Re: schema-course-extend: credential or award offered through course.

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A range of { Text, Thing } is a disservice

https://pending.schema.org/Credential

Thing > CreativeWork > Credential

- Issue:
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/195#issuecomment-227852385
- Src:
https://github.com/westurner/schemaorg/commit/1f268fc1d1e85b7ebd205d136745289a919c9a34

One could instead model the type of Credential as a property instead of a
subclass, but then it wouldn't be possible to define additional properties
for specific types of Credentials.



On Thursday, August 18, 2016, Richard Wallis <rjw@dataliberate.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> ~Richard
>
>
> > On 18 Aug 2016, at 14:18, Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all, one last call for feedback on this (sorry I left it hanging
> earlier in the summer, if you really have the time you can review the
> discussion at https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-schema-course-
> extend/2016Jun/0019.html )
> >
> > In short I propose:
> >
> > 1. that we provide a property of course which can be used to point to an
> educational credential that may be available to those who complete a course.
> >
> > 2. that the expected type for this property be Text or Thing until such
> time as a specific model for educational credentials be created
> >
> > 3.  that we do not attempt to model educational credentials as part of
> this work.
> >
> > It is on point 3 that I would most welcome feedback.
> >
> > See http://course.schema-course-extend.appspot.com/
> educationalCredentialAwarded for details
> >
> > Brief Rational: the ability to provide a name and a URI for and
> educational credential which may be obtained by successful completion of
> the course is enough fulfil the use case requirement of being able to find
> courses that offer some specific requirement; modelling educational
> credentials would divert us from completing what is necessary to fulfil the
> other use cases; and, educational credentials touch on many communities
> that are not well represented in this group.
> >
> > Comments / feedback / dissent?
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >> On 22/06/2016 11:20, Phil Barker wrote:
> >>
> >> I have drafted a description and a couple of examples based on the
> proposal below.
> >>
> >> See wiki
> >> https://www.w3.org/community/schema-course-extend/wiki/
> Identifying_the_qualification_offered
> >>
> >> and test course.schema site
> >>  http://course.schema-course-extend.appspot.com/Course
> >> http://course.schema-course-extend.appspot.com/
> educationalCredentialAwarded
> >>
> >> Any further comments/amendments?
> >>
> >> Phil
> >>
> >>> On 20/06/16 14:05, Phil Barker wrote:
> >>> OK. As property name I am going to suggest
> educationalCredentialAwarded because we might in the future want
> EducationalCredential as a class name.
> >>>
> >>> So, my proposal is that in order to meet the use case that people can
> search for courses that offers a qualification the searcher would like to
> acquire we create a new property
> >>>
> >>> educationalCredentialAwarded domain Course, range Text or Thing.
> >>> Definition: a description of the qualification, award, certificate,
> diploma or other educational credential awarded as a consequence of
> successful completion of this course.
> >>>
> >>> When the educational credentials/verifiable claims community have
> sorted out how they want to describe their domain in schema.org then I
> hope we will have some more specific schema type(s) that we can point to,
> but for now this seems to me to be good enough to solve the use case.
> Solving the bigger issue seems beyond the scope of this community group.
> >>>
> >>> Phil
> >
> > --
> > Phil Barker           @philbarker
> > LRMI, Cetis, ICBL     http://people.pjjk.net/phil
> > Heriot-Watt University
> >
> > Workflow: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~philb/workflow/
> >
> >
>
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