Re: EOCred: recognition of credential

For some extra context/flavor:

In Open Badges, we use the W3C Verifiable Credentials vocab/methodology to
enable 3rd parties to create Endorsements that describe their recognition
of a particular defined Credential. This is still early days, but in the
current version of the OB vocabulary, there is a property that allows
publishers to identify the "endorsements" that have been awarded to the
Credential (or to the Issuer, or to the awarded instance of the credential).

Because each endorsement is separately verifiable, the publisher's word
doesn't need to be trusted when they describe organizations/individuals who
recognize the badge. This means that the relationship is actually between
the (Credential -> Endorsement -> Issuer of the Endorsement), not directly
(Credential -> Issuer of the Endorsement)

If we add in a recognizedBy feature in the vocabulary, it might be useful
to define use cases for how this data is published (who is publishing it,
where, and for what audience?) and when/why that published data should be
trusted by consumers. This might yield additional properties we might need
in order to support those use cases, or we might want to go the Open Badges
route of modeling the Endorsement of the credential itself as an
intermediate relationship.

Nate