Based on the Qualifications metadata schema and ESCO data schema, extended with MicroHE: http://helium.ijs.si/microhe/escomc.html
The schema defines the following properties:
Defined by Owner property.
Usage Note: Refers to the owner of the qualification. The organization owning rights over the qualification. For example, an awarding body, a national or regional authority or an international organization.
Defined by Provenance Agent property.
Usage Note: Organisation primarily responsible for establishing defining and managing the qualification and its curricula. Sub-creator can be a natural person
Defined by Public key property.
Usage Note: Public Key the institution uses to identify itself and authenticate the credentials.
Defined by Accreditation property.
Usage Note: Information related to the accreditation, quality assurance and regulation of a qualification, such as the agent that was primarily responsible for the accreditation, the date the accreditation was formally approved, the review- and/or expiry date and additional information about the accreditation and used standards in the assessment and quality assurance of the qualification.
Defined by Homepage property.
Usage Note: The homepage (a public web document) of a qualification. There can be only one qualification that has a particular homepage.
Defined by Identifier property.
Usage Note: This property refers to an (alternative) identifier of a qualification like a national code or any other unique code issued by some agency and/or system. This can be on any level: an international, national, regional, private or institutional level (e.g. the unique and persistent identifier of the qualification within the publishing system). (See Identifying Resources and How to work with Identifiers?)
Defined by recipient property.
Usage Note: The exact and official title of the qualification, in a given language. This property can be repeated for parallel language versions of the title. There can be no more than one title per language. It is mandatory to mention the title at least in the reference language if specified. See Multilingual Aspects for more information..
Defined by Alternative label property.
Usage Note: An alternative name of the qualification (e.g. synonym, acronym).
Defined by Definition property.
Usage Note: Short and abstract description about the qualification. This property contains a free-text and can be repeated for parallel language versions of the definition. There can be no more than one definition per language. It is mandatory to mention the definition at least in the reference language if specified. See NodeLiteral and How to work with NodeLiterals?
Defined by Learning outcome description property - The full learning outcome description of the qualification.
Usage Note: This property contains a free-text and can be repeated for parallel language versions of the learning outcome description. There can be no more than one learning outcome description per language. It is mandatory to mention the description at least in the reference language if specified. See NodeLiteral and How to work with NodeLiterals?
Defined by Field property.
Usage note: This property relates the qualification to the ISCED. FoET 2013 classification code (Field of Education and Training Code). It indicates the thematic area of the qualification. See Controlled vocabularies to be used.
EQF level (URI: esco:hasAssociation, required, (non-applicable for qualifications which are not part of national qualifica- tions framework))
Defined by EQF level property.
Usage Note: This property relates the qualification to the level as specified by the European Qualification Framework. See AssociationObject.
Defined by NQF Level property.
Usage Note: This property relates the qualification to the National or Regional Qualification Framework level. See AssociationObject.
Defined by Number of Credit Points property.
Usage Note: This property contains the credit points assigned to the qualification, following the credit system outlined above.
Defined by ECTS credit points property.
Usage Note: This property contains the credit points assigned to the qualification, following in the ECTS credit system.
Defined by Volume of learning property.
Usage Note: This property contains an indication of how many hours of learning efforts are needed, i.e. notional learning hours.
Defined by Is partial qualification property.
Usage Note: Indicates whether a qualification is a full qualification or part of another qualification. In the latter, the qualification is only obtained as a formal outcome of a “broader” qualification of which it is part. The default value is ‘false’.
Defined by Ways to acquire property.
Usage Note: This property indicates whether the qualification can be acquired by validation of a formal, non-formal and/or informal learning processes. The different ways are encoded as skos:Concepts in a controlled vocabulary defined by the QMS (see Controlled vocabularies to be used).
Defined by Educational Credential Type property.
Usage Note: Provide the full name of the qualification type or credit system in use, such as ECTS, degrees etc.
Defined by Entry requirement property.
Usage Note: This property refers to an entry requirement of the qualification.
Defined by Expiry period property.
Usage Note: The validity period of a qualification.
Defined by Learning outcome property.
Usage Note: Expresses a learning outcome of the qualification as a relation to a skill, competence or knowledge from a known framework or standard classification. The recommended framework is ESCO. See AssociationObject Minimum 1 of each skill, competence, knowledge.
Defined by Related occupation property.
Usage Note: Relates the qualification to an occupation or occupational field from a known framework or standard classification. The recommended framework is ESCO. See AssociationObject.
Defined by Recognition property.
Usage Note: Information related to the formal recognition of a qualification, such as the country and/or region where the qualification was recognised and optionally the date of formal recognition.
Defined by Awarding body property.
Awarding activity (Required to specify the awarding body/ compe- tent authority and the Country/Region) (URI: esco:hasAssociation)
Defined by Awarding activity property.
Usage Note: Refers to an activity related to the awarding of the qualification, such as the country or region where the qualification is awarded, the awarding body and optionally the awarding period.
Defined by Awarding method property.
Usage Note: Is the qualification certified through: • undergoing the learning activity • an assessment of competence acquired
Defined by Grade scheme property.
Usage Note: Description of the grading scheme, and what the grade means.
Defined by Mode of Study property.
Usage Note: Online / Face to Face / Practice / Workplace / informal learning.
Defined by Assessment method property.
Usage Note: Description of the form of assessment.
Defined by Landing page property.
Usage Note: A web page that can be navigated to in a web browser to gain access to the qualification and/or additional information. A qualification might not have a homepage but instead a landing page.
Defined by Supplementary document property.
Usage Note: A public web document containing additional documentation about the qualification, such as a diploma or certificate supplement. It can be any document containing further information about the qualification. The document can be a web page that can be navigated or a downloadable file. See Document and How to work with Documents?
Defined by Credit / Token System property.
Usage Note: Name of the Credit system in use, such as ECTS etc. Relational to microHE:CreditSystem_type
Defined by Credit System Title property.
Usage Note: The exact and official title of the credential-type/credit-system if available.
Defined by Credit System Definition property.
Usage Note: Short and abstract description about the credential type/credential system
Defined by Credit System Value property.
Usage Note: Value described in terms of hours, certificates, accomplishments or other measure used for the token
Defined by Credit System Issuer property.
Usage Note: Which organization / consortium / law regulates who can issue this token.
Defined by Can consist of property.
Usage Note: Which other credential type/credit system can be used to build this credential type/credit system.
Defined by Credit System Reference Number property.
Usage Note: Reference number.
Defined by `Reference language property.
Usage Note: The ISO 639-1 code of the language (2-char language code) in which information about the qualification is published. This language will be used as the default reference language for the qualification.
Defined by Is made up of property.
Usage Note: Describes the (micro) qualifications which have been linked together to create the qualification.
Defined by Expiry period property.
Usage Note: The validity period of a qualification.
Defined by Holder's Name property.
Usage Note: Name of the person receiving the credential.
Defined by Date of birth property.
Usage Note: Date of birth of the person receiving the credential in day/month/year in format
Defined by Student ID property.
Usage Note: Student identification number or code or public key used to authenticate student.
Defined by Grade property.
Usage Note: Grade achieved.
Defined by Credits awarded property.
Usage Note: Number of credits awarded.
Defined by Sub-Credentials contained property.
Usage Note: Other credentials which may make up this credential, by Unique Identifer.
Defined by Unique Identifier property.
Usage Note: Automatically generated for each credential
Defined by Supplementary evidence property.
Usage Note: A public web document containing additional documentation about the credential awarded to the user, such as a diploma or certificate supplement, or a doctoral dissertation.
Defined by Credential property.
Usage Note: The credential which is being awarded to the student.
Defined by Expiry Period property.
Usage Note: Date on which the credential will expire.
Defined by Release/publication date property.
Usage Note: Date of formal publication. The date the qualification was published and the metadata about the qualification was made available.
Defined by Update/modification date property.
Usage Note: Date when the qualification was last updated since it was published.
Defined by Change note property.
Usage Note: A property to record information about fine grained changes of the qualification. This property contains a free-text and can be repeated for parallel language versions of the change note. See NodeLiteral and How to work with NodeLiterals?
Defined by History note property.
Usage Note: A property to record information about major lifecycle changes of the qualification (e.g. past state/use/meaning of a qualification). This property contains a free-text and can be repeated for parallel language versions of the history note. See NodeLiteral and How to work with NodeLiterals?
Defined by Additional note property.
Usage Note: A property to record any further information about a qualification. This property contains a free-text and can be repeated for parallel language versions of the additional note. See NodeLiteral and How to work with NodeLiterals?
Defined by Status property.
Usage Note: The publication status of a qualification, e.g. released, obsolete, ... It MUST take one of the predefined values as specified in the section Controlled vocabularies to be used.
Defined by Replaces property.
Usage Note: A related qualification that was replaced, displaced or superseded by this qualification. The learning outcomes of a qualification might change overtime and therefore result in another qualification replacing the old one
Defined by Replaced by property.
Usage Note: In case a qualification is deprecated, this property refers to the qualification that replaces, displaces or supersedes the first qualification.
Defined by Publisher property.
Usage Note: Refers to the agent responsible for making the information about the qualification available.