[PROPOSED WORK ITEM] Citizenship Vocabulary

[msporny]

New Work Item Proposal

This specification describes a Linked Data vocabulary for asserting Verifiable Credentials related to citizenship information, such as given name, family name, country of citizenship, birthday, and other attributes used to determine the citizenship status of a citizen.

Include Link to Abstract or Draft

https://digitalbazaar.github.io/citizenship-vocab/

List Owners

• Lead - Manu Sporny, Digital Bazaar (@msporny)
• Owner - Dave Longley, Digital Bazaar (@dlongley)
• Owner - Mike Varley, Secure Key (@mavarley)

[peacekeeper]

We (Danube Tech) are also interested in contributing to this Work Item.

[lrosenthol]

Seems like a very useful vocabulary, but I would think that having a formal JSON Schema for the grammar instead of the text as currently proposed would be much more useful (both for humans and machines).

[wmclaxton]

NextID in Singapore is following this Work Item. It will be relevant to parallel efforts by Singapore government.

[kimdhamilton]

• Repo is initialized with boilerplate files here: https://github.com/w3c-ccg/citizenship-vocab
• Added to work item list