Pretorius, MorneDlamini, Nelisiwe PMthethwa, Sthembile N2021-03-072021-03-072021-02Pretorius, M., Dlamini, N.P. & Mthethwa, S.N. 2021. Towards academic and skills credentialing standards and distributed ledger technologies. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11830 .978-989-758-491-6http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11830Today’s internet-connected world is moving towards evermore digitisation. Consequently, the education system globally is experiencing various problems whilst trying to keep up with this disruptive and ongoing change that is introduced. One way to alleviate the problem is standardising how skills and academic achievement are quantified, digitised, authenticated and persisted to achieve a means of automated verification and matching of the current need with what skill-sets are available. This research aims to provide a starting point towards a standardised future solution which considers existing emerging standards and technologies to provide skills tracking capability. The existing standards, data schema, technologies and techniques are discussed and an existing real-world prototype architecture is identified. This prototype’s terminology is then mapped to the emerging World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards which will serve as a baseline design.AbstractenBlock chainDistributed ledger technologyEducationSkillsStandardsStandardisationTrackingVerifiable credentialsConference PresentationPretorius, M., Dlamini, N. P., & Mthethwa, S. N. (2021). Towards academic and skills credentialing standards and distributed ledger technologies. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11830Pretorius, Morne, Nelisiwe P Dlamini, and Sthembile N Mthethwa. "Towards academic and skills credentialing standards and distributed ledger technologies." <i>7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP), Online Streaming, 11 - 13 February 2021</i> (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11830Pretorius M, Dlamini NP, Mthethwa SN, Towards academic and skills credentialing standards and distributed ledger technologies; 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11830 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Pretorius, Morne AU - Dlamini, Nelisiwe P AU - Mthethwa, Sthembile N AB - Today’s internet-connected world is moving towards evermore digitisation. Consequently, the education system globally is experiencing various problems whilst trying to keep up with this disruptive and ongoing change that is introduced. One way to alleviate the problem is standardising how skills and academic achievement are quantified, digitised, authenticated and persisted to achieve a means of automated verification and matching of the current need with what skill-sets are available. This research aims to provide a starting point towards a standardised future solution which considers existing emerging standards and technologies to provide skills tracking capability. The existing standards, data schema, technologies and techniques are discussed and an existing real-world prototype architecture is identified. This prototype’s terminology is then mapped to the emerging World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards which will serve as a baseline design. DA - 2021-02 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR J1 - 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP), Online Streaming, 11 - 13 February 2021 KW - Block chain KW - Distributed ledger technology KW - Education KW - Skills KW - Standards KW - Standardisation KW - Tracking KW - Verifiable credentials LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2021 SM - 978-989-758-491-6 T1 - Towards academic and skills credentialing standards and distributed ledger technologies TI - Towards academic and skills credentialing standards and distributed ledger technologies UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11830 ER -24050