Class: Agent

An autonomous actor (person, organization, or computational agent) that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place, for the existence of an entity, or for another agent’s activity.

URI: vaspec:Agent

Parents

• is_a: Entity - Anything that exists, has existed, or will exist.

Referenced by Class

• Activity Activity➞performedBy _0..* Agent
• Affiliation Affiliation➞member _1..1 Agent
• Affiliation Affiliation➞organization _1..1 Agent
• Agent Agent➞childOrganization _0..* Agent
• Agent Agent➞parentOrganization _0..* Agent
• Contribution Contribution➞contributionMadeBy _0..1 Agent

Attributes

Own

• Agent➞agentType _0..1
  • Description: A specific type of agent the Agent object represents. Must be one of {Person, Organization, Software Agent}
  • Range: Coding
• Agent➞softwareVersion _0..1
  • Description: For software/computational agents, the specific version of the software it represents.
  • Range: String
• Agent➞hasAffiliation _0..*
  • Description: A membership relation between the Agent and an Organization to which they belong or at one time belonged.
  • Range: Affiliation
• Agent➞parentOrganization _0..*
  • Description: A larger Organization of which this Organization is a part
  • Range: Agent
• Agent➞childOrganization _0..*
  • Description: A smaller Organization that is a part of this larger one
  • Range: Agent

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

Other properties

Comments:		This is a stub for a basic model of an Agent that may be developed in future iterations of the specification. At present, adopters can plug their own model of Agents in here.
Exact Mappings:		CAM:Agent