Background
AACRAO is the legitimate, longstanding source of information and advice on how to create and maintain trusted information systems and student records. The same policies and practices that have served well for over a century can be applied and modernized for the evolved learner information and data that digital credentials will deliver.
We are working to create a broad consensus on foundation principles and then build resources that empower institutions, vendors, and organizations to work in a shared understanding because establishing a shared language is a core capability for achieving trusted data.
Building a shared nomenclature is bringing together those responsible for defining essential business terms to clarify and be transparent about what we mean when we use those concepts. Aligning those business concepts to the actual data that represents them is how we get to a trusted, functional, student-serving system.