Description of Person

Name (required)

• Term: otgevents:title

• Equivalent Property: dcterms:title

• Data Type: Text

• Description: A name given to the record

• Usage: A title for the person record. Usually a combination of given name and family name, if available, in direct order. Use Unnamed when the source identifies a person but does not include a name. If a family name can be inferred, add it and then add an annotation pointing to the source.

• Input: Single

Identifier

• Term: otgevents:identifier

• Equivalent Property: dcterms:identifier

• Data Type: Text

• Description: A unique identifier

• Usage: Developed internally by institutions to ease searching and location of people, especially unnamed individuals or those with only a given name.

• Input: Multiple

Given Name

• Term: otgevents:givenName

• Equivalent Property: schema:givenName

• Data Type: Text

• Description: Given name. In the U.S., the first name of a person.

• Usage:

• Input: Single

Family Name

• Term: otgevents:familyName

• Equivalent Property: schema:familyName

• Data Type: Text

• Description: Family name. In the U.S., the last name of a person.

• Usage: If the family name is unknown, leave this field blank. If a family name can be inferred, add it and then add an annotation pointing to the source.

• Input: Single

Alternate Name

• Term: otgevents:alternativeName

• Equivalent Property: schema:alternateName

• Data Type: Text

• Description: An alias for the person.

• Usage: Can include nicknames or any other variant form of name that the person is known by.

• Input: Multiple

Birth Date

• Term: otgevents:birthDate

• Equivalent Property: schema:birthDate

• Data Type: Timestamp or Text

• Description: Date of birth.

• Usage: Be as specific as possible, using the finest grained date specifier available from day to month to year.

• Input: Single

Death Date

• Term: otgevents:deathDate

• Equivalent Property: schema:deathDate

• Data Type: Timespace or Text

• Description: Date of death.

• Usage: Be as specific as possible, using the finest grained date specifier available from day to month to year.

• Input: Single

Sex

• Term: otgevents:sex

• Equivalent Property:

• Data Type: Sex Controlled Vocabulary (Enslaved)

• Description: Biological sex of the person as designated in or derived from source document(s), often based on observations by a third party of the individual's physical characteristics.

• Usage: This can be directly noted in the document or inferred based on other data in the sources, such as gendered names or titles.

• Input: Single

Occupation

• Term: otgevents:hasOccupation

• Equivalent Property: schema:hasOccupation

• Data Type: Occupation Controlled Vocabulary (Enslaved)

• Description: Skills or trade of the person being described.

• Usage: If the person was active in multiple areas, use multiple instances of this field to include as many controlled vocabulary terms as necessary.

• Input: Multiple

Description (required)

• Term: otgevents:description

• Equivalent Property: dcterms:description

• Data Type: Text

• Description: Narrative description and/or transcription of the entity.

• Usage: This field may include information about disambiguation.

• Input: Multiple

Keywords

• Term: otgevents:keywords

• Equivalent property: schema:keywords

• Data type: Text

• Description: Keywords to further specify the entity being described.

• Usages: Use one input for each word, rather than a comma-separated string.

• Input: Multiple