Re: EOCred: Addressing requirements from use cases

Hello all,

I think it maybe helpful to know that the Credentials Community Group that is working on verifiable credentials is aiming to work on educational credentials (Open Badges) this year. 

More info on the community group: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/ <https://w3c-ccg.github.io/>

We are working on the proposal here: https://github.com/w3c-ccg/educational_verifiable_claims/blob/master/README.md <https://github.com/w3c-ccg/educational_verifiable_claims/blob/master/README.md>

One early suggestion is to include “occupational" in the naming of this work like we are in this group. I strongly suspect our use cases will be very similar and aligning the two community groups will be productive. 

As Phil notes, the eocred schema is similar to the intention of what is called the Badge Class and Issuer Profile in Open Badges. Yet, I would suggest that the CER is a far richer data set than the properties of the Badge Class/Issuer Profile. My opinion is that the two can co-exist within a verifiable credential with the assertion referencing either or both. 

Does considering this change the perspective on CreativeWork? 

My two cents: While I agree with Phil that credentials don’t exist unless someone creates them, designs them, etc… it also seems like an odd fit to include credentials with art, photographs, books, etc.... It doesn’t quite seem to fit as a “Creative”. Yet, since Course is considered a CreativeWork (which seems similarly odd to me), then somehow it does seem appropriate.  

Thanks,

Kerri


> On Jan 10, 2018, at 1:36 PM, Phil Barker <phil.barker@pjjk.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 10/01/18 17:40, Richard Wallis wrote:
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>> 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. 
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> 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". 
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> 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. 
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> 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.
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