Agent
person, group, organization or project that provides a piece of information (i.e. a knowledge association)
classDiagram
AdministrativeEntity <|-- Agent
Agent : address
Agent : affiliation
Agent : category
Agent : description
Agent : has_attribute
Agent : id
Agent : iri
Agent : name
Agent : provided_by
Agent : source
Agent : type
Agent : xref
Parent Classes
Slots
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| address | the particulars of the place where someone or an organization is situated. For now, this slot is a simple text "blob" containing all relevant details of the given location for fitness of purpose. For the moment, this "address" can include other contact details such as email and phone number(?). |
| affiliation | a professional relationship between one provider (often a person) within another provider (often an organization). Target provider identity should be specified by a CURIE. Providers may have multiple affiliations. |
| category | Name of the high level ontology class in which this entity is categorized. Corresponds to the label for the biolink entity type class. In a neo4j database this MAY correspond to the neo4j label tag. In an RDF database it should be a biolink model class URI. This field is multi-valued. It should include values for ancestors of the biolink class; for example, a protein such as Shh would have category values biolink:Protein, biolink:GeneProduct, biolink:MolecularEntity, etc. In an RDF database, nodes will typically have an rdf:type triples. This can be to the most specific biolink class, or potentially to a class more specific than something in biolink. For example, a sequence feature f may have a rdf:type assertion to a SO class such as TF_binding_site, which is more specific than anything in biolink. Here we would have categories {biolink:GenomicEntity, biolink:MolecularEntity, biolink:NamedThing} |
| description | a human-readable description of an entity |
| has_attribute | connects any entity to an attribute |
| id | Different classes of agents have distinct preferred identifiers. For publishers, use the ISBN publisher code. See https://grp.isbn-international.org/ for publisher code lookups. For editors, authors and individual providers, use the individual's ORCID if available; Otherwise, a ScopusID, ResearchID or Google Scholar ID ('GSID') may be used if the author ORCID is unknown. Institutional agents could be identified by an International Standard Name Identifier ('ISNI') code. |
| iri | An IRI for an entity. This is determined by the id using expansion rules. |
| name | it is recommended that an author's 'name' property be formatted as "surname, firstname initial." |
| provided_by | The value in this node property represents the knowledge provider that created or assembled the node and all of its attributes. Used internally to represent how a particular node made its way into a knowledge provider or graph. |
| source | None |
| type | None |
| xref | Alternate CURIEs for a thing |
Mappings
| Mapping Type | Mapped Value |
|---|---|
| self | ['https://w3id.org/biolink/biolink-model/:Agent'] |
| native | ['https://w3id.org/biolink/biolink-model/:Agent'] |
| exact | ['prov:Agent', 'dct:Agent'] |
| narrow | ['UMLSSG:ORGA', 'STY:T092', 'STY:T093', 'STY:T094', 'STY:T095', 'STY:T096'] |