Verifiable credentials — vocabularies, context files, schemas

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This is a collection of vocabularies, context files, and schemas for Verifiable Credentials.

Entries for the Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0

Official JSON-LD Context file (version 2):

Canonical URL: https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/v2
Available at: https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdm/context/v2.jsonld

Vocabulary specification (version 2):

Canonical URL: https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/
Available at:
- https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdm/vocab/v2/vocabulary.html (in HTML/RDFa)
- https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdm/vocab/v2/vocabulary.ttl (in Turtle),
- https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdm/vocab/v2/vocabulary.jsonld (in JSON-LD)
Context negotiation is set up, defaulting to HTML/RDFa.

JSON-LD Context file for examples (version 2):

Canonical URL: https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/examples/v2
Available at: https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdm/examples/context/v2.jsonld

Vocabulary file for examples (version 2):

Canonical URL: https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/examples#
Available at: https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdm/examples/vocab/v2/vocabulary.html

JSON-LD Context file for undefined terms (version 2):

Canonical URL: https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/undefined-terms/v2
Available at: https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdm/undefined-terms/context/v2.jsonld

Vocabulary file for undefined terms (version 2):

Canonical URL: https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/undefined-terms#
Available at: https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdm/undefined-terms/vocab/v2/vocabulary.html

Entries for the Verifiable Credentials JSON Schema Specification

Official JSON Schema (version 2):

Canonical URL: https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/json-schema/v2.json or https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/json-schema/v2
Available at: https://www.w3.org/2022/credentials/v2/json-schema-credential-schema.json

Entries for the Verifiable Credential Data Integrity 1.0

Official JSON-LD Context file (version 2):

Canonical URL: https://w3id.org/security/data-integrity/v2
Available at: https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdi/context/v2.jsonld

Vocabulary specification (version 2):

Canonical URL: https://w3id.org/security#.
Available at:
- https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdi/vocab/v2/vocabulary.html (in HTML/RDFa)
- https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdi/vocab/v2/vocabulary.ttl (in Turtle),
- https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdi/vocab/v2/vocabulary.jsonld (in JSON-LD)
Context negotiation is set up, defaulting to HTML/RDFa.

Official JSON-LD Context file for Multikey (version 1)

Canonical URL: https://w3id.org/security/multikey/v1.
Available at: https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdi/multikey/context/v1.jsonld

Official JSON-LD Context file for JWK (version 1)

Canonical URL: https://w3id.org/security/jwk/v1
Available at: https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/vcdi/jwk/context/v1.jsonld

Entries for the Bitstring Status List v1.0

Official JSON-LD Context file (version 1):

Canonical URL: https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/status/v1
Available at: https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/sl/context/v1.jsonld

Vocabulary specification (version 1):

Canonical URL: https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/status#.
Available at:
- https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/sl/vocab/v1/vocabulary.html (in HTML/RDFa)
- https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/sl/vocab/v1/vocabulary.ttl (in Turtle),
- https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/sl/vocab/v1/vocabulary.jsonld (in JSON-LD)
Context negotiation is set up, defaulting to HTML/RDFa.

Entries for the Controlled Identifiers v1.0

Official JSON-LD Context file (version 1):

Canonical URL: https://www.w3.org/ns/cid/v1.
Available at: https://www.w3.org/2025/credentials/cid/context/v1.jsonld.