Turn your digital badges into verified, discoverable credentials.
The Credential Registry Badge Publisher is a user-friendly tool available through the Credential Registry Publishing System, built for organizations issuing Open Badges. It imports your badges’ details — name, description, earning criteria, and more — into the Credential Registry, automatically mapped to Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL), so learners and employers can see exactly what a badge means.
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If your organization issues digital badges, you already have a way to recognize skills, training, and achievement. The Badge Publisher takes that work further by representing your badges in the Credential Registry — the nation’s largest open, linked data source on credentials — so anyone encountering them knows exactly what they represent.
Credential Engine’s latest Counting Credentials report shows over 1 million badge credentials offered in the United States, a number that continues to grow as more learning is represented in digital credentials. Yet, many of these badges are undervalued simply because people don’t understand what they mean — publishing to the Credential Registry makes that meaning and value clear.
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WHY IT MATTERS
Trust travels with the badge — if the data does too.
Digital badges are only as valuable as the information behind them. When a badge is shared — through a digital backpack, a wallet, LinkedIn, or anywhere else — the person viewing it should be able to trust what it actually represents: what was required to earn it, who issued it, and how it connects to real skills and opportunities.
Badge Publisher makes that possible by mapping your badge data to CTDL and publishing it to the Credential Registry — a single, structured, publicly accessible source of truth for what your badges mean.
KEEPING YOUR DATA CURRENT
Publishing isn’t a one-time task.
Badges don’t stop moving once they’re earned. They get shared, added to profiles, and presented to employers and institutions long after they’re issued — which means the data behind them needs to stay just as current.
Publishing to the Credential Registry is an ongoing commitment to keeping your badge information fresh and accurate, so that as your programs evolve, anyone encountering your badges — wherever they’re shared — sees information that reflects your organization today, including a clear record of how a badge has changed over time.
Getting Started
Publishing takes minutes.
For organizations already using Parchment Digital Badges, Credly, or standard Open Badge JSON, getting your badges into the Credential Registry is quick and straightforward.
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Our team of experts is ready to help you embark your credential transparency journey. Whether you have questions about our technologies, services, or don’t know how to get started, we’re here to assist.