This property specifies that its subject, an agent, has issued a certification.
certifies
The issuance of a government-regulated privilege, e.g. driver's license
An officially-recognized trade qualification, e.g. a welding ticket
An errors and omissions insurance policy
The issuance of an academic degree to a particular person
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.
A pet license, where the principal is an animal
The notarization of an affadavit
An award (e.g. 2014 Nobel Prize in physics)
A mandatory professional status, e.g. bar association membership
A private certification of achievement, e.g. CISSP
Dorian Taylor
This property specifies who (or what) is doing the certifying.
authority
The issuing authority can, once again, be a person, business, institution, or any other kind of agent.
This property asserts that its subject is somehow proof of a given certification.
proves
This property specifies that an agent possesses a given certification.
has-certification
This property specifies who or what agent is being certified.
principal
The principal of the certification can be any agent, like a person, company, animal, AI, whatever.
This property specifies what achievement, skill, or fact is being certified.
qualification
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.
This document specifies a vocabulary for asserting the existence of official endorsements or certifications of <em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:acrt="http://privatealpha.com/ontology/certification/1#" xmlns:bibo="http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:skos="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#" xmlns:vann="http://purl.org/vocab/vann/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#">agents, such as people and organizations.
acrt
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.
An Agent Certification Ontology
Note that this assertion says only in <em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:acrt="http://privatealpha.com/ontology/certification/1#" xmlns:bibo="http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:skos="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#" xmlns:vann="http://purl.org/vocab/vann/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#">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.
This property points to some proof of the certification, like a scan of an official document or a page on the issuing authority's website that corroborates the certification.
proof
The range of this term is left open, but should probably reference a document. It could even point to an actual cryptographic certificate.