Re: Educational and Occupational Credentials in schema.org

+1 - Very needed work. I'm very interested and motivated to work on this as
part of the Credential Registry work I'm doing for the Credential Engine
community. We're working right now on semantic linking between competencies
and credentials, so this is very timely. Keep us all posted where we can
get involved!

Thanks as always Phil for moving us all forward..

Steve

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Joshua Marks <jmarks@curriki.org> wrote:

> +1! This intersection of competencies, competency assertions, badges and
> credentials is critically important to the evaluation and evolution of
> educational attainment and professional certification. Happy to help
> however I can.
>
> Joshua Marks
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 4:53 AM, Phil Barker <phil.barker@pjjk.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all, one important aspect of education that is not represented well
>> in schema.org is educational and occupational credentials, i.e.
>> diplomas, academic degrees, certifications, etc [Terms
>> <http://connectingcredentials.org/common-language-work-group-glossary/>].
>> These act as an important link between outcomes of educational courses,
>> people, and occupations / job roles. I have raised an issue on github with
>> the aim of addressing this gap in schema.org [issue#1779
>> <https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1779>]
>>
>> There has been a fair amount of work outside of schema.org on describing
>> these, notably by the CredentialEngine.org <http://credentialengine.org/>
>> [CTDL <http://credreg.net/ctdl/schema>],  ConnectingCredentials.org
>> <http://connectingcredentials.org/> and the Open Badges [BadgeAlliance
>> <https://www.badgealliance.org/>]. There is also work ongoing about how
>> to deal with wider Verifiable Claims [VCWG
>> <https://www.w3.org/2017/vc/WG/>] such as the claim by and individual to
>> have an academic degree. Also, there are many frameworks which describe
>> credentials in terms of the level and extent of the knowledge and
>> competencies they accredit.
>>
>> What that work has made clear is that there is some complexity in
>> describing educational and occupational credentials. While I don't expect
>> doing so in schema.org would require more than a few additional terms,
>> the relationship between these terms and things like verifiable claims,
>> competencies, course objectives etc, needs to be clear. I suspect we will
>> need a group such as a W3C Community Group to sort these out.
>>
>> I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this...
>>
>> Regards, Phil.
>>
>>
>> [issue#1779] https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1779
>>
>> [Terms] http://connectingcredentials.org/common-language-work-group-
>> glossary/
>>
>> [CTDL] http://credreg.net/ctdl/schema
>>
>> [BadgeAlliance] https://www.badgealliance.org/
>>     see also https://www.imsglobal.org/sites/default/files/Badges/OBv2p0/
>> index.html
>>
>> [VCWG] https://www.w3.org/2017/vc/WG/
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