Agent¶
An agent is something that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place, for the existence of an entity, or for another agent's activity.
Diagram¶
Specializations of Agent¶
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| Organization | An organization is a social or legal institution such as a company, society, etc. |
| Person | Person agents are people. |
| Provenance Service | Type for a generic provenance query service. Mainly for use in RDF provenance query service descriptions, to facilitate discovery in linked data environments. |
| Service Description | Type for a generic provenance query service. Mainly for use in RDF provenance query service descriptions, to facilitate discovery in linked data environments. |
| Software Agent | A software agent is running software. |
Formalization for Agent¶
| Property | Constraint |
|---|---|
| disjointWith | InstantaneousEvent |
Other annotations¶
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| category | starting-point |
| component | agents-responsibility |
| definition | An agent is something that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place, for the existence of an entity, or for another agent's activity. |
| dm | http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-agent |
| n | http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-Agent |