数字证书联盟 (DCC) 成立于 2018 年，是一个由 12 家高等教育机构组成的国际网络，致力于使用共享的开放式架构将学习记录数字化。随着大规模颁发数字证书的前景越来越大，创始成员认为他们的机构可以从更广泛的技术基础设施中受益，该基础设施允许以这种形式颁发和验证证书。该倡议的领导者有兴趣开发一套共享资源和工具来支持这一点，并确保以标准化的方式完成，以使记录数字化过程更高效，对学习者、雇主和高等教育机构更有用。他们成立了 DCC，目标是创建一个“可信、分布式和共享的基础架构，成为颁发、存储、显示和验证数字学历证书的标准”。

The Digital Credentials Consortium (DCC), founded in 2018, is an international network of 12 higher education institutions that works in the field of digitizing learning records using a shared, open architecture . As the prospect of issuing digital credentials en masse has grown, the founding members thought their institutions could benefit from a broader technological infrastructure that allowed for the issuing and verification of credentials in this form. The leaders of the initiative were interested in developing a set of shared resources and tools to support this and ensure that it was done in a standardized manner to make the process of digitizing records more efficient and useful for learners, employers, and higher education institutions. They formed the DCC, with the goal of creating a “trusted, distributed, and shared infrastructure that becomes the standard for issuing, storing, displaying, and verifying digital academic credentials.”