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 Model is available at <code>https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials</code>.
         </p>
 
+        <p>
+This specification restricts the usage of JSON-LD representations of
+the data model. JSON-LD <a
+href="https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/#compacted-document-form">compact document
+form</a> MUST be utilized for all representations of the data model in the
+base media type, `application/vc+ld+json`.
+        </p>
+
         <section>
           <h3>Syntactic Sugar</h3>