Person

A post in the category Person describes a currently living or deceased individual, real or fictional/literary person. The Person category in KulturNav corresponds to established standards foaf:Person and CIDOC CRM E21.Person.

Properties

Facts

Names

  • Name. The complete, recommended, accepted name form for the person. The name is usually written in inverted form as Last Name, First Name. Exceptions may exist where the established name form of the person begins with the first name, e.g., Olaus Petri or Albertus pictor. This also applies to established pseudonyms and artist names. It is also possible to specify the name in multiple languages, following the specific language's naming rules, such as Sami names written in direct name order (no: Biti, Nils, sme: Bikko Nilla). Mandatory property. Please follow the guidelines provided by the Royal Library (KB) regarding name formatting and other practices. Detailed rules and recommendations are available in Names of Persons.
  • First Name. The person's first name. We recommend recording all the names the person is registered with in administrative sources - "baptismal names."
  • Middle Name. The person's middle name. In Sweden, a middle name is "a surname that the person bears between their first name and last name."
  • Last Name. The person's last name in administrative sources, e.g., the name registered at birth or in connection with marriage.
  • Other Name. A previous/later name or name form for the person. Here, for example, the person's name before (or after) marriage, an artist, nickname, or stage name can be specified. A person can have several other names. Other names can be typed, specified, and dated:
  • Type. Here, you can choose a type of name from a list. The type is a term in KulturNav.
  • Specified. Here, you can specify the previous name, e.g., "Maiden name." Language-adapted.
  • Earliest Date. The earliest date for the use of the name. The date is specified as an ISO 8601 date (year, year-month-day).
  • Latest Date. The latest date for the use of the name. The date is specified as an ISO 8601 date (year, year-month-day).
  • Date Comment. A comment about uncertainty or similar in connection with birth data.
  • Source. Specific sources for the previous name.
  • Alternative Name. An alternative name for the person. Language-adapted. The property can be used multiple times.
  • Hidden Names. Alternative names for the person that can increase the searchability of the name but should not be used or displayed. Language-adapted. The property can be used multiple times.

Description

  • Description. A short descriptive text about the person, a kind of mini-biography, making it easy for the user of the post to understand who the post describes. The description text is displayed in the header of the person's page.

Birth

  • Birth. Properties describing the person's birth event:
  • Time. Birth year or birth date. Specified as an ISO 8601 date (year, year-month-day) that may be uncertain. Read more about uncertainty in date indications. Birth is treated as an event that can handle additional description:
  • Date Comment. A comment about uncertainty or similar in connection with the birth timestamp.
  • Place. Place where the person was born in the form of text. It is recommended to specify the birthplace as a reference to a location post.
  • Location Reference. A reference to a location post where the person was born. You specify the place by searching for posts and choosing the desired one from the list.
  • Specified. A specification of the location reference in the form of text. This can specify, for example, to a specific street address, staircase, etc. - information that is less efficient to manage as separate location posts.
  • Source. Specific sources for the event.

Death

  • Death. Year or date of death. Specified as an ISO 8601 date (year, year-month-day) that may be uncertain. The moment of death is treated as an event that can handle additional description - see above for the birth event.

Life Role

  • Life Role. A person can be described with one or more life roles. Life roles describe fields of activity or areas of expertise where the person is or has been engaged. Life roles concern areas of activity within which the person is more or less known or recognized, and often it is the life role that gives the person an authority post in KulturNav. No education is required for the life role, and the activity does not need to be conducted professionally. The boundary against Occupation is fluid, and information about life role/occupation may complement or overlap. Life roles are treated as terms in the dataset Life Role and have a function to make it easier to search and find in KulturNav where people sometimes have the same name. Life roles can be dated (compare with the concept of floruit) and a place can be specified. See which properties are available under Birth above. In addition to this, you have the opportunity to provide a specific life description:
  • Biography. A (concise) life story linked to the life role. Language-adapted.
  • Comment. A comment on the life role. Language-adapted.

Gender

  • Gender. The person's gender as a reference to a term selected from a list. The alternative terms are retrieved from the dataset Gender.

Nationality

  • Nationality. The person's nationality(-ies) as a reference to a country (location posts of the land type) searched from KulturNav's database. See the field more as a way to tag the person against countries than a factual reference to a historically correct country at the time of the person's citizenship.

Title

  • Title. The person's title/titles in the form of text, e.g., Mr., Mrs., Ph.D., or Captain. Titles are treated as events that can be dated and placed. See which properties are available under Birth above.

Biography

  • Person's Biography. A (concise) life story. Can be written in descriptive form or as a chronological list. Data becomes easy to read and understand if biographies are structured in the same way for people within the same dataset. The biography provides context to registered properties on the person's post. Multilingual.
  • Note that the biography should contain relevant information in relation to the purpose of the dataset. This applies to biographical information about living individuals. A person's family situation: marriage, divorces, children, and other kinship should only be included if deemed relevant in the context. The fact that a currently living architect has two children, Knatte and Tjatte (who are not architects), can be seen as irrelevant in a dataset of architects. Read more about personal data.

Relationships

Events

Properties that are usually tied to a specific timestamp or time interval are treated as events with several properties. The events have a main property and then additional properties if more facts are available.

  • Activity. Here, a person's activity or involvement can be described as a type (text). Activity can, for example, be that a person was an amateur photographer, and the person did not have a professional practice within the activity.
  • Type of Activity can instead be specified as a term.
  • Earliest Date. The earliest timestamp for the event. The timestamp is specified as an ISO 8601 date (year, year-month-day).
  • Latest Date. The latest timestamp for the event. The timestamp is specified as an ISO 8601 date (year, year-month-day).
  • Date Comment. A comment about uncertainty or similar in connection with the event.
  • Place. Place where the event occurred in the form of text. It is recommended to instead specify the place as a reference to a location post (below).
  • Location Reference. A reference to a location post where the event occurred. You specify the place by searching for posts and choosing the desired one from the list.
  • Specified. A specification of the location reference in the form of text. This can, for example, specify the location to a specific street address, staircase, etc. - details that are less efficient to manage as separate location posts.
  • Source. Specific sources for the event.
  • Occupation. The person's occupation: an occupation or a set of tasks that one has been educated for or apprenticed for. Several occupations can be specified. Occupations are treated as terms in KulturNav and consist of data compiled from several datasets.
  • Education. The person's education. Several educations can be specified. Different educations are treated as terms in KulturNav and consist of data compiled from several datasets. If there are missing educations, contact.... The education can be dated, and a place can be specified (see properties above under activity). You can also specify where the education took place:
  • Educational Institution. A reference to the organization (educational institution) where the education took place. You specify the institution by searching for the post and choosing the desired one from the list.
  • Marriage. A marriage with another person, spouse, sought and selected from a list.
  • Membership. Membership in an organization, e.g., an association. The organization is sought from posts in the Organization category and selected from a list. If the organization is missing, a new authority post can be created.
  • Award. An award given to the person. The award is specified as text. It can be prizes, medals, etc., to acknowledge and reward the person's actions or achievements. Sporting achievements?
  • Appointment. An appointment, honorary award, or assignment received by the person. The appointment is specified as text. The appointment/assignment, for example: docent, professor, appointed to service in courts and public administration, ennoblement, titles. [Boundary against occupation.]
  • Stay/Residence. One or more places where the person has lived or stayed. The place is specified as a reference to a location post and searched in the database and selected from a list. The stay can be dated.
  • Participated in. The person can be a participant in events. Participation is specified as a reference to an event post in KulturNav, searched in the database and selected from a list.
  • Related to. A general relation between the person and another actor. The relation can be specified with text:
  • Specification. A text describing how the actors were related. Language-adapted.
  • Has works/objects at. An event that allows linking a person to works or objects in the form of holdings in cultural heritage institution collections at an aggregated level. A person can have works/objects at many organizations. Organizations are searched from KulturNav's database and selected from the list. The property can, for example, be used to indicate that a photographer has photo collections in an archive or that an artist has collections in an art museum. Additional properties can be recorded in addition to time and place:
  • Holdings. A description of the archive or collection holdings at the current organization. There may be several holdings within the same organization.
  • Web Address. The holdings' web address in the form of a URL. It can, for example, be a reference to an archive in NAD.
  • Ownership. People can also own other actors (such as organizations, companies, ships, and named animals). In KulturNav, ownership is indicated from the object owned to the person.

Relationships

Relationships to other records within KulturNav. The relationships are fundamentally reflexive and are stored on the current record and proposed as a new relationship on the related record (which must be approved). The relationship is only stored on the current record if the related record is a read-only placeholder. Learn more about placeholders.

  • Parent to. The person is a parent to another person. The child is retrieved from the KulturNav database.
  • Child to. The person is a child to another person. The parent is retrieved from the KulturNav database.
  • Sibling to. The person is a sibling to another person. The sibling is retrieved from the KulturNav database.
  • Same as (internal). The person is a duplicate with another person record in KulturNav.
  • Replaced by indicates a reference to the record that replaces the current record when the current record is archived. The current record is thus a duplicate record that should not be used. The replacement record is retrieved and selected from a list. Learn more about duplicate records.

Mappings (relationships to other internet resources)

Mappings are external relationships to individuals or other resources published on the internet (in other systems/schemas) and identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). A URL to the related place/resource is specified as the field value in the mappings.

  • Same as. A relationship to a URI defining the same person in another authority system/schema.
  • See also. A see also relationship to a URL providing additional information or description of the person, such as a Wikipedia article about the person.

Sources

References

  • References. A textual reference, such as a Harvard..., to a source referenced in the record. Many sources can be referenced.

Links - web references

  • Web references. A reference to an internet source referenced in the record. Consists of a URL to the source and text. Many URLs can be referenced.

Images

  • Images (one or more) depicting the person or images aiding in identifying the person. For example, the person's portrait, crest, handwriting sample, and signature. Learn more about images.

License

  • License. A license defining how the record and its content can be (re)used by other systems and applications. Learn more about licenses.

Administrative

Administrative data about the record.

  • Dataset. The person's placement in a dataset.
  • Alternative ID. The record's identity in other (previous) systems/databases that managed the record. Multiple identities can be handled from different systems/databases.
  • Is collection term. Indicates if the property is checked that the record is a collection term. Read more about collection terms above.
  • Version. A version number for records. KulturNav does not yet have an active version management (however, there is an editing history).

Notes

  • Administrative note. An administrative note about things to improve in the record. (skos:editorialNote)
  • Historical note. A note about any changes to the record's meaning. (skos:historyNote)
  • Change note. A log of minor changes in the record's content. (skos:changeNote)

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