Individual¶
Generalization is Agent.
Superclass hierarchy
Definition¶
Person who may be associated with an act, a role, or another agent.
Examples¶
Analyst performing edits on data, interviewer conducting an interview, a creator.
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).
Subclasses¶
Properties
Name |
Description |
Data Type |
Multi- plicity |
---|---|---|---|
contactInformation
from Individual
|
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. |
0..1 |
|
ddiId
from Individual
|
Agency identifier of the individual expressed as filed with the DDI Agency ID registry [registry.ddialliance.org] with optional additional sub-agency extensions. |
:ref:`` |
0..* |
individualName
from Individual
|
Name of an individual broken out into its component parts of prefix, first/given name, middle name, last/family/surname, and suffix. |
0..* |
Inherited Properties
Name |
Description |
Data Type |
Multi- plicity |
---|---|---|---|
agency
from Identifiable
|
Agency expressed as filed with the DDI Agency ID registry [registry.ddialliance.org] with optional additional sub-agency extensions. |
:ref:`` |
1..1 |
id
from Identifiable
|
ID conforming to the allowed structure of the DDI Identifier and must be unique within the Agency. |
:ref:`` |
1..1 |
isPersistent
from Identifiable
|
Default value is false indicating that the content of the current version may change (may be in development mode). Set to true when the content of this version will no longer change. |
:ref:`` |
1..1 |
isUniversallyUnique
from Identifiable
|
Default value is false. If the id of the object was created as a Universally Unique ID (UUID) set to true. |
:ref:`` |
1..1 |
localId
from Identifiable
|
Locally used identifier unique with a specified context, such as a variable name within a dataset. |
0..* |
|
version
from Identifiable
|
Version number of the object. |
:ref:`` |
1..1 |
versionDate
from Identifiable
|
Date and time the object was changed expressed in standard ISO formats. |
0..1 |
|
versionRationale
from Identifiable
|
Reason for making a new version of the object. |
0..1 |
|
versionResponsibility
from Identifiable
|
Contributor who has the ownership and responsibility for the current version. |
:ref:`` |
0..1 |
agentId
from Agent
|
Identifier of an agent within a specified system. |
0..* |
|
image
from Agent
|
Information regarding image associated with the agent. |
0..* |
|
purpose
from Agent
|
Intent or reason for describing the agent. |
0..1 |