This type is part of the schema.org pending extension — under review for inclusion in the core vocabulary.
Definition
A Certification is an official and authoritative statement about a subject, for example a product, service, person, or organization. A certification is typically issued by an indendent certification body, for example a professional organization or government. It formally attests certain characteristics about the subject, for example Organizations can be ISO certified, Food products can be certified Organic or Vegan, a Person can be a certified professional, a Place can be certified for food processing. There are certifications for many domains: regulatory, organizational, recycling, food, efficiency, educational, ecological, etc. A certification is a form of credential, as are accreditations and licenses. Mapped from the gs1:CertificationDetails class in the GS1 Web Vocabulary.
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Graph Edges — Minted Entities Using This Type
As Boise Standard mints entities across the web, every domain that declares Certification in its schema graph stamps an edge back to this ledger corridor. This page grows over time as the graph accumulates verified provenance.