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title: "Verifiable Credentials - Working Groups, Standards and Development"
name: VCs Development
layout: standards
headings: ["Verifiable Credentials Working Group","Credentials Community Group","Claims and Credentials Working Group","Varieties","Technology","User Experience"]
description: a standard way to express credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.
excerpt: >
  Verifiable credentials (VCs) are the electronic equivalent of the physical credentials that we all possess today, such as: plastic cards, passports, driving licenses, qualifications and awards, etc. The data model for verifiable credentials is a World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, "Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0 - Expressing verifiable information on the Web" published 19 November 2019.
tags: ["W3C","Verifiable Credentials","Credentials Community Group","VC-WG","JSON-LD","OAuth","FIDO","Claims and Credentials WG"]
categories: ["Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Identifiers"]
permalink: web-standards/w3c/verifiable-credentials/standards-and-development/
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last_modified_at: 2023-08-29
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