EOCred: name search for credentialing organization

Looking through the use cases 
<https://www.w3.org/community/eocred-schema/wiki/Use_Cases#Name_search_for_credentialing_organization> 
for Educational Occupational Credentials in schema.org, I see we have 
one for

>
>       Name search for credentialing organization
>
> It should be possible to search and find credentials by the name of 
> the credentialing organization.
>
>     *Requires:*ability to show relationship between educational /
>     occupational credential objects and descriptions or
>     representations of credentialling organization
>
Also,

>
>       Find credentialing organization[edit
>       <https://www.w3.org/community/eocred-schema/wiki/index.php?title=Use_Cases&action=edit&section=26>]
>
> Having identified a credential, it should be possible to find the 
> credentialing organization.
>
I think we have already solved these back when we discussed cost of a 
credential. We solved this in part by use of the the schema.org offers 
property and Offer type. As I think Richard pointed out at the time, the 
Offer type has a property 'offeredBy' so we can say:

{
   "@context": "http://schema.org/",
   "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
   "url" : "https://example.org/ecocred",
   "name": "Example",
   "offers": {
     "@type": "Offer",
     "offeredBy" : {
       "@type": "Organization",
       "name": "Example org",
       "url": "https://example.org/"
     }
   }
}

The Example credential is offered by Example.org.

Does anyone think this is not sufficient to meet the use case?

An alternative is to co-opt the issuedBy <http://schema.org/issuedBy> 
property from Permit <http://schema.org/Permit>. But one important 
aspect of our work here is that we are dealing /primarily/ with the 
offer of a Credential, not a claim that someone has earned one. That is, 
BadgeClass rather than Assertions if you appreciate a parallel with Open 
Badges. So offeredBy seems the better fit to me.

There is a note in the use cases that "there may be several different 
significant types of relationship between credentials and 
organizations". We have a separate use case for quality assurance that 
would cover accreditation, recognition etc., of the credentialing 
organization and which we can discuss later.

Regards, Phil


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