Re: EOCred: CreativeWork? and reporting back to schema.org

That looks good to me!

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:24 AM, Phil Barker <phil.barker@pjjk.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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