schema:Certification


URI

https://schema.org/Certification

Label

Certification

Description

A Certification is an official and authoritative statement about a subject, for example a product, service, person, or organization. A certification is typically issued by an indendent certification body, for example a professional organization or government. It formally attests certain characteristics about the subject, for example Organizations can be ISO certified, Food products can be certified Organic or Vegan, a Person can be a certified professional, a Place can be certified for food processing. There are certifications for many domains: regulatory, organizational, recycling, food, efficiency, educational, ecological, etc. A certification is a form of credential, as are accreditations and licenses. Mapped from the [gs1:CertificationDetails](https://www.gs1.org/voc/CertificationDetails) class in the GS1 Web Vocabulary.

Usage

Instances of schema:Certification can have the following properties:

PROPERTYTYPEDESCRIPTIONRANGE

Implementation

@prefix fibo-fnd-arr-doc: <https://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/ontology/FND/Arrangements/Documents/> .
@prefix gs1: <https://ref.gs1.org/voc/> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix unece: <http://unece.org/vocab#> .

schema:Certification a rdfs:Class ;
    rdfs:label "Certification" ;
    rdfs:comment "A Certification is an official and authoritative statement about a subject, for example a product, service, person, or organization. A certification is typically issued by an indendent certification body, for example a professional organization or government. It formally attests certain characteristics about the subject, for example Organizations can be ISO certified, Food products can be certified Organic or Vegan, a Person can be a certified professional, a Place can be certified for food processing. There are certifications for many domains: regulatory, organizational, recycling, food, efficiency, educational, ecological, etc. A certification is a form of credential, as are accreditations and licenses. Mapped from the [gs1:CertificationDetails](https://www.gs1.org/voc/CertificationDetails) class in the GS1 Web Vocabulary." ;
    rdfs:subClassOf schema:CreativeWork,
        fibo-fnd-arr-doc:Certificate ;
    owl:equivalentClass unece:SpecifiedCertificate,
        gs1:CertificationDetails ;
    schema:source <https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/3230> .