🟢 Certification Ontology
Maturity: 🟢 Released
IRI: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/certification/Certification/
RDF: Certification.rdf
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Contributor
Ali Hasanzadeh, Arizona State University
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Open Applications Group
Creator
IOF Supply Chain Working Group
License
http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
Publisher
Industrial Ontology Foundry
Title
Certification Ontology (CO)
Classes (7)
| Class | Definition |
|---|---|
| attesting agent | agent that has an attesting agent role |
| attesting agent role | agent role held by an agent acting on behalf of some certifying body when it participates in an attesting process |
| attesting process | planned process to determine the value of one or more qualities, capabilities, and/or process characteristics of an entity of inte… |
| certificate | information content entity that can serve as proof that one or more attesting processes took place to verify that one or more enti… |
| certificate granting process | planned process of granting a certificate for an entity of interest, preceded by the attestation of that entity |
| certifying body | organization that has a certifying body role |
| certifying body role | role held by an organization that participates in some certificate granting process |
Object Properties (4)
| Property | Definition |
|---|---|
| attests to | relationship from an attesting process to a certificate |
| certificate granted by | relationship from a certificate to a certifying body that holds when the certifying body issues the certificate as a specified out… |
| certifies | relationship from a certificate to an entity that holds when the certificate has been granted by a certifying body that has partic… |
| has certificate | relationship from an entity to a certificate that holds when the certificate has been granted by a certifying body that has partic… |