gvelez17
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2 months ago thanks Zach! I am hoping we could incorporate the key question - were there independent observers at that mine site, or not, and if so who were they, and make it easy to process a conformity credential and determine this in a human readable way
In the DRC the key question is access to the mine sites, for independent human observation, most of the big mining companies i believe are NOT giving access to observers.
The other question is if the mining companies are actually supporting the community as they have a legal requirement to, and who is certifying that.
From Golda - pilot lead of UNCRM Cobalt from Democratic Republic of Congo.
the main issue i had with the sensorElementList https://github.com/uncefact/spec-untp/blob/main/website/schema/traceabilityTransactionEvent.v0.3.0.JSONLDContext.jsonld#L47 in the spec, is that it really pushes towards automated sensors, and I don't think in some areas that is how it will work or is the key measure. Also sensors generally are going to produce a really high volume stream of data, so its more the summaries anyway that we probably will put in the passport.
I want to encourage people to use 3rd party auditors and observers as much as possible, in areas where human rights are an issue. sensors is more for carbon footprint i suppose.
I wonder if we could either replace it with or add a section of more generic
observation who/from what where when
who/from = source w hashref OR issuer & signature
we could use other fields, but to me the critical part is the observation, and the fact that it contains either its own signature or a source and hashref, which makes it easy to incorporate 3rd party data or sources
maybe this is an alternative to the sensorElementList ?