Community:NCore/Model/Objects/Agent

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Contents [hide] 1 Overview 2 Core Components 2.1 Properties 2.2 Relationships 2.3 Datastreams

Overview

Agent objects represents an institution, individual, group, application, or other entity providing information to the NDR. Agent objects indicate the source of information such as metadata, resources, or relationships.

Core Components

All components are optional unless indicated otherwise. Components from other namespaces or models are not represented here.

Properties

• An Identifier required. Identifiers may be one of the following:
  • hasResourceHOST - Identifies an organization as a hostname on the WWW.
  • hasResourceOTHER - Other identifier.
  • hasResourceUSER - Identifies a human individual.

Relationships

• memberOf - indicates that this Agent is a member of an Aggregator.

Datastreams

• PublicKey (From Authorization model) - Use by repository authentication protocol. Indicates the Agent's public key. API requests are signed with this Agent's private key.