Darrin Baines Identity Vocabulary

Metadata

IRI: https://darrinbaines.org/ns/identity
Title: Darrin Baines Identity Vocabulary
Creator: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9502-4678
Date Modified: 2026-07-27
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Preferred Namespace Prefix: db
Preferred Namespace Uri: db:
Description: Terms for describing a canonical web identity and its authority tier, extending W3C PROV-O for reified verification of that identity by external authorities.

IRI	`https://darrinbaines.org/ns/identity#CanonicalIdentityNode`
Is Defined By	Darrin Baines Identity Vocabulary
Description	A primary, authoritative web presence for an entity, with persistent identifiers and linked data. This is a web resource that is schema:about the entity, NOT the entity itself.

IRI	`https://darrinbaines.org/ns/identity#VerificationAssertion`
Is Defined By	Darrin Baines Identity Vocabulary
Description	A prov:Attribution specialised for identity verification: the record that an authority attests a person's identity, carrying by what method and at what level. The 'who' and 'when' are the standard prov:agent and prov:atTime, not reimplemented here.
Sub Class Of	Attribution ^c

IRI	`https://darrinbaines.org/ns/identity#verifiedIdentifier`
Is Defined By	Darrin Baines Identity Vocabulary
Description	The specific identifier record, for example the ORCID iD, that was checked in the verification. No PROV-O equivalent; this is domain-specific to identity verification.
Domain	Attribution ^c

IRI	`https://darrinbaines.org/ns/identity#validates`
Is Defined By	Darrin Baines Identity Vocabulary
Description	Links a person or authority to a body of knowledge (a defined term set, vocabulary or dataset) whose accuracy that person validates and signs off. The knowledge side records the same relation as dbn:validatedBy pointing back to that person.
Domain	schema:Person
Range	schema:CreativeWork

IRI	`https://darrinbaines.org/ns/identity#verificationMethod`
Is Defined By	Darrin Baines Identity Vocabulary
Description	How the verification was carried out, for example institutional-registration or library-authority-file. No PROV-O equivalent.
Domain	Attribution ^c
Range	xsd:string