Person/corporate body (conditionally mandatory)

Definition

In the history of the object, the person or corporate body involved in the event described

Other possible database element names

Artist

Producer

Organisation

Name of the person involved

Name of the institution

Owner

Text/URI

Text and/or URI

Repeatable

Yes

Obligation level

At least one event in the history of the object is mandatory.

In addition to the Event type, each event must have at least one "who", "where" or "when". 

Recording notes

It is recommended to specify names of persons/corporate bodies both in a text element and separately using URIs from authority files. There are various recommendations for specifying preferred names, depending on the application. An important reference is the Integrated Authority File (GND).

In the case of data delivery to the German Digital Library, the delivery of URIs from the Integrated Authority File is strongly recommended for the identification of persons and corporate bodies. 

It is recommended that the role played by the person/corporate body mentioned in the described event in the object history is specified in a separate element. If this is not possible, the role specification should be added to the name in such a way that it can be extracted rule-based during export, e.g. "Last name, first name (role: [role name])".

If the person/corporate body that produced the object cannot be identified, a separate data element (in LIDO: <lido:culture>) should be used to specify the geographical, stylistic or cultural attribution of the object, if possible.

CARE: Knowledge gaps in the object's history should always be disclosed (e.g. by stating “not documented” or “not known to us” in the data elements “Person/entity”, “Date”, “Location”). Uncertainties or attributions that originate, for example, from the surviving collection entry documentation should be contextualized in a separate data element “Event description” (in LIDO: <lido:eventDescriptionSet>/<descriptiveNoteValue>). If the persons/corporate bodies involved can be researched and identified retrospectively, but do not have a unique identifier in the Integrated Authority File, collaborative knowledge databases such as Wikidata are suitable for generating unique identifiers.

Terminology recommendation

Integrated Authority File (GND, German National Library): The following search interfaces provide a convenient way to search the GND: https://explore.gnd.network/ (GND-Explorer), https://lobid.org/gnd (lobid-gnd), https://swb.bsz-bw.de/DB=2.104/ (OGND).  German Digital Library: Preferred name in Entity Facts is decisive.

Union List of Artist Names (for persons and corporate bodies active in various functions in the arts) 

Virtual International Authority File

Wikidata

Examples

Expression in LIDO (v1.0 and v1.1)

<lido:eventWrap>
    <lido:eventSet>
		 <lido:event>
		      <lido:eventActor>
	               <lido:actorInRole>
                        <lido:actor>
                             <lido:actorID lido:type="http://terminology.lido-schema.org/lido00099">https://d-nb.info/gnd/24495-8</lido:actorID>
                             <lido:nameActorSet>
                                  <lido:appellationValue>Nixdorf Computer AG</lido:appellationValue>
                             </lido:nameActorSet>
                        </lido:actor>
                   </lido:actorInRole>
              </lido:eventActor>
          </lido:event>
     </lido:eventSet>
 </lido:eventWrap>

Comparison with relevant standards and database models

ID data element

mds0010