Merge pull request #58 from digitalcredentials/gwalsh311-patch-17

Update glossary-list.yml

Author: kayaelle

_data/glossary-list.yml

@@ -5,38 +5,44 @@ terms:
     definition: A statement in a credential about a person's achievement.
   - term: Competency Framework
     definition: A logically related set of competencies, knowledge, skills, abilities, or other attributes (KSAOs). When they are stored in computer-friendly formats, they can be easily used across systems.
+  - term: Badge
+    definition: A visual digital symbol of some kind of learning or accomplishment, often about achievement of a skill, competency, qualification, certificate, membership, or service.
   - term: Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR)
-    definition:
-    list:
-      - A standard format for issuing multiple achievements as a single credential. 
-      - A format defined by the standards organization 1EdTech for issuing multiple achievements as a single credential. The CLR standard version 2.0 can contain Open Badges (version 3.0) and other credentials including transcripts. 
-      - A credential issued in this format. Some wallets can now store CLRs in them. 
+    definition: An open data standard for packaging together multiple achievement credentials that cover a range of learning experiences, potentially from multiple sources, or a document in this format.  
   - term: Credential
-    definition: We use the World Wide Web Consortium's broad definition of credential to mean anything that describes something about a person or a thing, i.e. qualification, competency, or clearance. This includes someone's identity, license, diploma, work eligibility, badge, certification, etc. 
-  - term: Digital Wallet
-    definition: A digital credential wallet is an application that supports the storage and exchange of digital credentials that conform to a credential standard. Here we are focused on LER/VC compliant credentials. They have services for storing, viewing, and sharing credentials that include protecting them from being tampered with by cryptographic proofs. Many wallets also support self-authoring of credentials that can be signed by the wallet holder. Many wallets can store credentials in formats like CLR, VC, and Open Badges. 
+    definition: A set of claims made by an issuer. Examples of credentials include ID cards, licenses, diplomas, work eligibility claims, badges, and certifications. Credentials may be transmitted and processed as documentary evidence that a person has certain skills, status, or privileges.
+  - term: Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL)
+    definition: An open standard for describing information about credentials. It is used by a registry that stores public data about credentials which LERs can link to. 
+  - term: Digital Credential Wallet
+    definition: An application that supports the storage and exchange of digital credentials that conform to a credential standard. Here we are focused on LER/VC compliant credentials. They have services for storing, viewing, and sharing credentials that include protecting them from being tampered with by cryptographic proofs. Many wallets also support self-authoring of credentials that can be signed by the wallet holder. Many wallets can store credentials in formats like CLR, VC, and Open Badges. 
   - term: Evidence
-    definition: Any links, multimedia, work samples, assessment results, or other documentation provided with a credential that supports its credibility and value.
+    definition: Any artifacts such as multimedia, work samples, assessment results, or other documentation provided with a credential that supports its credibility and value.
   - term: Interoperability
     definition: The ability of different devices, software, or systems to successfully talk to each other. Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system to work with other products or systems.
   - term: Issuer
     definition: An organization or person who creates and digitally signs a credential.
+  - term: Learning and Employment Record (LER) 
+    definition: A Learning and Employment Record (LER) documents any achievement related to learning or work and may be used to qualify the learner or worker for hiring or advancement. Employment records, academic transcripts, professional licenses, micro-credentials, badges, and degrees are all examples of LERs.
   - term: Learning and Employment Record (LER) Issued as a Verifiable Credential (LER/VC)
-    definition: LERs are a category that describes a record or collection of records relevant to education, hiring, career advancement. The current best practice for LERs for the purpose of skills-based hiring and advancement is for LERs to meet a set of criteria that supports their usefulness for representing a person's achievements and qualifications interoperably (across different organizations' systems, including HR systems, education systems, and online profiles).</p><p>We recommend awarding credentials using the latest versions of CLR, Open Badges, or W3C Verifiable Credential (VC), which are all compatible with the Verifiable Credentials standard. We call these credentials LER/VCs. These credentials should be stored in digital storage systems (i.e., wallets, portfolios, backpacks etc.) and easily movable between them.
+    definition: Issuing a LER using the open data standard Verifiable Credentials enables them to be checked for fraud, easily transported, and better used to inform hiring and advancement decisions.
   - term: Micro-credential
     definition: While there is little agreement on the definition of a microcredential, one suggestion is&colon; "A microcredential is generally a subset of learning achievements or outcomes that is less than a full degree or certificate" (AACRAO, 2022).</p><p>Ideally they are stackable and demonstrate earning criteria. A microcredential can be awarded in various formats, like as a digital badge or paper certificate.
-  - term: Open Data Standard
-    definition: The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, provides a useful definition&colon; “Open Standards are standards made available to the general public and are developed (or approved) and maintained via a collaborative and consensus-driven process” (ITU, 2024).</p><p>This definition implies that open standards are not just available for anyone to read and implement, but the process of creating them is itself open to participation. In practice, the definition of open standard is widely interpreted. Some are designed by a small group of organizations in commercial consortia. Others are created using open processes that encourage broad participation. Some standards are voluntarily adopted, others are mandated by regulators. "A specification created by a single organization that is available for anyone to freely use and which has been broadly adopted might also be considered an open standard" (Open Data Institute, 2018).
   - term: Open Badges
-    definition: Digital badges which are awarded using the Open Badges standard.
+    definition: Badges issued using the Open Badges Specification are called Open Badges and are more interoperable than non-standardized badges.
+  - term: Open Data Standard
+    definition: A publication outlining expectations for the expression of certain data. The standard is made available to the general public, free to use, and is maintained via a collaborative consensus-driven process by stakeholders. 
+  - term: Skill 
+    definition: Used here as a versatile term encompassing competencies, learning outcomes, knowledge, skills, or abilities relevant to learning and work. 
+  - term: Skill Framework
+    definition: A skill/competency framework is a structured set of skills organized for a particular purpose, such as to express the range of skills relevant to occupations in a certain sector or organization. Frameworks may express relationships between individual skills.
   - term: Skills-based Hiring and Advancement (SBHA)
     definition: Skills-based Hiring and Advancement (SBHA) refers to a recruitment and career development approach focused on evaluating and promoting people based on their skills and competencies. It is a process by which employers and HR service providers identify, recruit, hire, and advance candidates informed by skills and competency data, helping to more effectively match candidates' skills and competencies with the skill and competency requirements of work or learning opportunities (USCCF, 2022). 
+  - term: Verifier
+    definition: An entity that performs verification of credentials.
   - term: Verification
-    definition: Automated procedures that check the digital signature or "seal" on a credential. These include a set of general checks (has the credential been signed by the issuer and not modified since signing), as well as business-logic checks that may include "is it expired?", "has it been revoked?", "does it conform to the expected format?" It is crucial to understand that verification checks the "seal" on the credential but does NOT imply evaluation of the truth of any statements within a credential.
+    definition: The set of procedures intended to confirm the authenticity, status, applicability, and/or conformance of a credential to expectations or requirements. This typically involves at least verifying the digital signature on a credential. 
   - term: Verifiable Credential
-    definition:
-    list:
-      - A credential that can be verified (see definition of verification). 
-      - When capitalized, the name of the data standard from the World Wide Web Consortium that guarantees a credential is tamper-evident, interoperable, and provides multiple options for disclosing all or selective parts of the credential contents, at the discretion of the credential holder.<p class="pt-2">Note that this standard specifies only the outer envelope of the credential, not the credential inside.</p>
+    definition: An open data standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that defines how to express a credential and attach a cryptographic verifiable proof.
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