LEAP agent

Belongs to LEAP 2.0 > classes

Working definition
Refers to a human individual or organization relevant to the portfolio holder, that can be addressed, can express things, and can have intentions and beliefs.

Explanation
Dublin Core has an Agent class, defined as "A resource that acts or has the power to act" and comments "Examples of Agent include person, organization, and software agent." For LEAP 2.0 purposes there seems no need to include software agents, so we are left with a more coherent set of agents who are are all human, whether individual or corporate.

Predicates
See the notes on LEAP triples for an explanation of what forms of triples there are, and how they are represented here.
 * Particular "Inherited" predicates are given to clarify their likely meaning for this class.
 * "Direct" predicates are those where this class is in the domain of the predicate (but its superclass is not).
 * "Inverse" predicates, if given for reference, are those where the class is in the range, but not the domain, of the predicate.
 * "=" means the predicate expects a literal object: the type of literal may be specified here.
 * "&rarr;" means the predicate expects an object URL referring to an instance of the given class(es).
 * "&larr;" is used for inverse predicates, and means that triples may exist with instances of the given class(es) as subject and this class as object.

Inherited
Particular predicates from item:
 * (content ... use description instead)
 * contribution by &larr; LEAP item
 * created by &larr; LEAP item
 * presented by &rarr; LEAP entry that gives an account of the significance of the agent to the holder

Direct

 * certifies &rarr; LEAP item
 * contributes to &rarr; LEAP item
 * coverage = (but prefer temporal)
 * date ref = (but prefer end and start)
 * description = a description of the agent,
 * end = date at which the agent ceased to exist
 * is collaborator on &rarr; anything that has intent: LEAP achievement; LEAP activity; LEAP entry; LEAP resource; LEAP selection;
 * is creator of &rarr; LEAP item
 * knows me as =
 * manages &rarr; LEAP activity (not LEAP agent: that is a different relationship)
 * owns &rarr; LEAP item
 * publishes &rarr; LEAP item
 * sponsors &rarr; LEAP activity
 * start = date at which the agent came into being
 * temporal = (but prefer date ref)

Inverse

 * in employ of &larr; LEAP activity - this is the only "employing" relationship

Subclasses

 * LEAP organization
 * LEAP person

Issues
A note can go here of any issues that are not represented above, which can then be discussed on the list or under the discussion tab.