Corrections to Supporting Class: Person

[leightonlc]

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Name: Leighton Christiansen

Affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Type of issue: Class & Properties

Issue: Corrections to Supporting Class: Person

• https://doi-do.github.io/dcat-us/#properties-for-person
• https://github.com/DOI-DO/dcat-us/blob/main/docs/examples/person.jsonld
• https://github.com/DOI-DO/dcat-us/blob/main/docs/examples/person.ttl
• The Supporting Class: Person contains the following 4 Properties: Name (for Full Name); First Name; Given Name; and Member Of. The problem is that "First Name" and "Given Name" represent the identical part of a name. In my case my First Name is "Leighton," and my Given Name is "Leighton." To capture a Person's last name, we need either Property "Last Name" or "Family Name." I am not sure if what was intended was to use the Properties pair "First Name" and "Last Name" or the pair "Given Name" and "Family Name."

Recommended change(s): _Please select the Property Pair that was intended so that Person may capture both the First Name and the Last Name. My recommendation is for "Given Name & Family Name" as those are already in use in the Class "Contact" https://doi-do.github.io/dcat-us/#properties-for-contact. Then please update the documentation at the Candidate Recommendation Snapshot at https://doi-do.github.io/dcat-us/#properties-for-person as well as the JSONLD and TTL Examples in GitHub at https://github.com/DOI-DO/dcat-us/blob/main/docs/examples/person.jsonld and https://github.com/DOI-DO/dcat-us/blob/main/docs/examples/person.ttl. Thank you!