European Core

Aggregate BIEs

  1. Contact Person
  2. Identifier
  3. Location
  4. Person
Contact Person
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Property term Definition Cardinality Representation term
Family NameA family name is usually shared by members of a family. This attribute also carries prefixes or suffixes which are part of the Family Name, e.g. “de Boer”, “van de Putte”, “von und zu Orlow”. Multiple family names, such as are commonly found in Hispanic countries, are recorded in the single Family Name field so that, for example, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Family Name would be recorded as "Cervantes Saavedra."0..1Name
Given NameA given name, or multiple given names, are the denominator(s) that identify an individual within a family. These are given to a person by his or her parents at birth or may be legally recognised as 'given names' through a formal process. All given names are ordered in one field so that, for example, the Given Name for Johan Sebastian Bach is 'Johan Sebastian.'0..1Name
Identifier
.For many systems, the identifier is the key piece of information about an individual and therefore an important part of the core person vocabulary. However, all identifiers are contextspecific and when exchanging data between systems it is important to provide additional information that makes this explicit. An individual may have any number of identifiers. For this reason the Formal Identifier class is used
Property term Definition Cardinality Representation term
IdentifierThe Formal Identifier class represents any identifier issued by any authority, whether a government agency or not. It captures the identifier itself and details of the issuing authority, the date on which the identifier was issued and so on.0..1Identifier
Location
ISO 19112 defines a location as "an identifiable geographic place." With this in mind, "Eiffel Tower", "Madrid" and "California" are all locations and this is a common way of representing locations in public sector data, i.e. simply by using a recognised name. Such identifiers are common although they can be highly ambiguous as many places share the same or similar names. In addition to a simple (string) label or name for a Location, this vocabulary defines three further ways in which it can be identified: - by URI (such as a GeoNames or DBpedia URI); - by address; - by geometry, that is, a point, line or polygon expressed using coordinates in some coordinate reference system.
Property term Definition Cardinality Representation term
Geographic NameAgain quoting from ISO 19112, a geographic name is a "spatial reference in the form of a label or code that identifies a location. “Spain” is an example of a country name; “SW1P 3AD” is an example of a postcode. Both are geographic names. The country codes defined in ISO 3166 are further examples of geographic names. As noted in Section 4.1.10, the Publications Office of the European Union recommends the use of ISO 3166-1 codes for countries in all cases except two:  use 'UK' in preference to the ISO 3166 code GB for the United Kingdom;  use 'EL' in preference to the ISO 3166 code GR for Greece. The 'place' may be an abstract location such as a jurisdiction as opposed to a physical location. The geographic name might be a recognised name, such as 'Paris,' which may or may not be ambiguous in context, or it might be descriptive (such as 'Rhine km 203'). Although geographic names are always useful, it is recommended that an additional method be used to identify a location. Places may have multiple geographic names in a single language or multiple languages. Where a name is language-specific, that language should be identified along with the name (see Section 4.9). There is no cardinality restriction on the number of geographic names that can be used to describe a single location.0..1Name
Country.0..1 Country (ABIE) (jus)
Person
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Property term Definition Cardinality Representation term
Family NameA family name is usually shared by members of a family. This attribute also carries prefixes or suffixes which are part of the Family Name, e.g. “de Boer”, “van de Putte”, “von und zu Orlow”. Multiple family names, such as are commonly found in Hispanic countries, are recorded in the single Family Name field so that, for example, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Family Name would be recorded as "Cervantes Saavedra."0..1Name
Given NameA given name, or multiple given names, are the denominator(s) that identify an individual within a family. These are given to a person by his or her parents at birth or may be legally recognised as 'given names' through a formal process. All given names are ordered in one field so that, for example, the Given Name for Johan Sebastian Bach is 'Johan Sebastian.'0..1Name
Gender.0..1Code
Date Of BirthA date that specifies the birth date of a person0..1Date
Place Of BirthThe Place of Birth and Place of Death are given using the Location class which is associated via the appropriate relationship..1..1 Location (ABIE) (ec)
LanguageA language that is understood by the person, denoted as a value from ISO 639-1 alpha 20..*Language (code list)