The following question(s) were asked in the Collection Management Systems Webinar and will be answered here.
Wouter Addink: How to specify which organization is responsible for a specimen - not necessarily the owner
Response:
In the Unified Model, organizations are Agents and roles for them can be instantiated for any concept using AgentRoles. Thus, with the specimen being a MaterialEntity and therefore also an Entity, one could have as many EntityAgentRoles as desired. For example, given the following MaterialEntity (“Specimen1”):
materialEntityID: Specimen1
materialEntityType: taxidermy mount
which is also an Entity by definition because it is a subtype:
entityID: Specimen1
entityType: MaterialEntity
is owned by museum “Org1”:
agentID: Org1
agentType: museum
with that role captured by an EntityAgentRole:
agentID: Org1
entityID: Specimen1
entityAgentRole: owner
entityAgentRoleBegan: 1908-08-05
entityAgentRoleEnded:
while it has been on loan to museum “Org2” where it is on display and whose responsibility it is:
agentID: Org2
agentType: museum
as captured by another EntityAgentRole:
agentID: Org2
entityID: Specimen1
entityAgentRole: custodian
entityAgentRoleBegan: 2009-02-12
entityAgentRoleEnded: