Person¶

Description:	A human being as an individual. Source: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/person 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: (1) researchers (Persons performing research in an Organisation Unit as employees or students); (2) authors and contributors (Persons signing a publication, creators of data sets, software developers, etc.); (3) investigators and project participants (Persons involved in a Project as principal investigators, co investigators, project managers, consultants, etc.); (4) management (directors, rectors, deans, department heads, etc.); (5) support staffs (technicians, responsible for Equipment, librarians and digital asset curators, administrative staff, etc.). One Person typically has many of these relationships.
Examples:	openaire_cerif_xml_example_persons.xml
Representation:	XML element `Person`; the rest of this section documents children of this element
CERIF:	the Person entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#Person)

Internal Identifier¶

Use:	mandatory (1) in top level entity. When embedded in other entities the Internal Identifier must be included only for managed information (i.e. entities that have a concrete record in the local CRIS system). See Metadata representation in CERIF XML
Representation:	XML attribute `id`
CERIF:	the PersonIdentifier attribute (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#Person.PersonIdentifier)

PersonName¶

Description:	The name of the person
Use:	optional (0..1)
Representation:	XML element `PersonName` containing optional `FamilyNames`, optional `FirstNames` and optional `OtherNames`
CERIF:	the PersonName entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#PersonName) and the corresponding link (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#Person_PersonName)

FamilyNames¶

Use:	optional (0..1)
Representation:	XML element `FamilyNames`
CERIF:	the PersonName.FamilyNames attribute (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#PersonName.FamilyNames)

FirstNames¶

Use:	optional (0..1)
Representation:	XML element `FirstNames`
CERIF:	the PersonName.FirstNames attribute (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#PersonName.FirstNames)

OtherNames¶

Use:	optional (0..1)
Representation:	XML element `OtherNames`
CERIF:	the PersonName.OtherNames attribute (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#PersonName.OtherNames)

Gender¶

Description:	The gender of the person. Leave out in case the gender is unknown or not communicated.
Use:	optional (0..1)
Representation:	XML element `Gender`
CERIF:	the Person.Gender attribute (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#Person.Gender)
Vocabulary:	Genders (sociocultural, not linguistic) Masculine (`m`): Feminine (`f`):

ORCID¶

Description:	The ORCID identifier in case its value is certain or known to be a preferred one.
Use:	optional (0..1)
Representation:	XML element `ORCID`
CERIF:	the FederatedIdentifier entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#FederatedIdentifier)
Format:	any of: regular expression `https://orcid\.org/0000-000(1-[5-9]\|2-[0-9]\|3-[0-4])[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3}[0-9X]` (The original block of 20M identifiers reserved in 2013, as per https://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/116780-structure-of-the-orcid-identifier) regular expression `https://orcid\.org/0009-000[0-9]-[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{3}[0-9X]` (An additional block of 100M identifiers reserved in 2023, as per https://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/116780-structure-of-the-orcid-identifier)

AlternativeORCID¶

Description:	The ORCID identifiers in case the value is not certain, e.g. because there is a conflicting statement with a different value. This can also represent deprecated identifiers/profiles that have been merged into a single, current one that is preferred.
Use:	optional, possibly multiple (0..*)
Representation:	XML element `AlternativeORCID`
CERIF:	the FederatedIdentifier entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#FederatedIdentifier)
Format:	any of: regular expression `https://orcid\.org/0000-000(1-[5-9]\|2-[0-9]\|3-[0-4])[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{3}[0-9X]` (The original block of 20M identifiers reserved in 2013, as per https://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/116780-structure-of-the-orcid-identifier) regular expression `https://orcid\.org/0009-000[0-9]-[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{3}[0-9X]` (An additional block of 100M identifiers reserved in 2023, as per https://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/116780-structure-of-the-orcid-identifier)

ResearcherID¶

Description:	The ResearcherID identifier in case its value is certain or known to be a preferred one.
Use:	optional (0..1)
Representation:	XML element `ResearcherID`
CERIF:	the FederatedIdentifier entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#FederatedIdentifier)
Format:	regular expression `[A-Z]{1,3}-[0-9]{4}-(19\|20)[0-9][0-9]` (as per https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1053)

AlternativeResearcherID¶

Description:	The ResearcherID identifier in case the value is not certain, e.g. because there is a conflicting statement with a different value. This can also represent deprecated identifiers/profiles that have been merged into a single, current one that is preferred.
Use:	optional, possibly multiple (0..*)
Representation:	XML element `AlternativeResearcherID`
CERIF:	the FederatedIdentifier entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#FederatedIdentifier)
Format:	regular expression `[A-Z]{1,3}-[0-9]{4}-(19\|20)[0-9][0-9]` (as per https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1053)

ScopusAuthorID¶

Description:	The Scopus Author ID identifier in case its value is certain or known to be a preferred one.
Use:	optional (0..1)
Representation:	XML element `ScopusAuthorID`
CERIF:	the FederatedIdentifier entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#FederatedIdentifier)
Format:	regular expression `[0-9]{10,11}` (as per https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1153)

AlternativeScopusAuthorID¶

Description:	The Scopus Author ID identifier in case the value is not certain, e.g. because there is a conflicting statement with a different value. This can also represent deprecated identifiers/profiles that have been merged into a single, current one that is preferred.
Use:	optional, possibly multiple (0..*)
Representation:	XML element `AlternativeScopusAuthorID`
CERIF:	the FederatedIdentifier entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#FederatedIdentifier)
Format:	regular expression `[0-9]{10,11}` (as per https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1153)

ISNI¶

Description:	The ISNI identifier in case its value is certain or known to be a preferred one.
Use:	optional (0..1)
Representation:	XML element `ISNI`
CERIF:	the FederatedIdentifier entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#FederatedIdentifier)
Format:	regular expression `\d{4} \d{4} \d{4} \d{3}[\dX]` (as per https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P213)

AlternativeISNI¶

Description:	The ISNI identifier in case the value is not certain, e.g. because there is a conflicting statement with a different value. This can also represent deprecated identifiers/profiles that have been merged into a single, current one that is preferred.
Use:	optional, possibly multiple (0..*)
Representation:	XML element `AlternativeISNI`
CERIF:	the FederatedIdentifier entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#FederatedIdentifier)
Format:	regular expression `\d{4} \d{4} \d{4} \d{3}[\dX]` (as per https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P213)

DAI¶

Description:	The Digital Author Identifier in case its value is certain or known to be a preferred one.
Use:	optional (0..1)
Representation:	XML element `DAI`
CERIF:	the FederatedIdentifier entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#FederatedIdentifier)
Format:	regular expression `info\:eu\-repo/dai/nl/\d{8}[\dxX]` (as per https://wiki.surfnet.nl/display/standards/DAI)

AlternativeDAI¶

Description:	The Digital Author Identifier in case the value is not certain, e.g. because there is a conflicting statement with a different value. This can also represent deprecated identifiers/profiles that have been merged into a single, current one that is preferred.
Use:	optional, possibly multiple (0..*)
Representation:	XML element `AlternativeDAI`
CERIF:	the FederatedIdentifier entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#FederatedIdentifier)
Format:	regular expression `info\:eu\-repo/dai/nl/\d{8}[\dxX]` (as per https://wiki.surfnet.nl/display/standards/DAI)

Identifier¶

Description:	A generic identifier, to be used only if your identifier does not fit in any of the above specific identifier types. This in particular applies to various national and service-specific identifiers that can be relevant in some interchange scenarios.
Use:	optional, possibly multiple (0..*)
Representation:	XML element `Identifier` with a required `type` attribute (the URI of the identifier scheme)
CERIF:	the FederatedIdentifier entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#FederatedIdentifier)

ElectronicAddress¶

Description:	An electronic address associated with the person
Use:	optional, possibly multiple (0..*)
Representation:	XML element `ElectronicAddress`
CERIF:	the ElectronicAddress entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#ElectronicAddress) and the corresponding link (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#Person_ElectronicAddress)

Affiliation¶

Description:	The organisation or organisation unit the person is affiliated with
Use:	optional, possibly multiple (0..*)
Representation:	XML element `Affiliation` with embedded XML element `OrgUnit`
CERIF:	the Person_OrganisationUnit linking entity (https://w3id.org/cerif/model#Person_OrganisationUnit) with the https://w3id.org/cerif/vocab/PersonOrganisationRoles#Affiliation semantics