Badge

Note that depending on how they are used, badges may be confusing for users of screen readers and similar assistive technologies. While the styling of badges provides a visual cue as to their purpose, these users will simply be presented with the content of the badge. Depending on the specific situation, these badges may seem like random additional words or numbers at the end of a sentence, link, or button.

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Badge

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A badge is a device or accessory, often containing the insignia of an organization, which is presented or displayed to indicate some feat of service, a special accomplishment, a symbol of authority granted by taking an oath (e.g., police and fire), a sign of legitimate employment or student status, or as a simple means of identification. They are also used in advertising, publicity, and for branding purposes. Police badges date back to medieval times when knights wore a coat of arms representing their allegiances and loyalty.

Badges can be made from metal, plastic, leather, textile, rubber, etc., and they are commonly attached to clothing, bags, footwear, vehicles, home electrical equipment, etc. Textile badges or patches can be either woven or embroidered, and can be attached by gluing, ironing-on, sewing or applique.

In the military, badges are used to denote the unit or arm to which the wearer belongs, and also qualifications received through military training, rank, etc. Similarly, youth organizations such as scouting and guiding use them to show group membership, awards and rank.

From the livery badge, various badges of service evolved, worn by officials, soldiers and servants. In the British Army a metal (today often plastic) cap badge denoting the soldier's regiment became standard by the 17th century, as in most European armies (though not always navies). By the 19th century a badge was an almost invariable part of any uniform, including school uniforms, which in the UK usually still feature the school's badge in cloth on the breast pocket of the jacket or blazer.

One of the best-known badges is the typically star-shaped U.S. sheriff's badge, made famous in Westerns. The Chairman Mao badge is probably the most famous political badge. Members of fraternities and sororities often refer to the pins that signify their membership as badges.

Case badges are thick, about 3 mm (0.12 in) deep, 3-by-3-centimetre (1.2 in 1.2 in) lucite stickers that are often packaged with various computer parts, such as processors and video cards. Modern computer cases are frequently embellished with an indentation on the case's front panel to facilitate the affixing of a case badge.

Button badges are a highly collectible round badge with a plastic coating over a design or image. They often have a metal pin back or a safety pin style back. The most popular size is 25.4-millimetre (1.00 in) but the badges can range anywhere from this size right up to 120-millimetre (4.7 in) badges. This style of badge is used in political campaigning and often given as part of a birthday greeting such as a birthday card.

In the United States, the badges used by law enforcement, fire, and security guards are usually made of metal in various colors and finishes and are worn above the left chest pocket on the uniform shirt or jacket.Detectives and other plainclothes personnel may wear them on a belt holder, or on a chain around the neck. Shapes are manifold, with municipal police departments tending to have some variation of a shield shape, and sheriff's departments usually going with a 5, 6, or 7 point star shape. In most cases, an enameled seal of the organization, city, county, or company can be found in the center of the badge.

In computing, badges are used to demonstrate skills.[2] In education, digital badges are used as alternative forms of credentials, similar to those being used in the MacArthur Foundation's Badges for Lifelong Learning initiative.[3][4]

In Japan, lawyers are often issued lapel pin badges which serve as an identification tool in court, or during their normal course of work. Since lawyers are vested with special powers by law, such as the power to compel government agencies to provide information, these badges provide a quick way for lawyers to identify themselves as such.[5]

Open Badges is the world's leading format for digital badges. Open Badges is not a specific product or platform, but a type of digital badge that is verifiable, portable, and packed with information about skills and achievements.

This specification describes a method for packaging information about accomplishments, embedding it into portable image files as digital badges, and establishing resources for its validation. It includes term definitions for representations of data in Open Badges. These term definitions appear in the current JSON-LD context (v2.0) for the Open Badges Specification.

Open Badges are used by thousands of issuers around the world, and users of those badges speak many languages. Because Open Badges is a Linked Data vocabulary expressed in JSON-LD, there are some excellent features available to issuers and platforms to use Open Badges in their preferred language. See String internationalization in JSON-LD. Issuers can:

Additionally, developers who wish to write code in a language other than English can build a JSON-LD context file in their preferred language and then encounter badge property names familiar to them and their teams.

Assertions are representations of an awarded badge, used to share information about a badge belonging to one earner. Assertions are packaged for transmission as JSON objects with a set of mandatory and optional properties. Fields marked in bold letters are mandatory.

A note on required properties:When used to represent a recipient of badges, only id and type are required to enable pseudonymous usage. When used as a badge issuer, the following properties are required:

Cryptographically signed Assertions need to declare a verification type of SignedBadge within the JSON-LD. These badges are typically delivered as JSON Web Signatures (JWSs), so the signature value is outside the Assertion content, wrapping it. However, it may help to identify which publicKey is associated with the signature within the badge, so the creator field is available to be used in SignedBadges.

Descriptive metadata about evidence related to the issuance of an Assertion. Each instance of the Evidence class present in an Assertion corresponds to one entity, though a single entry can describe a set of items collectively. There may be multiple evidence entries referenced from an Assertion. The narrative property is also in scope of the Assertion class to provide an overall description of the achievement related to the badge in rich text. It is used here to provide a narrative of achievement of the specific entity described.

Descriptive metadata about the achievements necessary to be recognized with an Assertion of a particular BadgeClass. This data is added to the BadgeClass so that it may be rendered when that BadgeClass is displayed, instead of simply a link to human-readable criteria external to the badge. Embedding criteria allows either enhancement of an external criteria page or increased portability and ease of use by allowing issuers to skip hosting the formerly-required external criteria page altogether.

Criteria is used to allow would-be recipients to learn what is required of them to be recognized with an Assertion of a particular BadgeClass. It is also used after the Assertion is awarded to a recipient to let those inspecting earned badges know the general requirements that the recipients met in order to earn it.

On the surface Criteria is a very simple class, but it enables some powerful use cases, such as using a Markdown-formatted narrative to draw the connections between multiple elements in an alignment array. The open nature of the Open Badges vocabulary allows experimentation with extensions in Criteria as well, to let the market establish patterns for machine-readable criteria and automatic-awarding badge contracts.

In order to render displays of alignment within badge services, targetName is required. In order to accurately identify targets, targetUrl is required. In the event that targetUrl cannot be specific enough to identify the item, targetCode may be used to indicate specifically which item within the targetUrl is the alignment target.

The Revocation List is a document that describes Assertions or Endorsements that an Issuer has revoked that used the signed verification method. If you find the badge in the revokedAssertions list, it has been revoked.

Open Badges v1.1 implements an optional JSON-schema based mechanism of ensuring badge objects conform to syntactic requirements of the specification. JSON-schema can ensure that required properties exist and that expected data types are used. From the contexts for badge objects and extensions, a validation array may contain links to various JSON-schema against which badge objects may be tested. There are two proposed methods of specifying which component of a badge object should be matched against the JSON-schema validator: TypeValidation and FrameValidation. As of 1.1, only TypeValidation is implemented.

It is important that the value of the validatesType property be a valid JSON-LD type (an IRI), as that IRI appears when compacted into the Open Badges context, because validation matches this type value here against compacted values as they appear in an extension implementation. In order to correctly identify the extension within the badge object that includes it, an exact match here is expected.

The Endorsement Class is very similar to Assertion, except that there is no defined badge property. Instead, a claim property allows endorsers to make specific claims about other Profiles, BadgeClasses, or Assertions. 006ab0faaa