ISA Programme Person Core Vocabulary

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Abstract

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.

Status

The Person Core Vocabulary was developed under the ISA Programme of the European Union and all documentation is available on the European Commission's Joinup Platform.

This vocabulary was not developed by a W3C group and its publication does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. Terms MAY be deprecated or their definitions clarified but they will not be deleted (see the W3C Persistence Policy). The vocabulary MAY be further developed by a future group.

Copyright © 2012 European Commission

The vocabulary is published under the European Commission ISA Open Metadata Licence v1.1

Namespaces used

Namespaces used in this schema
prefixnamespace
dctermshttp://purl.org/dc/terms/
foafhttp://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
rdfshttp://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
schemahttp://schema.org/>
personhttp://www.w3.org/ns/person#

Summary of terms

The Person Core Vocabulary defines one the following terms.

Classperson:Person
labelPerson
commentAn 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.
subClassOffoaf:Person
subClassOfschema:Person
Datatype propertyperson:patronymicName
labelpatronymic name
commentPatronymic 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" (Сергеевич) in "Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev" (Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв).
domainperson:Person
rangerdfs:Literal
Datatype propertyperson:birthName
labelbirth name
commentAll 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.
domainperson:Person
rangerdfs:Literal
Object propertyperson:placeOfBirth
labelplace of birth
commentA person's place of birth.
domainperson:Person
rangedcterms:Location, schema:Place
Object propertyperson:placeOfDeath
labelplace of death
commentA person's place of death.
domainperson:Person
rangedcterms:Location, schema:Place
Object propertyperson:countryOfBirth
labelcountry of birth
commentThe country in which a Person was born.
domainperson:Person
rangedcterms:Location, schema:Place
Object propertyperson:countryOfDeath
labelcountry of death
commentThe country in which a Person died.
domainperson:Person
rangedcterms:Location, schema:Place
Object propertyperson:citizenship
labelcitizenship
commentThe citizenship relationship links a Person to a Jurisdiction that has conferred citizenship rights on the individual such as the right to vote, to receive certain protection from the community or the issuance of a passport. Multiple citizenships are recorded as multiple instances of the citizenship relationship.
domainperson:Person
rangedcterms:Jurisdiction
Object propertyperson:residency
labelresidency
commentResidency typically provides an individual with a subset of the rights of a citizen.
domainperson:Person
rangedcterms:Jurisdiction