birth_certificate_tables.md

Birth Evidence

Entities

Birth Evidence

Definition: Official document or data proving the Birth of a Child.

Source: Public documents forms

attribute	expected type	definition	cardinality	code list
identifier	Identifier	An unambiguous reference to the Birth Evidence.	[0..1]	N/A
issue date	Date	The date on which the Birth Evidence was issued.	[1..1]	N/A
certifies birth	Birth	Attesting in a formal way that the Birth is true.	[1..1]	N/A
issuing authority	Public Organisation	A Public Organisation with official authority in charge of issuing the Birth Evidence.	[1..1]	N/A
issuing place	Location	The Location where the Birth Evidence was issued.	[0..1]	N/A

Birth

Definition: The event indicating the moment a Child emerges from the body of another Person, i.e. start of life.

Source: Public documents forms

attribute	expected type	definition	cardinality	code list
child	Child	The Person who is born at the Birth.	[1..1]	N/A
parent	Parent	The Parent of the Child.	[0..2]	N/A

Child

Definition: A Person of any age, who is a son or daughter.

Subclass of: Person

Source: ISA² Core Person Vocabulary

attribute	expected type	definition	cardinality	code list
date of birth	Date	The day on which the Child was born.	[1..1]	N/A
place of birth	Location	The Location where the Child was born.	[1..1]	N/A
sex	Code	The chromosomal state, and reproductive organs and structures of a Person that allows them to be distinguished as female or male.	[1..1]	Human Sex

Parent

Definition: One of the two Persons who are jointly the cause of the Child's Birth, i.e. natural parent.

Subclass of: Person

Source: ISA² Core Person Vocabulary

attribute	expected type	definition	cardinality	code list
date of birth	Date	The day on which the Parent was born.	[0..1]	N/A
sex	Code	The chromosomal state, and reproductive organs and structures of a Person that allows them to be distinguished as female or male.	[0..1]	Human Sex
place of birth	Location	The Location where the Parent was born.	[0..1]	N/A

Person

Definition: An individual natural person who may be dead or alive, but not imaginary.

Source:ISA² Core Person Vocabulary

attribute	expected type	definition	cardinality	code list
identifier	Identifier	The identifier relation is used to link a Person to any formally issued Identifier for that Person.	[0..*]	N/A
given name	Text	A given name, or multiple given names, are the denominator(s) that identify an individual within a family. These are given to a Person by his or her parents at birth or may be legally recognised as 'given names' through a formal process. All given names are ordered in one field so that, for example, the given name for Johann Sebastian Bach is “Johann Sebastian”.	[1..*]	N/A
family name	Text	A family name is usually shared by members of a family. This attribute also carries prefixes or suffixes which are part of the family name, e.g. “de Boer”, “van de Putte”, “von und zu Orlow”. Multiple family names, such as are commonly found in Hispanic countries, are recorded in the single family name field so that, for example, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's family name would be recorded as "de Cervantes Saavedra".	[1..*]	N/A
citizenship	Jurisdiction	The citizenship relationship links a Person to a Jurisdiction that has conferred citizenship rights on the individual such as the right to vote, to receive certain protection from the community or the issuance of a passport. Multiple citizenships are recorded as multiple instances of the citizenship relationship.	[0..*]	N/A

Jurisdiction

Definition: The authority that an official organisation has, to make legal decisions about somebody/something.

Source: ISA² Core Person Vocabulary

attribute	expected type	definition	cardinality	code list
name	Text	The name is simply a string that identifies the Jurisdiction, typically a country, with or without a language tag.	[1..*]	N/A
id	URI	The value for the id property is a URI for that Jurisdiction.	[0..1]	Country Addition of stateless concept needed

Public Organisation

Definition: Any organisation that is defined as being part of the public sector by a legal framework at any level.

Source: ISA² Core Public Organisation Vocabulary

attribute	expected type	definition	cardinality	code list
preferred label	Text	As defined in the ORG Ontology, a preferred label is used to provide the primary, legally recognised name of the organisation. An organisation may only have one such name in any given language. Primary names may be provided in multiple languages with multiple instances of the preferred label property.	[1..*]	N/A
identifier	Identifier	Many organisations are referred to by an acronym or some other identifier. For example, among the EU institutions, the ECB is the identifier for the European Central Bank, OLAF for the European Anti-Fraud Office, and so on. These are formally recognised by the European Commission which provides a list of such acronyms. Analogous lists should be used in other contexts.	[0..*]	N/A

Location

Definition: An identifiable geographic place or named place.

Source: ISA² Core Location Vocabulary

Given that both attributes are optional, at least one of the attributes must be provided.

attribute	expected type	definition	cardinality	code list
geographic name	Text	A geographic name is a proper noun applied to a spatial object. The INSPIRE Data Specification on Geographical Names [INGN] provides a detailed model for describing a 'named place', including methods for providing multiple names in multiple scripts.	[0..*]	N/A
geographic identifier	URI	A URI that identifies the Location.	[0..1]	GeoNames