Definition: Credential Artefact is a Business Object representing the semantic structure of a verifiable credential instance held within a citizen's wallet, including its claims, issuer reference and cryptographic proof Last modification: 2026-07-11 Identifier: http://data.europa.eu/dr8/CredentialArtefact LOST view: SV-Business Agnostic Data Models,SV-Functional Architecture Principles,Semantic view - Motivation,Semantic view EIRA concept: eira:ArchitectureBuildingBlock ABB name: eira:CredentialArtefact Synonym: Credential Data Object Example: A vaccination credential held in a wallet is modelled as a Credential Artefact Interoperability Saliency: Salient for technical interoperability because it standardises the semantic shape of any credential regardless of its encoding (SD-JWT, mDoc). Interoperability Dimension: Structural IoP Additional identifier: http://data.europa.eu/dr8/CredentialArtefact EIF Layer: Semantic