Position

A post, role or position within an organization or body. This describes a position one or more people may occupy and not the occupation of the post by a specific individual at a specific point in time. 'subnationalArea' should be used to further restrict the scope of the position. It should not simply represent some regional aspect of the role - e.g. the constituency of a national member of parliament - when their legislative jurisdiction is nationwide.

• Position is a matchable schema and can be used for matching and cross-referencing.

Relations to other schemata

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

Relation	Schemata
Properties inherited from:	Thing
More precise schemata:	-

Position 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
Thing:name	Name	name
Thing:country	Country	country
Position:subnationalArea	Subnational jurisdiction name or code	string
Position:organization	Organization	entity
Position:inceptionDate	Inception date	date
Position:dissolutionDate	Dissolution date	date
Position:numberOfSeats	Total number of seats	number
Thing:summary	Summary	text
Thing:description	Description	text
Thing:alias	Alias	name
Thing:previousName	Previous name	name
Thing:weakAlias	Weak alias A relatively broad or generic alias that should not be used for matching in screening systems. It may still may be useful for identification purposes, particularly in confirming a possible match triggered by other identifier information.	name
Thing:sourceUrl	Source link	url
Thing:publisher	Publishing source	string
Thing:publisherUrl	Publishing source URL	url
Thing:alephUrl	Aleph URL	url
Thing:wikipediaUrl	Wikipedia Article	url
Thing:wikidataId	Wikidata ID	identifier
Thing:keywords	Keywords	string
Thing:topics	Topics	topic
Thing:address	Address	address
Thing:addressEntity	Address	entity
Thing:program	Program Regulatory program or sanctions list on which an entity is listed.	string
Thing:programId	Program ID	identifier
Thing:notes	Notes	text
Thing:proof	Source document	entity
Thing:indexText	Index text	text
Thing:createdAt	Created at	date
Thing:modifiedAt	Modified on	date
Thing:retrievedAt	Retrieved on	date
Position:occupancies	Position holders	entity
Thing:noteEntities	Notes	entity
Thing:risks	Risks	entity
Thing:sanctions	Sanctions	entity
Thing:candidateSimilars	Similar to this	entity
Thing:unknownLinkTo	Linked to	entity
Thing:unknownLinkFrom	Linked from	entity
Thing:matchSimilars	Similar as this	entity
Thing:documentedBy	Documents	entity
Thing:courtCase	Court cases	entity

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	Position:inceptionDate
Temporal end	Position:dissolutionDate