The Person Core Vocabulary provides a minimum set of classes and properties for
describing a natural person, i.e. the individual as opposed to any role they may play in
society or the relationships they have to other people, organisations and property;
all of which contribute significantly to the broader concept of identity. The vocabulary is
closely integrated with the Location and Business Core Vocabularies.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The Person Core Vocabulary Specification was developed under the European
Commission's
ISA Programme
. This is the namespace document, generated
from the associated RDF schema. Full documentation is provided in the
Person Core Vocabulary Specification
specification document itself. This includes background information,
use cases, the conceptual model and full definitions for all terms used.
Namespace
The URI for this vocabulary is
http://www.w3.org/ns/person#
When abbreviating terms the suggested prefix is
person
Each class or property in the vocabulary has a URI constructed by appending a term name to the vocabulary URI. For example:
http://www.w3.org/ns/person#Person
Vocabulary Terms at a Glance
Core Vocabularies (CVs) Combined UML Class Diagram
This section provides the formal definition of each class in the vocabulary.
Class
Person
Type of Term
Class
QName
person:Person
URI
http://www.w3.org/ns/person#Person
Subclass of
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person
Definition
An individual person who may be dead or alive,
but not imaginary. It is that restriction that makes person:Person a
sub class of both foaf:Person and schema:Person which both cover imaginary
characters as well as real people.
Class
Code
Type of Term
Class
QName
skos:Concept
URI
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept
Definition
The Conceptual Model includes a 'Code' datatype that
is used for the
gender
property. This is expressed using the
SKOS vocabulary
with
a particular 'code' usually being a skos:Concept that is part of a scheme.
The intention is that the skos:Concept class be used as follows;
for the content property, use skos:notation
the 'list' property will be taken care of by means of the skos:inScheme property;
the list agency property is likely to be applied to the scheme as a whole for which dcterms:creator is appropriate;
The ADMS class of Identifier fully represents the Person Core Vocabulary term of the same name
Usage Note
The Identifier class represents any identifier issued by any authority, whether a
government agency or not. It captures the identifier itself and details of the issuing authority,
the date on which the identifier was issued and so on.
The various conceptual properties can be fulfilled as follows:
use
skos:notation
to provide the actual identifier (the
Identifier class is effectively meaningless without this property and conceptually it is mandatory);
use
dcterms:type
to provide an identifier for the type of identifier issued;
use
dcterms:created
to provide the date on which the identifier was issued.
use
adms:schemeAgency
to provide the name of the agency that created the identifier (as an rdfs:Literal).
use
dcterms:creator
to link to a URI of an Agent class describing the issuing Agency;
Properties
Property
name
Type of Term
Property
QName
foaf:name
URI
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name
Definition
The foaf:name property fully represents the Person Core Vocabulary term of full name
Usage Note
The full name contains the complete name of a person
as one string. In addition to the content of given name, family name and, in some
systems, patronymic name, this can carry additional parts of a person's name
such as titles, middle names or suffixes like "the third" or names which are neither
a given nor a family name.
Property
given name
Type of Term
Property
QName
foaf:givenName
URI
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenName
Definition
The foaf:givenName property fully represents the Person Core Vocabulary term of given name
Usage Note
A given name, or multiple given names, are the denominator(s) that identify an individual
within a family. These are given to a person by his or her parents at birth or may be legally recognised
as 'given names' through a formal process. All given names are ordered in one field so that,
for example, the given name for Johan Sebastian Bach is 'Johan Sebastian.'
Property
family name
Type of Term
Property
QName
foaf:familyName
URI
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/familyName
Definition
The foaf:familyName property fully represents the Person Core Vocabulary term of family name
Usage Note
A family name is usually shared by members of a family. This attribute also carries prefixes or suffixes which are part of the Family Name, e.g. "de Boer", "van de Putte", "von und zu Orlow". Multiple family names, such as are commonly found in Hispanic countries, are recorded in the single Family Name field so that, for example, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Family Name would be recorded as "Cervantes Saavedra."
Property
patronymic name
Type of Term
Property
QName
person:patronymicName
URI
http://www.w3.org/ns/person#patronymicName
Definition
Patronymic names are important in some countries. Iceland
does not have a concept of family name in the way that many other European countries
do, for example. In Bulgaria and Russia, patronymic names are in every day usage,
for example, the "Sergeyevich" (?????????) in "Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev"
(?????? ????????? ????????).
Property
alternative name
Type of Term
Property
QName
dcterms:alternative
URI
http://purl.org/dc/terms/alternative
Definition
The dcterms:alternative property fully represents the Person Core Vocabulary property of alternative name.
Usage Note
It is not the role of the alternative name field to record nick names,
pet names or other 'familiar names' that will be of no consequence in public sector data exchange (foaf:nick would be appropriate for that).
Property
gender
Type of Term
Property
QName
schema:gender
URI
http://schema.org/gender
Definition
The schema:gender property fully represents the Person Core Vocabulary term of the same name.
Usage Note
The gender of an individual should be recorded using a controlled vocabulary
that is appropriate for the specific context. In some cases the chromosomal or physical state of an
individual will be more important than the gender that they express, in others the reverse will be true.
What is always important is that the controlled vocabulary used to describe an individual's gender
is stated explicitly. To do this use a skos:Concept as described in the
Code
class.
The
Person Core Vocabulary Specification
includes an example of such a SKOS concept scheme.
Property
birth name
Type of Term
Property
QName
person:birthName
URI
http://www.w3.org/ns/person#birthName
Definition
All data associated with an individual are subject to change. Names can change for
a variety of reasons, either formally or informally, and new information may come to light that means that
a correction or clarification can be made to an existing record. Birth names tend to be persistent
however and for this reason they are recorded by some public sector information systems. There is
no granularity for birth name - the full name should be recorded in a single field.
Property
date of birth
Type of Term
Property
QName
schema:birthDate
URI
http://schema.org/birthDate
Definition
The schema:birthDate property fully represents the Person Core Vocabulary term of date of birth
Usage Note
A date that specifies the birth date of a person. The date
should be provided as a literal and data typed if applicable.
Property
date of death
Type of Term
Property
QName
schema:deathDate
URI
http://schema.org/deathDate
Definition
The schema:deathDate property fully represents the Person Core Vocabulary term of date of death.
Usage Note
A date that specifies the death date of a person. The date should be
provided as a literal and data typed if applicable.
Property
place of birth
Type of Term
Property
QName
person:placeOfBirth
URI
http://www.w3.org/ns/person#placeOfBirth
Range
http://schema.org/Place
Range
http://purl.org/dc/terms/Location
Definition
The range of place of birth is dcterms:Location and schema:Place.
Property
place of death
Type of Term
Property
QName
person:placeOfDeath
URI
http://www.w3.org/ns/person#placeOfDeath
Range
http://schema.org/Place
Range
http://purl.org/dc/terms/Location
Definition
The range of place of death is dcterms:Location and schema:Place.
Property
country of birth
Type of Term
Property
QName
person:countryOfBirth
URI
http://www.w3.org/ns/person#countryOfBirth
Range
http://schema.org/Place
Range
http://purl.org/dc/terms/Location
Definition
The range of country of birth is dcterms:Location and schema:Place.
Property
country of death
Type of Term
Property
QName
person:countryOfDeath
URI
http://www.w3.org/ns/person#countryOfDeath
Range
http://schema.org/Place
Range
http://purl.org/dc/terms/Location
Definition
The range of country of death is dcterms:Location and schema:Place.
Property
citizenship
Type of Term
Property
QName
person:citizenship
URI
http://www.w3.org/ns/person#citizenship
Range
http://purl.org/dc/terms/Jurisdiction
Definition
The range of citizenship is dcterms:Jurisdiction.
Property
residency
Type of Term
Property
QName
person:residency
URI
http://www.w3.org/ns/person#residency
Range
http://purl.org/dc/terms/Jurisdiction
Definition
The range of residency is dcterms:Jurisdiction.
Property
identifer
Type of Term
Property
QName
dcterms:identifier
URI
http://purl.org/dc/terms/identifier
Definition
dcterms:identifier fully represents the Core Vocabulary property of the same name
Usage Note
The identifier relation is used to link a person to any formally issued identifier for that person.
Property
identifies
Type of Term
Property
QName
adms:identifies
URI
http://www.w3.org/ns/adms#identifies
Definition
adms:identifies fully represents the Core Vocabulary property of the same name
Usage Note
The identifies relation is used to link an adms:Identifier class to whatever resource it identifies (such as a business or a person).
Conformance Statement
A conformant implementation of this vocabulary MUST understand all vocabulary terms defined in this document.
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