Changes in 🟡 Certification Ontology

  • Maturity: 🟡 Provisional

New ontology in this release, review all classes: 🟡 Certification Ontology


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Classes

Construct Definition
AttestingAgent agent that has an attesting agent role.
AttestingAgentRole agent role held by an agent acting on behalf of some certifying body when it participates in an attesting process.
AttestingProcess planned process to determine the value of one or more qualities, capabilities, and/or process characteristics of an entity of interest in order to verify (by measuring the said attributes through some measurement process) that they satisfy some requirement specification prescribed by some standard.
Certificate information content entity that can serve as proof that one or more attesting processes took place to verify that one or more entities satisfy certain requirement specifications.
CertificateGrantingProcess planned process of granting a certificate for an entity of interest, preceded by the attestation of that entity.
CertifyingBody An organization that has a certifying body role.
CertifyingBodyRole role held by an organization that participates in some certificate granting process.

Object Properties

Construct Definition
attestsTo relationship from an attesting process to a certificate.
certificateGrantedBy relationship from a certificate to a certifying body that holds when the certifying body issues the certificate as a specified output of some certificate granting process.
certifies relationship from a certificate to an entity that holds when the certificate has been granted by a certifying body that has participated in a certificate granting process.
hasCertificate relationship from an entity to a certificate that holds when the certificate has been granted by a certifying body that has participated in a certificate granting process.

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