authority
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: FunctionalProperty
type: ObjectProperty
comment: This property specifies who (or what) is doing the certifying.
domain: Certification
range: Agent
inverse of: certifies
note: The issuing authority can, once again, be a person, business, institution, or any other kind of agent.
type: Property
range: Resource
domain: Resource

proves
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: This property asserts that its subject is somehow proof of a given certification.
range: Certification
inverse of: proof
type: Property
range: Resource
domain: Resource

Certification
subclass of: Thing
subclass of: Resource
type: Class
example: The issuance of a government-regulated privilege, e.g. driver's license
example: An officially-recognized trade qualification, e.g. a welding ticket
example: An errors and omissions insurance policy
example: The issuance of an academic degree to a particular person
comment: 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.
example: A pet license, where the principal is an animal
example: The notarization of an affadavit
example: An award (e.g. 2014 Nobel Prize in physics)
example: A mandatory professional status, e.g. bar association membership
example: A private certification of achievement, e.g. CISSP

qualification
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: This property specifies what achievement, skill, or fact is being certified.
domain: Certification
note: 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.
type: Property
range: Resource
domain: Resource

proof
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: 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.
domain: Certification
inverse of: proves
note: The range of this term is left open, but should probably reference a document. It could even point to an actual cryptographic certificate.
type: Property
range: Resource
domain: Resource

certifies
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: InverseFunctionalProperty
type: ObjectProperty
comment: This property specifies that its subject, an agent, has issued a certification.
domain: Agent
range: Certification
inverse of: authority
type: Property
range: Resource
domain: Resource

has-certification
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: This property specifies that an agent possesses a given certification.
domain: Agent
range: Certification
inverse of: principal
type: Property
range: Resource
domain: Resource

principal
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: This property specifies who or what agent is being certified.
domain: Certification
range: Agent
inverse of: has-certification
note: The principal of the certification can be any agent, like a person, company, animal, AI, whatever.
type: Property
range: Resource
domain: Resource

An Agent Certification Ontology
comment: 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.
created: 2014-01-23T23:40:28Z
preferred namespace prefix: acrt
scope note: 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.
type: Ontology
creator: Dorian Taylor
editorial note: 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.
type: Webpage