Enhancement - Landholders should be Agents

[Jegelewicz]

         Half of this code table is Agents - https://arctos.database.museum/info/ctDocumentation.cfm?table=ctlandholder

Perhaps this needs splitting?

Landholder:general (the code table) LANDHOLDER GENERAL	Documentation	Metadata
city [ link ]	A geographic unit defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks.
county [ link ]	A geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes.
land grant [ link ]	A gift of real estate – land or its use privileges – made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service
private [ link ]	Property owned by non-governmental legal entities.
public [ link ]	A portion of land held by central or local government.
state [ link ]	Land held and administered by state government.
tribal [ link ]	Land held and administered by a federally recognized Native American tribal nation under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
unknown [ link	Unknown landholder status

Landholder:specific (VALUE IS an agent) the below get removed from the code table and added as agents

LANDHOLDER GENERAL	Documentation	Metadata
Bankhead-Jones Land Use Lands [ link ]	Lands acquired by the United States under the Bankhead–Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937 and managed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management management.
US Army Corps of Engineers [ link ]	An engineer formation of the United States Army
US Bureau of Land Management [ link ]	An agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering federal lands.
US Bureau of Reclamation [ link ]	A federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management.
US Department of Defense [ link ]	An executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.
US Department of Energy [ link ]	A cabinet-level department of the United States Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material.
US Fish and Wildlife Service [ link ]	An agency of the United States Government within the United States Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats.
US Forest Service [ link ]	An agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's national forests and grasslands.
US National Park Service [ link ]	An agency of the federal government of the United States that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
US National Wildlife Refuge System [ link ]	A designation for certain protected land areas of the United States managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

OR (crazy idea!) could we add something to the agents - landholder type (the code table) and create generic agents for the generic landholders?

Originally posted by @Jegelewicz in https://github.com/ArctosDB/arctos/issues/6470#issuecomment-1613461779

[Jegelewicz]

Agents already exist for most of these. I added the link to the agent in the code table and a link to the code table in the agents

[mkoo]

I like this in general (makes sense!) but not to introduce complications, some of the land holders are actually types of land rights like the Bankhead-Jones or Wildlife Refuge System which are administered through one fed agency or another. (also owner and administrator of lands are not always the same).

[Jegelewicz]

, some of the land holders are actually types of land rights like the Bankhead-Jones or Wildlife Refuge System

OR (crazy idea!) could we add something to the agents - landholder type (the code table) and create generic agents for the generic landholders?

[dustymc]

create generic agents for the generic landholders

Pretty hard "no" from me - "the public" (or "depends who you ask" or ...) are indefensible stretches of the 'identifiable human-based entity' datatype.

[mkoo]

yea I agree with Dusty on this -- what is a generic agent anyway?! if it has a profile, not generic by definition. We can have a verbatim agent for that.