Agent

Class is abstract. Generalization is AnnotatedIdentifiable.

Superclass hierarchy

Definition

Actor that performs a role in relation to a process or product.

Examples

Analyst performing edits on data, interviewer conducting an interview, a relational database management system managing data, organization publishing data on a regular basis, creator or contributor of a publication.

Explanatory notes

foaf:Agent is: An agent (eg. person, group, software or physical artifact) prov:Agent is An agent is something that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place, for the existence of an entity, or for another agent’s activity.


Subclasses


Properties

Name

Description

Data Type

Multi- plicity

agentId
from Agent

Identifier of an agent within a specified system.

AgentId

0..*

image
from Agent

Information regarding image associated with the agent.

PrivateImage

0..*

purpose
from Agent

Intent or reason for describing the agent.

InternationalStructuredString

0..1

Inherited Properties

Name

Description

Data Type

Multi- plicity

agency

Agency expressed as filed with the DDI Agency ID registry [registry.ddialliance.org] with optional additional sub-agency extensions.

:ref:``

1..1

id

ID conforming to the allowed structure of the DDI Identifier and must be unique within the Agency.

:ref:``

1..1

isPersistent

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

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

Locally used identifier unique with a specified context, such as a variable name within a dataset.

LocalIdFormat

0..*

version

Version number of the object.

:ref:``

1..1

versionDate

Date and time the object was changed expressed in standard ISO formats.

XSDdate

0..1

versionRationale

Reason for making a new version of the object.

RationaleDefinition

0..1

versionResponsibility

Contributor who has the ownership and responsibility for the current version.

:ref:``

0..1

Diagram

TBD

@startuml

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class Agent [[http://plantuml.com/link]] {
  ^flightNumber : Integer [0..1] [[[http://plantuml.com/link]]]
  departureTime : Date
}
abstract class Identification::AnnotatedIdentifiable
Identification::AnnotatedIdentifiable <|-- Agent
abstract class Identifiable
Identifiable <|-- Identification::AnnotatedIdentifiable
Agent "0..1" -> "0..*" Xtest : contains

@enduml

Class ‘Agent’ and neighbors