edm:Agent
- Adina Ciocoiu
- Hugo Manguinhas
The class edm:Agent comprises people, either individually (ie. Person) or in groups (ie. Corporate Body), 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. This is a recommended property for this class. Although the maximum number of occurrences is set at 1, it must be interpreted as 1 per language tag. At least one
For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal |
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skos:altLabel | Alternative forms of the name of the Agent. This is a recommended property for this class.
| literal |
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skos:note | A note about the Agent e.g. biographical notes. | literal |
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dc:date | A significant date associated with the Agent. Europeana recommends date conforming to ISO 8601 starting with the year and with hyphens ( | literal or ref |
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dc:identifier | An identifier of the Agent. | literal |
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dcterms:hasPart(Corporate Body) | Reference to an Agent that is part of the Agent being described (e.g. a member of a music group). This property is only applicable to a Corporate Body. | ref |
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dcterms:isPartOf(Corporate Body) | Reference to an Agent that the described Agent is part of (e.g. a music group). This property is only applicable to a Corporate Body. | ref |
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edm:begin | The date the Agent was born/established. The Europeana recommends the date conforms to ISO 8601 starting with the year and with hyphens (
For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal |
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edm:end | The date the Agent died/was terminated. The Europeana recommends the date conforms to ISO 8601 starting with the year and with hyphens (
For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal |
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edm:hasMet | Reference to another Contextual Entity which the Agent has “met” in a broad sense (e.g. the place where the person lived). | ref |
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edm:isRelatedTo | Reference to other Contextual Entities, particularly other Agents, with whom the Agent is related in a generic sense. | ref |
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foaf:name | The name of the Agent as a simple textual string. | literal |
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rdaGr2:biographicalInformation | Information pertaining to the life or history of the Agent. | literal |
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rdaGr2:dateOfBirth(Person) | The date the Agent was born. This property is only applicable to a Person. Europeana recommends date conforming to ISO 8601 starting with the year and with hyphens (
For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal |
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rdaGr2:dateOfDeath(Person) | The date the Agent died. This property is only applicable to a Person. Europeana recommends date conforming to ISO 8601 starting with the year and with hyphens (
For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal |
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rdaGr2:dateOfEstablishment(Corporate Body) | The date on which the Agent was established or founded. his property is only applicable to a Corporate Body. Europeana recommends date conforming to ISO 8601 starting with the year and with hyphens ( | literal |
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rdaGr2:dateOfTermination(Corporate Body) | The date on which the Agent (corporate body) was terminated or dissolved. This property is only applicable to a Corporate Body.
| literal |
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rdaGr2:gender(Person) | The gender with which the Agent identifies. This property is only applicable to a Person. | literal |
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rdaGr2:placeOfBirth(Person) | The town, city, province, state, and/or country in which the Agent was born. This property is only applicable to a Person. For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal or ref |
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rdaGr2:placeOfDeath(Person) | The town, city, province, state, and/or country in which the Agent died. This property is only applicable to a Person. For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal or ref |
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rdaGr2:professionOrOccupation(Person) | The profession or occupation in which the Agent works or has worked. This property is only applicable to a Person. | literal or ref |
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owl:sameAs | Another URI that can be used to identify this Agent. | ref |
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