What information do qualifications contain?

ORCID has a separate section in the ORCID record to record information about qualifications, accreditation, certificates and badges.

Each qualification item will always contain:

• The qualification title
• The provider’s Organisation ID (e.g. ROR ID)
• The date it was added to the ORCID record
• Who added the qualification (the source)

They may contain:

• The validity date, including an end date if the qualification expires
• The qualification persistent ID, identifying the type of qualification gained.
• The qualification URL, which contains human readable description of the type of qualification earned.
• The qualification persistent ID. This should link to an online version of the qualification certificate. This could be an existing unique ID or simply a URI.