EOCred: CreativeWork? and reporting back to schema.org

Hello all,

as there hasn't been any objection to the idea that we defer most of the 
unaddressed use cases / issues, and because I think that the main 
schema.org community will want to have a say about 
EducationalOccupationalCredentials as a subtype of CreativeWork, I have 
posted a comment 
<https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1779#issuecomment-397327784> 
on the schema.org project issue tracker that relates to Educational and 
Occupational Credentials to the effect that we are nearly done and 
inviting comments on our proposed solution. That comment is here: 
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1779#issuecomment-397327784

On that point of EducationalOccupationalCredentials as a subtype of 
CreativeWork, I think the salient points are:

EducationalOccupationalCredentials are created, they can be copyrighted, 
that for me suggested strongly that they are CreativeWorks

Other people (I think) have other ideas about what is the defining 
feature of a CreativeWork. From the examples I suspect that was may be 
CreativeWork is meant for works of art and literary / scientific works.

There is clearly and affinity between educational occupational 
credentials and things like permits and other more general credentials

In addressing explicit use cases we have used two properties from 
CreativeWork (offers and inLanguage) and two from Permit (validFor and 
ValidIn).

There are many other properties of CreativeWork that could be applied to 
descriptions of Educational and Occupational Credentials; the most 
notable of these are creator, copyrightOwner, educationalAlignment.

Other groups looking at educational credentials have treated them as 
schema.org CreativeWorks either explicitly (CTDL:Credential 
<http://credreg.net/ctdl/terms#Credential>) or implicitly (Open Badges 
<https://www.imsglobal.org/sites/default/files/Badges/OBv2p0/index.html#BadgeClass>BadgeClass 
<https://www.imsglobal.org/sites/default/files/Badges/OBv2p0/index.html#BadgeClass> 
through use of alignment and the AligmentObject)

Does anyone have anything to add to that? or does anyone want to express 
a strong preference for EducationalOccupationalCredentials being one 
thing or another?

Regards, Phil
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