Glossary
The words these pages use, and exactly what each one means.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Achievement | What was earned, in Nomi Academic: name, criteria, skills, level. The academic counterpart of a template. |
| Award | The act of giving an achievement to a person. Issues an ordinary credential backed by it. |
| Channel | A credential on one wallet — apple_wallet or google_wallet — with its own state. |
| Connector | Anything that puts people into the platform: CSV, SFTP, a scheduled pull, SCIM. |
| Credential | One credential held by one subject, with fields, a state and a history. |
| Distribution | One act of handing a credential over: a link, a QR code, an email, an NFC tag. |
| Idempotency key | A string you choose so that retrying a write replays the first response instead of doing it twice. |
| Organisation | The tenant. An API key belongs to one, and so does every record it can reach. |
| Policy | A rule that says which subjects hold a credential, evaluated on a schedule. |
| Public code | The short code on a public verification page and a certificate's QR. Safe to print. |
| Serial | The identifier on the pass itself, and what a barcode usually carries. |
| Subject | A person a credential is about, keyed by your own externalId. |
| Template | What a wallet credential says and looks like. Has versions; a published version is frozen. |
| did:web | The decentralised identifier an organisation is known by on an open network — what a verifier checks a signature against. |
| Status list | A W3C Bitstring Status List: how a downloaded credential proves it has not been revoked, without calling us. |