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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 rdaGrp2 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 Europeana Property - 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 Europeana property

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

  • 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.

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=''f''>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

edm:isRelatedTo

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

rdaGr2:biographicalInformation

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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