Class: Affiliation
A relationship between an Agent and a Group or Organization to which they belong or belonged.
URI: vaspec:Affiliation
Parents
- is_a: Entity - Anything that exists, has existed, or will exist.
Referenced by Class
- Agent Agent➞hasAffiliation 0..* Affiliation
- Contribution Contribution➞organizationalContext 0..* Affiliation
Attributes
Own
- Affiliation➞member 1..1
- Description: The Agent participating in the Affiliation
- Range: Agent
- Affiliation➞organization 1..1
- Description: The Organization to which the Agent belongs or belonged.
- Range: Agent
- Affiliation➞organizationalRole 0..*
- Description: An official position or role held by the Agent in the Organization during the span of the defined Affiliation (e.g. graduate student, principle investigator, curator, physician, expert panel member)
- Range: Coding
- Affiliation➞affiliationStatus 0..1
- Description: The status of the Agent's affiliation at the time the Affiliation record was created or last updated (e.g. active, pending, probation, inactive)
- Range: Coding
- Affiliation➞startDate 0..1
- Description: The date that the Affiliation described here began (where a organizational role is provided, this is the date when this role in the organization began)
- Range: Ga4ghDateTime
- Affiliation➞endDate 0..1
- Description: The date that the Affiliation described here ended (where a organizational role is provided, this is the date when this role in the organization ended)
- Range: Ga4ghDateTime
Inherited from Entity:
- Element➞extensionElement 0..*
- Description: A key-value data structure that allows definition of custom fields to capture information not directly supported by the VA specification.
- Range: Extension
- Entity➞localId 1..1
- Description: The logical identifier of the entity in the system of record, e.g. a UUID. This 'id' is unique within a given system. The identified entity may have a different 'id' in a different system.
- Range: Identifier
- Entity➞globalIdentifier 0..*
- Description: A business identifier or accession number for the entity, typically as provided by an external system or authority, that is globally unique and persists across implementing systems.
- Range: Identifier
- Entity➞type 1..1
- Description: The schema class that is instantiated by the data object. Must be the name of a class from the VA schema.
- Range: Class
- Entity➞label 0..1
- Description: A primary name for the Entity.
- Range: String
- Entity➞alternativeLabel 0..*
- Description: An alternative name for the Entity.
- Range: String
- Entity➞description 0..1
- Description: A free text description of the Entity.
- Range: String
- Entity➞hasURL 0..*
- Description: The URL/web address of a digital resource representing the entity, or providing information about it.
- Range: Url
- Entity➞reference 0..*
- Description: A document or other Information Entity that describes the Entity.
- Range: InformationEntity
- Entity➞xref 0..*
- Description: A cross-reference to database identifier(s) representing the same or a closely related entity or concept as the Entity.
- Range: String
- Entity➞thisRecordMeta 0..1
- Description: A reusable structure that encapsulates provenance metadata about the present record/data object (as opposed to provenance information about the real world entity this record/data object represents).
- Range: RecordMetadata
- Entity➞sourceRecordMeta 0..*
- Description: A reusable structure that encapsulates provenance metadata that applies to an upstream record/data objdct about the Entity, from which content of the present record was derived.
- Range: RecordMetadata