edm:Agent
The class edm:Agent comprises people, either individually or in groups, who had or have the potential to perform intentional actions.
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.
The recommended properties are marked in dark red.
The optional properties are left in black.
Please provide the properties in the record in the same order given in this document, the metadata validation performed by Europeana requires this order.
- 1 edm:Agent
- 1.1 skos:prefLabel
- 1.2 skos:altLabel
- 1.3 skos:note
- 1.4 dc:date
- 1.5 dc:identifier
- 1.6 dcterms:hasPart
- 1.7 dcterms:isPartOf
- 1.8 edm:begin
- 1.9 edm:end
- 1.10 edm:hasMet
- 1.11 edm:isRelatedTo
- 1.12 foaf:name
- 1.13 rdaGr2:biographicalInformation
- 1.14 rdaGr2:dateOfBirth
- 1.15 rdaGr2:dateOfDeath
- 1.16 rdaGr2:dateOfEstablishment
- 1.17 rdaGr2:dateOfTermination
- 1.18 rdaGr2:gender
- 1.19 rdaGr2:placeOfBirth
- 1.20 rdaGr2:placeOfDeath
- 1.21 rdaGr2:professionOrOccupation
- 1.22 owl:sameAs
edm:Agent
Property | Description | Value | 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. For recommendations on medata quality see https://europeana.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EF/pages/1969979393 , more specifically https://europeana.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EF/pages/1970044936 and https://europeana.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EF/pages/1967849520 | 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> | literal | 0....n |
skos:note | A note about the agent e.g. biographical notes. | 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-MM-DD). | literal or ref | 0....n |
dc:identifier | An identifier of the agent. | literal | 0....n |
dcterms:hasPart | Reference to an Agent that is part of the Agent being described (e.g. a part of a corporation). | ref | 0....n |
dcterms:isPartOf | Reference to an agent that the described agent is part of. | 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-MM-DD). 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 For recommendations on medata quality see , more specifically and | 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 For recommendations on medata quality see , more specifically and | 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 | ref | 0....n |
edm:isRelatedTo | Reference to other entities, particularly other agents, with whom the agent is related in a generic sense. | ref | 0....n |
foaf:name | The name of the agent as a simple textual string. | literal | 0....n |
rdaGr2:biographicalInformation | Information pertaining to the life or history of the agent. | 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-MM-DD). This is a recommended property for this class. dates. For recommendations on medata quality see , more specifically and | 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‐MM-DD). This is a recommended property for this class. For recommendations on medata quality see , more specifically and | literal | 0....1 |
rdaGr2:dateOfEstablishment | The date on which the agent (corporate body) was established or founded. | literal | 0....1 |
rdaGr2:dateOfTermination | The date on which the agent (corporate body) was terminated or dissolved. | literal | 0....1 |
rdaGr2:gender | The gender with which the agent identifies. | literal | 0....1 |
rdaGr2:placeOfBirth | The town, city, province, state, and/or country in which a person was born. For recommendations on medata quality see , more specifically and | literal or ref | 0....1 |
rdaGr2:placeOfDeath | The town, city, province, state, and/or country in which a person died. For recommendations on medata quality see , more specifically and | literal or ref | 0....1 |
rdaGr2:professionOrOccupation | The profession or occupation in which the agent works or has worked. | literal or ref | 0....n |
owl:sameAs | Another URI of the same agent. | ref | 0....n |