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Identification

A form of identification associated with its holder and some issuing country. This can be used for national ID cards, voter enrollments, and similar instruments.

Relations to other schemata

Identification has the following relations to other schemata in the model:

Relation Schemata
Properties inherited from: Interval
More precise schemata: Passport

Identification has multiple properties to describe its data. Some properties are inherited from its parent schemata.

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This property is used to compute a caption for the entity.

This property is a featured property, which means in UI applications it should be shown with higher information hierarchy.

This property is a matchable property and can be used in matching systems to find similar entities.

This property is a hidden property and should not be rendered in UI applications.

Name Label Type
Identification:number Document number identifier
Identification:country Country country
Identification:type Type string
Identification:holder Identification holder entity
Interval:startDate Start date
The date of issue of a document, or on which a relationship, sanctioned status, occupation, etc. started
date
Interval:endDate End date
The date of expiry of a document, or on which a relationship, sanctioned status, occupation, etc. ended
date
Identification:authority Authority
Government body issuing the identification document
string
Interval:date Date
Date associated with an Interval that isn't explicitly its startDate or endDate (prefer those when available)
date
Interval:summary Summary text
Interval:description Description text
Interval:recordId Record ID
Identifier of a record upon which this link is based
string
Interval:sourceUrl Source link
A deep link to a source website for the profile
url
Interval:proof Source document entity
Interval:publisher Publishing source string
Interval:publisherUrl Publishing source URL url
Interval:alephUrl Aleph URL url
Interval:namesMentioned Detected names name
Interval:indexText Index text text
Interval:modifiedAt Modified on
The date on which the entity (like the ID document) was modified, not to be confused with an internal 'last updated'-style metadata field
date
Interval:retrievedAt Retrieved on
Retrieval date generated by a data gathering system, not to be confused with an internal 'first found'-style metadata field
date

How to use it in a graph or timeline

FtM has well-defined semantics for different representations of entities, for example in a network graph or in a timeline.

When using this schema in a graph representation, it should be represented as a node.

Semantic Property
Temporal start Interval:startDate
Interval:date
Temporal end Interval:endDate