description: The mission of the Verifiable Claims Working Group (VCWG) is to make expressing and exchanging credentials that have been verified by a third party easier and more secure on the Web.
excerpt: The Working Group will maintain the Verifiable Credentials Data Model specification, which provides a mechanism to express a verifiable credential on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.
* [public-vc-wg@w3.org](mailto:public-vc-wg@w3.org?subject="Subscribe"): the group’s primary mailing list.
* [Mail Archives](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vc-wg/) - Technical discussion and public announcements for the Verifiable Claims Working Group
> The mission of the Verifiable Claims Working Group (VCWG) is to make expressing and exchanging credentials that have been verified by a third party easier and more secure on the Web.
* [Verifiable Credentials Working Group Charter](https://www.w3.org/2020/01/vc-wg-charter.html)
> The Working Group will maintain the Verifiable Credentials Data Model specification, which provides a mechanism to express a verifiable credential on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.
## Outputs
* [Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0](https://www.w3.org/TR/verifiable-claims-data-model/) and Representations specification.
* [Editors Draft](https://w3c.github.io/vc-data-model/) - Expressing verifiable information on the Web