Reference library

Resources and reference material.

FAQ, glossary, press items, and downloadable documents. A library for readers looking for specific answers — or for journalists and analysts writing about Oliu™.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Seventeen questions across four categories — general, for Canadians, for issuers, and technical. Expand the ones that apply.

Glossary

Key terms, plain language.

Accreditation: Oliu™'s documented review process that confirms a credentialing authority is who they say they are and has the authority to issue the credentials they plan to issue.
Credential: A digital record issued by a credentialing authority, confirming a qualification, licence, training completion, or other fact about the person it's issued to.
Credentialing authority: An organization that has the authority to issue credentials in its domain — a government regulator, professional body, industry association, or commercial training provider.
DID (Decentralized Identifier): A digital identifier for an issuer, holder, or verifier that can be confirmed without relying on a central authority to vouch for it.
DIACC Pan-Canadian Trust Framework: The Canadian framework for digital identity and trust services, developed by the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada. Defines standards and certification for how digital trust infrastructure should operate in Canadian jurisdiction.
did:web: The specific type of DID used by Oliu™. An issuer's DID resolves to a document published at a standard location under the issuer's own domain — so the issuer's identity is verifiable directly from their own public infrastructure.
Holder: The person a credential has been issued to. On Oliu™, holders are Canadians using the Oliu™ Wallet.
Issuer: An organization that issues credentials. On Oliu™, issuers are accredited credentialing authorities.
Registry (trust registry): Oliu™'s public trust layer. Holds the public keys of accredited issuers and the revocation status of credentials. Verifiers check against the registry; it does not store the content of credentials.
Schema: The structural definition of a specific credential type — the fields it contains, their types, validity periods, and conditions.
Selective disclosure: A feature of the W3C Verifiable Credentials standard, where a holder can share only specific fields of a credential rather than the whole credential.
Verifier: A person or organization confirming a credential is authentic. Verifiers use oliu.ca, partner systems, or their own device to scan QR codes from holders' wallets.
W3C Verifiable Credentials: The international open standard for digital credentials, developed and maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium.

Press & news

Items published about Oliu™ and the network.

Launch: Canada's open credential network opens to its founding cohort

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Oliu™, a Canadian federally incorporated joint venture between We Know Training and Credivera, is opening its DIACC PCTF certified platform to third-party issuers, inviting between five and eight credentialing authorities to join the founding cohort that will help form the Canadian Credential Trust Authority.

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Oliu™ opens founding-cohort expressions of interest

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The founding cohort of the Oliu™ network is now accepting expressions of interest from credentialing authorities — governments, regulators, professional bodies, industry associations, and commercial training providers — that want to participate in shaping the governance of Canadian credential infrastructure.

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Media contact: media@oliu.ca

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