Thoughts About Assertion Workflows

This is a preliminary technical workflow proposal for assertions, which would be needed for badges, endorsements, and other ideas. It is based on thoughts that I had listening to the badges session at Indiewebcamp NYC 2018.

Scenario 1: Individual creates criteria and wants to assert that other individual has achieved said criteria. Example: Professor wants to certify students completed coursework.

  • Professor Posts Criteria for Each Achievement as a unique page (A).
  • Student completes assignment as a post (B).
  • Professor Posts Badge/Assertion/Endorsement post on their website as an h-review, with a p-item property to student’s URL (B). Would need a new or existing property to represent the relationship to the original assertion (A). Suggest u-assert and u-assert-of?j Can use u-in-reply-to possibly.

Scenario 2: Individual creates assertion post and solicits others to endorse that statement as factual.

  • Individual makes a post to their site(h-resume for references on a resume, not sure what to request endorsement of a statement? p-assert with a nested h-item?) and invites other individuals(using existing invitee property used for RSVPs?) to endorse or assert it. Criteria might be included for achievement.
  • Others create ‘assertion’ posts on their site(assert-of) and send webmentions, which would cause the post to be updated to note that it had been achieved.

Existing microformats for h-resume and h-review seem to allow additional context.

  • Education
  • Experience
  • Skill
  • Rating
  • Best
  • Worst

Brainstorming on the Indieweb wiki under assertion.

H-Card is a standard for publishing information about people and organizations online. I have done some work on creating H-Card tools for WordPress.

So, today, I’m going to take some opinions on this and crowdsource some input, since I’m at IndieWebCamp NYC. What belongs on my page in regards to details? Here are some examples.

  1. A better bio of me? I never know what to say about myself.
  2. More places to find me. I was thinking of joining Instagram and posting more photos.
  3. I have my resume up on the site somewhere, but that is different than a bio.

So, any ideas? I’m not good at self-promotion and I know I’m opening myself up by asking the web as a whole.

There have been times on this site where I have not posted something because it was too technical, or I haven’t distributed it to its normal locations because of the audience. So, I’ve arranged to contribute those topics and thoughts to another site, Gadget Wisdom.

So, when I want to talk about my latest tech obsession, and I do have a few, I’ll be doing it over there. Feel free to subscribe. The site already had it’s own Twitter, Facebook, and other feeds as well.

For those of you Indieweb-inclined…I made sure it supports webmentions and such, and will likely add more of that in the future.

IndieWebCamp NYC 2017 is happening this weekend, 9/30 and 10/1. I will be there on Sunday only, as I cannot be there the day before. Sunday is Hack and Create day. Hoping to help some people set up their websites if I can, and maybe improve my own.

Looking forward to seeing Tantek Çelik, who has been a fixture at every IndieWebCamp I have attended, and Marty McGuire, who I met at the last IndieWebCamp in NYC. The rest of the attendees I’m not as familiar with. Should be a fun day, following Yom Kippur, which is substantially less fun.

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