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The class edm:Agent comprises people, either individually or in groups, who have the potential to perform intentional actions for which they can be held responsible.
Note: after the adoption of the rdaGr2 properties by EDM, the base domain/namespace for the rdaGr2 properties has been changed by the RDA governing bodies. The table below provides the mapping between the two namespaces.
Old rdaGr2 property used in EDM - New RDA property
In the new namespace each property has both a canonical numeric form (as shown below) and a human readable form such as rdau:placeOfBirth. These can all be seen at
http://www.rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/
Old rdaGr2 property used in EDM | New RDA property |
|---|
rdaGr2:biographicalInformation | rdau:P60492 |
rdaGr2:dateOfBirth | rdau:P60599 |
rdaGr2:dateOfDeath | rdau:P60598 |
rdaGr2:dateOfEstablishment | rdau:P60524 |
rdaGr2:dateOfTermination | rdau:P60525 |
rdaGr2:gender | rdau:P60531 |
rdaGr2:professionOrOccupation | rdau:P60468 |
rdaGr2:placeOfBirth | rdau:P60594 |
rdaGr2:placeOfDeath | rdau:P60592 |
edm:Agent
Properties for an Agent (edm:Agent)
Property | Description | Value
type | Cardinality |
skos:prefLabel | The preferred form of the name of the agent. Although the maximum number of occurrences is set at 1, it can be interpreted as 1 per language tag. At least one skos:prefLabel SHOULD be provided. Several prefLabels with languages tags are strongly recommended for language variants and translations. This is a recommended property for this class.
<skos:prefLabel xml:lang=''fr''>Courtois neveu aîné</skos:prefLabel>
<skos:prefLabel xml:lang=''en''>Courtois’eldest nephew</skos:prefLabel> For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal | 0...1 |
skos:altLabel | Alternative forms of the name of the agent. This is a recommended property for this class. <skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">Courtois</skos:altLabel>
<skos:altLabel xml:lang="fr">Augte. Courtois aîné</skos:altLabel> | literal | 0....n |
skos:note | A note about the agent e.g. biographical notes.
<skos:note> Courtois neveu aîné started a company of the same name manufacturing brass instruments in Paris in 1803</skos:note> | literal | 0....n |
dc:date | A significant date associated with the Agent. Europeana recommends date conforming to ISO 8601 starting with the year and with hyphens (YYYY-MMDD).
<dc:date>1803</dc:date/> | literal or ref | 0....n |
dc:identifier | An identifier of the agent.
<dc:identifier>http://viaf.org/viaf/96994048 </dc:identifier> | literal | 0....n |
dcterms:hasPart | Reference to an Agent that is part of the Agent being described (e.g. a part of a corporation).
<dcterms:hasPart rdf:resource=“http://identifier/partOfCorporation/”> | ref | 0....n |
dcterms:isPartOf | Reference to an agent that the described agent is part of.
<dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource=“http://identifier/parentCorporation/”> | ref | 0....n |
edm:begin | The date the agent was born/established. Europeana recommends date conforming to ISO 8601 starting with the year and with hyphens (YYYY-MMDD).
<edm:begin>1795</edm:begin> Generic "begin" and "end" properties are being used to indicate start date and end date generically for edm:Agent and edm:TimeSpan. For edm:Agent this can be interpreted and
birth and death dates. For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal | 0....1 |
edm:end | Generic "begin" and "end" properties are being used to indicate start date and end date generically for edm:Agent and edm:TimeSpan. For edm:Agent this can be interpreted and
birth and death dates. For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal | 0....1 |
edm:hasMet | Reference to another entity which the agent has “met” in a broad sense. For example a reference to a Place class
<edm:hasMet rdf:resource=“http://sws.geonames.org/6620265/”> | ref | 0....n |
| Reference to other entities, particularly other agents, with whom the agent is related in a generic sense.
<edm:isRelatedTo rdf:resource=“http://identifier/relatedAgent/”> | ref | 0....n |
foaf:name | The name of the agent as a simple textual string.
<foaf:name>Auguste Courtois</foaf:name> | literal | 0....n |
| Information pertaining to the life or history of the agent.
<rdaGr2:biographicalInformation>Courtois neveu aîné started a company of the same name manufacturing brass instruments in Paris in 1803</rdaGr2:biographicalInformation> | literal | 0....n |
rdaGr2:dateOfBirth | The date the agent (person) was born. Europeana recommends date conforming to ISO 8601 starting with the year and with hyphens (YYYY-MMDD). This is a recommended property for this class.
<rdaGr2:dateOfBirth>1795</rdaGr2:dateOfBirth> dates. For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal | 0....1 |
rdaGr2:dateOfDeath | The date the agent (person) died. Europeana recommends date conforming to ISO 8601 starting with the year and with hyphens (YYYY‐MMDD). This is a recommended property for this class.
<rdaGr2:dateOfDeath>1895</rdaGr2:dateOfDeath> For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal | 0....1 |
rdaGr2:dateOfEstablishment | The date on which the agent (corporate body) was established or founded.
<rdaGr2:dateOfEstablishment>1795</rdaGr2:dateOfEstablishment> | literal | 0....1 |
rdaGr2:dateOfTermination | The date on which the agent (corporate body) was terminated or dissolved.
<rdaGr2:dateOfTermination>1895</rdaGr2:dateOfTermination> | literal | 0....1 |
rdaGr2:gender | The gender with which the agent identifies.
< rdaGr2:gender>Female</rdaGr2:gender> | literal | 0....1 |
rdaGr2:placeOfBirth | The town, city, province, state, and/or country in which a person was born.
<rdaGr2:placeOfBirth>Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia</rdaGr2:placeOfBirth>
<rdaGr2:placeOfBirth rdf:resource=”http://sws.geonames.org/909137/”/> For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal or ref | 0....1 |
rdaGr2:placeOfDeath | The town, city, province, state, and/or country in which a person died.
<rdaGr2:placeOfDeath>London, United Kingdom</rdaGr2:placeOfDeath>
<rdaGr2:placeOfDeath rdf:resource=“http://sws.geonames.org/2635167/”/> For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal or ref | 0....1 |
rdaGr2:professionOrOccupation | The profession or occupation in which the agent works or has worked.
<rdaGr2:professionOrOccupation>Instrument Maker</rdaGr2:professionOrOccupation> | literal or ref | 0....n |
owl:sameAs | Another URI of the same agent.
<owl:sameAs rdf:resource=“http://www.identifier/sameResourceElsewhere”/> | ref | 0....n |
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