobal.org/sites/default/files/Badges/OBv2p0/index.html#Assertion>. 
The Badge Class is "a collection of information about the accomplishment 
recognized by the Open Badge". Again, "a collection of information" 
sounds like a CreativeWork to me.

I would not want to mix up the information that is in things like a 
Badge Class with assertions that they have been met. This, incidently, 
one reason why I worry about modelling EOCredential as a subtype of 
credential: I am not sure if the existing practice and understanding of 
Credentials in Education and work place development matches that from 
other domains.
**
Phil

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