A human being as an individual.1
The kind of involvement of a Person in the research ecosystem is specified in the links with the organisations, the services, etc. This typically includes:
- researchers (Persons performing research in an Organisation Unit as employees or students);
- authors and other contributors (Persons signing a publication, creators of data sets, software developers, etc.);
- investigators and project participants (Persons involved in a Project as principal investigators, co investigators, project managers, consultants, etc.);
- management (directors, rectors, deans, department heads, etc.);
- support staff (technicians, responsible for Equipment, librarians and digital asset curators, administrative staff, etc.).
One Person typically has many of these relationships.
Those of Agent plus:
name : Person Name
alternate names : List<Person Name>
Those of Agent plus:
is-the-person-in / has-person : A Person can be the person in any number of Affiliation Statements.
- Close match of FOAF Person (identified by URI http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person), which is also used in VIVO
- Narrow match of Schema.org Person
[1] Source: The Oxford Dictionary, https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/person