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| author | Merwe-Chartier, Eugene Andrie |
| author_facet | Merwe-Chartier, Eugene Andrie |
| contents | Traditional professional credentials have broken down as proxies for competence. This paper identifies a structural trust deficit in professional labour markets and proposes Cupel, an open framework specification for professional competence provenance. Cupel defines a taxonomy of trust signal types, a schema for representing and linking those signals, and an interoperability architecture that sits above existing standards including W3C Verifiable Credentials, C2PA, the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL), and Open Badges 3.0. The framework is released under AGPL-3.0, with trademark protection ensuring conformance integrity. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
| publisher | Zenodo |
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| spellingShingle | Cupel: A Framework for Professional Competence Provenance Merwe-Chartier, Eugene Andrie professional competence credentials verifiable credentials trust signals provenance open standards W3C C2PA Open Badges CTDL interoperability AI Traditional professional credentials have broken down as proxies for competence. This paper identifies a structural trust deficit in professional labour markets and proposes Cupel, an open framework specification for professional competence provenance. Cupel defines a taxonomy of trust signal types, a schema for representing and linking those signals, and an interoperability architecture that sits above existing standards including W3C Verifiable Credentials, C2PA, the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL), and Open Badges 3.0. The framework is released under AGPL-3.0, with trademark protection ensuring conformance integrity. |
| title | Cupel: A Framework for Professional Competence Provenance |
| topic | professional competence credentials verifiable credentials trust signals provenance open standards W3C C2PA Open Badges CTDL interoperability AI |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18976395 |