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

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.

ContactInformation

0..1

ddiId

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

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0..*

individualName

Name of an individual broken out into its component parts of prefix, first/given name, middle name, last/family/surname, and suffix.

IndividualName

0..*

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.

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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

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

Diagram

TBD

@startuml

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

@enduml

Class ‘Agent’ and neighbors