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Submitted by Nicole Kirgis on Tue, 05/27/2014 - 20:46

Package:

Agents

Extends:

Agent

Is Abstract:

Is Pattern:

Status:

Content review complete

Definition:

A person who may have a relationship to another Agent and who may be specified as being associated with an act.

Explanatory Notes:

A set of information describing an individual and means of unique identification and/or contact. Information may be repeated and provided effective date ranges to retain a history of the individual within a metadata record. Actions and relationships are specified by the use of the Individual as the target of a relationship (Creator) or within a collection of Agents in an AgentListing (employee of an Organization).

Example:

Analyst performing edits on data, interviewer conducting an interview, a creator.

Property:

Name	Cardinality	Datatype	Description
hasIndividualName	0..n	IndividualName	The name of an individual broken out into its component parts of prefix, first/given name, middle name, last/family/surname, and suffix.
ddiId	0..n	xs:string	The agency identifier of the individual according to the DDI Alliance agent registry.
hasContactInformation	0..1	ContactInformation	Contact information for the individual including location specification, address, URL, phone numbers, and other means of communication access. Sets of information can be repeated and date-stamped.