Vocabulary and examples for expressing assertions about addressable things.

The LinkedClaim vocabulary enables linking to third party sources (possibly unsigned) or to other claims, using the digestMultibase field to verify that the linked object has not changed.

LinkedClaim Context file is published at http://cooperation.org/credentials/v1

demo-app is a small reference application in python for signing claims using didkit

examples contains simulated and actual real-world examples

• Product Review Product review scraped from existing site
• Self-Asserted Skill Worker asserting skills and receiving recommendations from colleagues
• Social Impact NGO recipients attesting to impact
• Worker Reputation Worker exporting their earned reputation from a gig site
• Real World Harm A real life example of a student activist disappeared in Myanmar, and the connected claim that POSCO still does business with the military junta, using a wikipedia URL to identify the junta in both claims.

This repo is normally mirrored at both https://github.com/Cooperation-org/LinkedClaims and https://codeberg.org/cooperation/LinkedClaims

The context and examples here came out of a draft paper at RWoT : Composable Credentials and from some design work at http://cooperation.org/linked_trust