TDWG Person LSID Ontology Roger Hyam TDWG Biodiversity Information Standards 2006-11-27 $Date: 2007-08-15 15:05:50 +0200 (Wed, 15 Aug 2007) $ Ontology describing the metadata returned for LSIDs that are used for People. 0.2 - [SVN $Rev: 1294 $] This ontology makes a basic split between people, their names and contact details. Note that there are no regular contact details here like telephone, mobile, skype name, zip code, postcode, PO Box number, Street address. The vocabulary does not try to represent information that is handled better by vCard or FOAF implementations. AACR2 rules on von, van de la and other compund names recommended. Person A representation of a human being, living or dead. Lifespan The period for which this person was alive represented as a string. the form birthdate - deathdate (XXXX - YYYY; XXXX - or - YYYY as appropriate) is prefered, or as simple flourished date (fl. XXXX) may be given where that is all that is known. Birth date The date of birth of this person as an ISO date string. Death date The date of death of this person as an ISO date string - if appropriate. Flourished date A single date on which this person was known to be alive, as an ISO date string. If multiple dates are available then the property may be repeated. Subject scope Subject skill keyword. e.g. Entomology or Botany. May be repeated for multiple subjects. Geographic scope The geographic area this person's work was/is concerned with. e.g. 'Africa' or 'Alpine'. May be repeated for multiple areas / countries. Author of The person has 'authored' this resource. 'Authored' here is taken in the broad sense. The resource may be any kind of object not just a PublicationCitation. Alias Another name this person is known by. May include nicknames, formal abbreviations or standard forms along with the context for use if appropriate. Contact details A link to contact information (such as postal address, email address and phone number) for this person. Person Name Alias The respresentation of a name a person is known by and the context in which it should be or has been used. Context The context in which this name form is used or has been used in the past. e.g. 'Publications in German' or 'Prior to Marriage in 1964'. May include indication of formal standardisation system that may be represented by the ratifiedBy property. e.g. 'IPNI Authors'. Standard Form The standardised, possibly abbreviated, form of the person's name in this context. Surname A hereditary name common to all members of a family, as distinct from a given name or forename. Where (for a double barrelled or two word name) the delimitation between surname and forename is not clear, name variations may be supplied with the different delimitations. Eg 'Tom Parker Bowles' could be handled as 'Parker Bowles, Tom' and as 'Bowles, Tom Parker' using different PersonNameAlias objects for the same person. Forenames All other names not included in the surname. May be just initials, all forenames in full or a combination of expanded names and initials. Is Preferred Indicates that this is the preferred name alias for the preson.