Class: Contribution

The actions taken by a particular agent in the creation, modification, assessment, or deprecation of some entity (e.g. a Statement, Evidence Line, Data Item, Publication, etc.)

URI: vaspec:Contribution

Parents

• is_a: Activity - An action or set of actions performed by an agent, that occurs over a period of time. Activities may use, generate, modify, move, or destroy one or more entities.

Referenced by Class

• InformationEntity InformationEntity➞qualifiedContribution _0..* Contribution
• RecordMetadata RecordMetadata➞qualifiedContribution _0..* Contribution

Attributes

Own

• Contribution➞contributionMadeBy _0..1
  • Description: The agent that made the contribution.
  • Range: Agent
• Contribution➞contributionMadeTo _0..1
  • Description: The artifact toward which the contribution was made.
  • Range: InformationEntity
• Contribution➞contributorRole _0..*
  • Description: A role indicating the nature of the contribution made by the Agent - i.e. the specific type of contribution that was made.
  • Range: Coding
• Contribution➞organizationalContext _0..*
  • Description: An organization whose resources and/or directives supported the contribution made by an Agent.
  • Range: Affiliation

Inherited from Activity:

• 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
• Activity➞activityType _0..*
  • Description: A specific type of activity this Activity object may represent
  • Range: Coding
• Activity➞startDate _0..1
  • Description: The date that the Activity started
  • Range: Ga4ghDateTime
• Activity➞endDate _0..1
  • Description: The date that the Activity ended
  • Range: Ga4ghDateTime
• Activity➞performedBy _0..*
  • Description: An Agent taking part in executing the Activity.
  • Range: Agent
• Activity➞hadInput _0..*
  • Description: An entity that was input into the Activity (could be material or information)
  • Range: Entity
• Activity➞hadOutput _0..*
  • Description: An entity that was output from the Activity (could be material or information)
  • Range: Entity
• Activity➞wasSpecifiedBy _0..*
  • Description: A directive specification followed in performing an Activity, that describes how it should be executed.
  • Range: Method
• Activity➞hasPart _0..*
  • Description: A smaller, discrete Activity that is part of this larger Activity
  • Range: Activity
• Activity➞partOf _0..*
  • Description: A larger Activity of which this Activity is a part (i.e. it was performed during the larger Activity)
  • Range: Activity

Other properties

Comments:		The scope of a given Contribution instance includes only the actions of a single agent in contributing to a single artifact. The agent can be an individual, or a group or organization of individuals acting together to make the contribution. Contribution instances are used to organize information about when, where, how (e.g. what roles were played), and on whose behalf these actions were performed.
Exact Mappings:		CAM:Contribution