cert-schema 2.1.6

Blockchain certificates JSON-LD context and JSON schemas

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# cert-schema

Blockchain Certificate schemas extend those of [Open Badges](https://openbadgespec.org/). As with Open Badges, we've provided both a JSON-LD context and JSON schema. The purpose of the JSON-LD context is to map types to Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs), providing semantic context for data. The JSON Schema is used for syntactic validation.

This python package allows verification of a Blockchain Certificate against the JSON
schemas as a convenience. This is not the same as verifying the contents of a certificate against what is stored
on the blockchain. See the [cert-verifier-js](https://github.com/blockchain-certificates/cert-verifier-js) project.

* [Blockcerts JSON Schema](docs/schema-2.md)

## Example

The following is a Blockchain Certificate issued on the testnet Bitcoin network.

```json
{
"@context": [
"https://w3id.org/openbadges/v2",
"https://w3id.org/blockcerts/v2.1"
],
"type": "Assertion",
"id": "urn:uuid:bbba8553-8ec1-445f-82c9-a57251dd731c",
"badge": {
"id": "urn:uuid:82a4c9f2-3588-457b-80ea-da695571b8fc",
"type": "BadgeClass",
"name": "Certificate of Accomplishment",
"image": "data:image/png;base64,...",
"description": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, mei docendi concludaturque ad, cu nec partem graece. Est aperiam consetetur cu, expetenda moderatius neglegentur ei nam, suas dolor laudem eam an.",
"criteria": {
"narrative": "Nibh iriure ei nam, modo ridens neglegentur mel eu. At his cibo mucius."
},
"issuer": {
"id": "https://www.blockcerts.org/samples/2.0/issuer-testnet.json",
"type": "Profile",
"name": "University of Learning",
"url": "https://www.issuer.org",
"email": "[e-mail]",
"revocationList": "https://www.blockcerts.org/samples/2.0/revocation-list-testnet.json",
"image": "data:image/png;..."
}
},
"recipient": {
"hashed": false,
"identity": "[e-mail]",
"type": "email"
},
"recipientProfile": {
"type": [
"RecipientProfile",
"Extension"
],
"publicKey": "ecdsa-koblitz-pubkey:mtr98kany9G1XYNU74pRnfBQmaCg2FZLmc",
"name": "Eularia Landroth"
},
"issuedOn": "2017-06-29T14:58:57.461422+00:00",
"verification": {
"publicKey": "ecdsa-koblitz-pubkey:msBCHdwaQ7N2ypBYupkp6uNxtr9Pg76imj",
"type": [
"MerkleProofVerification2017",
"Extension"
]
},
"signature": {
"type": [
"MerkleProof2017",
"Extension"
],
"targetHash": "637ec732fa4b7b56f4c15a6a12680519a17a9e9eade09f5b424a48eb0e6f5ad0",
"merkleRoot": "f029b45bb1a7b1f0b970f6de35344b73cccd16177b4c037acbc2541c7fc27078",
"anchors": [
{
"sourceId": "d75b7a5bdb3d5244b753e6b84e987267cfa4ffa7a532a2ed49ad3848be1d82f8",
"type": "BTCOpReturn"
}
],
"proof": [
{
"right": "11174e220fe74de907d1107e2a357e41434123f2948fc6b946fbfd7e3e3eecd1"
}
]
}
}

```

## Open Badge Extensions

Details on [Blockcerts extensions to Open Badges](docs/open_badge_v2_extensions.md)

## Publishing package to pypi

- [First time info](http://peterdowns.com/posts/first-time-with-pypi.html)
- Publish script: `./release_package.sh`


## Unit tests

This project uses tox to validate against several python environments.

1. Ensure you have an python environment. [Recommendations](https://github.com/blockchain-certificates/developer-common-docs/blob/master/virtualenv.md)

2. Run tests
```
./run_tests.sh
```


## Compile markdown from schema

Note that json-schema-to-markdown doesn't handle ref schemas well, so you will
need to manually update any 'undefined' references.

`scripts/generate_markdown.js` builds the markdown-formatted schemas from json

## Contact

Contact us at [the Blockcerts community forum](http://community.blockcerts.org/).