credential issuer

• CURIE: gmeow:credentialIssuer
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/credentialIssuer
• Category: property
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/expertise
• Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

The organization that issued a credential. Functional per credential: one issuer is constitutive of the credential's identity (a different issuer is a different credential, even for the same subject matter).

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Credential -> gmeow:Organization; functional

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:credentialIssuer from gmeow:Credential to gmeow:Organization when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Skill Proficiency

• Source: slices/core/expertise/examples/skill-proficiency.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-expertise-examples-skill-proficiency

# --- A credential: an independent attestation OF the skill, by an issuer. A
#     verifiable credential references a gmeow:Attestation that signs it (the
#     expertise↔attestation seam): the credential is a CLAIM, the attestation
#     makes it checkable.
ex:cert a gmeow:Credential ;
    gmeow:credentialFor    ex:python ;
    gmeow:credentialIssuer ex:psf ;
    gmeow:hasAttestation   ex:certAttestation .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Credential, gmeow:Organization

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: ceterms, schema

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to name the single organization that issued a credential — the awarding body whose identity is constitutive of which credential this is.

Avoid when

• Avoid for the holder (gmeow:holdsCredential) or the certified subject matter (gmeow:credentialFor); and avoid two issuers — it is functional, so the same qualification from a different body is a different credential.

How to use

• Point the credential at one issuing gmeow:Organization; model a jointly-awarded qualification as separate credentials per issuer rather than asserting several issuers on one.

Examples

• ex:rnLicense gmeow:credentialIssuer ex:nursingBoard.