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An Agent Certification Ontology
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An Agent Certification Ontology

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URL: https://github.com/doriantaylor/owl-certification
Owner: doriantaylor
License: apache-2.0
Created: 2022-04-26T19:28:47.000Z (over 2 years ago)
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## An Agent Certification Ontology

Author
Dorian
Taylor

Created
January 23, 2014

Namespace URI

Preferred Namespace Prefix
acrt

This document specifies a vocabulary for asserting the existence of
official endorsements or certifications of *agents*, such as people and
organizations.

While there are plenty of linked data vocabularies for
expressing licensing rights on
intellectual property, as well as those for
cryptographic certificates, as *well* as
methods of referencing catalogues *of*
private and government certifications, *as **well*** as ways of
expressing the privileges of
certifications, there appears to be no other concise way to say
something like the following:

> I have been granted a passport, by the government of Canada, with the
> number XY123456, issued on October 16, 2010, which expires on October
> 16, 2015.

Here is the same assertion expressed in
Turtle using
the proposed vocabulary:

> a acrt:Certification;
> acrt:qualification ;
> acrt:authority ;
> acrt:principal ;
> # (never do this for real, at least for public consumption)
> acrt:proof ;
> dct:coverage ;
> dct:identifier "XY123456"^^xsd:string;
> dct:issued "2010-10-16"^^xsd:date;
> dct:valid "2015-10-16"^^xsd:date .

Note that this assertion says only in *informal* terms what the
certification is, and what it allows me to do. This vocabulary is
intended neither to describe the privileges granted by the
certification, nor to describe the artifact that embodies the
certification. It simply connects the subject of the certification to
the issuing authority and their official serial number of the account.

I chose a passport for the example because it is about as banal as a
certification gets: it merely certifies that I am who I say I am and
that I am a Canadian citizen. This vocabulary could be used equally for
drivers' licenses, business licenses, fishing licenses, dog licenses,
etc., as it is intended only to encode and store a hint that such
certification exists. It is also intended to be used for encoding
achievements, awards, academic degrees, and public and private training
certificates. It even could be used to convey information about
reputation points on social networks or services like
Mozilla Open Badges.

The purpose of this vocabulary is record-keeping and exchange, and
likewise is its application context. The actual vetting mechanisms of
the certifications in question are out of scope.

## Classes

At this time, there is only the single class,
[Certification](https://vocab.methodandstructure.com/certification#Certification).

#### Certification

This class represents the abstract notion of certification, of an agent,
by another agent, that the first agent possesses some property or set of
properties implied by the certification, potentially within some
spatiotemporal scope, and which may or may not be designated by some
identifier.

Examples:
- The issuance of a government-regulated privilege, e.g. driver's
license
- The issuance of an academic degree to a particular person
- An officially-recognized trade qualification, e.g. a welding ticket
- A mandatory professional status, e.g. bar association membership
- A private certification of achievement, e.g. CISSP
- An errors and omissions insurance policy
- A pet license, where the principal is an animal
- The notarization of an affadavit
- An award (e.g. 2014 Nobel Prize in physics)
- Anything that resembles some entity underwriting some attribute,
privilege, skill, achievement, or claim of some other entity.

## Properties

Many of the requirements of this vocabulary can be achieved with
Dublin Core terms.

- For the jurisdiction, use
dct:coverage
- For the license number, use
dct:identifier
- For the issue date, use
dct:issued
- For the expiry date, use
dct:valid

What follows are terms peculiar to certification itself.

#### qualification

This property specifies what achievement, skill, or fact is being
certified.

> The range of this term is left open, but should probably reference
> something abstract like a skos:Concept, an org:Role (itself a subclass
> of skos:Concept), or a skill, such as modeled by the Cognitive
> Characteristics Ontology.

Domain:
acrt:Certification