Social and legal qualities of a person

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Description & Use case
This is a very powerful profile. Its classes allow to express the social and legal dimension of a person's life. Activate this profile to record information about:
generic jobs and functions a person of specific people
specific roles, functions and titles of specific people
rights and obligations of specific people
legal status of a specific person at a given moment in time
religious identity of people
Find here the profile description on OntoME.
Hint: This profile is often used in combination with the profiles 
​Biographical basics & family​
​Professional life​
​Interactions, Social Relationships and Memberships of Persons​
Law, rights & obligations
Main classes of this profile
Main classes & properties
Use cases
​Social Quality​
--> use the class social quality to register generic jobs (such as merchant, baker, singer, economist, sailor etc) but also generic functions (such as treasurer, chairman, president etc.).
​Social Quality of an Actor​
--> link a profession or function (recorded as social quality) with a specific individual.
​Social Role​
--> use this class to register specific roles/ functions or titles (such as President of France, King of Spain, Pope, CEO of Microsoft). It is typical that these roles were carried out by different persons over time.
​Social Role Embodiment​
--> link a specific role or function (recorded as social role) with a specific person and add a time span.
​Custom or Law​
--> use the class custom or law, to register an enacted law or set of rules used by custom, which apply to people in a defined area/ jurisdiction. For example the UK inheritance law.
​Legal Individual​
--> use the class legal individual to register types of rights  an individual can acquire, such as the "General Abonnement of Switzerland", which entitles the owner to use any train at any time. Or the annual pass for a gym, giving you entry to the same. Or land titles.
​Holding of a Right or Obligation​
--> designate a specific person as the owner of a specific right (recorded as legal individual), object (recorded as man-made object) or house (recorded as construction) and add a time span. 
--> indicate that a specific person was concerned by a specific law/set of rules (recorded as custom/law).
​Legal Quality (legal status)​
--> use the class legal quality to register different legal statuses (such as Swiss nationality, French nationality, Swiss foreigner residence permit cat. B, Kenyan foreign Nationals status etc.)
​Legal Connotation  (legal status of a specific person)​
--> link a specific legal status (recorded as legal quality) with a specific peson and add a time span.
​Religion or religious denomination​
--> use this class to register denominations of different religious identities such as Catholic, Jewish or Muslim.
​Religious Identity​
--> link a specific denomination of a religious identity   with a specific peson and add a time span.
​Social location of an actor​
--> indicate the residence/domicile of a person
Most common use cases
How to differentiate social quality and social role:
Note that the class social quality is used to characterizes the generic functions and professions a a person had, such as being scientist, baker or treasurer (without any further specifications).
On the other hand, the class social role refers to specific functions and roles that a person embodied during its lifetime, such as being the Director of the University of Padova or the CEO of Microsoft or Treasurer of the Merchant Association of Lausanne. It is typical that over time these roles were carried out by different persons.
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Add generic functions and jobs as social quality
1) register the functions / job titles as social quality
Add all functions and job titles you need via "create a new social quality". 
Examples
Generic jobs: merchant, baker, singer, economist, sailor, salesman, politician, assistant, historian, mathematician, lawyer etc. 
Generic functions: treasurer, chairman, president
Generic family status: widowed, single, married, bâtard, etc.
Generic rank of nobility & aristocracy: noble, knight, lord, gentleman, "homme-lige", etc.
Generic civic status: burghers, citizens, parishioners, etc. [if specific: use legal quality]
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--> Use definition  to clarify the meaning of the Social Quality you are creating!
Hint: Many jobs and functions are already recorded by other projects, you can find & select them in the list on the  right side. This helps to make your data interoperable with other projects!
Alternatively you can use the controlled vocabulary section to define the professions (as social qualities):
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2) link the person and function with the class 'social quality of an actor' via the property 'has social quality'
1) Add "social quality of an actor"
2) Fill in info
A social quality pertains to a person. The easiest way to connect a person with a profession is to open the person's entity card and click on "has social quality". In case you have multiple options, select "social quality of an actor".
Hint: by selection "Social Location of an Actor" you can add information on the residency of a person.
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You can now
fill in the information on the time span (start and/or end date) of the exercise of a profession
and select the appropriate profession from your list
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Add specific functions and roles as "social role"
Example of specific functions
Specific professions: Director of the University of Padova, CEO of Microsoft, 
Specific functions: Treasurer of the Merchant Association of Lausanne, Secretary General of the UN
Specific titles: King of Spain, Duke of Wellington
Specific ranks: Commander of the British 2nd Division
1) register the functions / job titles as social quality
Hint: Many jobs and functions are already recorded by other projects, you can find & select them in the list on the  right side. This helps to make your data interoperable with other projects!
Option 1) Add all functions & job titles you need via "create a new social role".
Option 2) Do the same directly via the controlled vocabulary for "social role"
Option 1
Option 2
2) link the person and function with the class 'social role embodiment' via the property 'embodies'
1) Add "social role embodiment"
2) Fill in info
A social role pertains to a person. The easiest way to connect a person with a function it had is to open the person's entity card and click on "embodies". 
You can now
fill in the information on the time span (start and/or end date) of the exercise of a profession
and select the appropriate specific function from your list
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Inform about the specific right of a person as 'Holding of a Right or Obligation'
When you inform about a specific right or obligation of a person, you can further indicate
the specific right an individual can acquire (Legal Individual)
the generic right group that a specific right belongs to (Holding of a Right Type)
the real estate property to which the right/obligation is linked (Construction)
the physical object (knife, boat) to which the right/obligation is linked (Man-Made Object)
the geographical place to which the right/obligation is linked (Geographical Place )
the law or custom from which the right/obligation emanates/ is derived (Custom or Law)
Legal Individual: The specific right/obligation that an individual can acquire
A legal individual is a specific right or obligation that an individual has per law or has acquired/purchased. These rights and obligations, respectively the right to acquire them are rooted/derived from laws & customs.
Examples:
Right to use the gym, because the person holds an annual entry pass.
Specific land titles
Right to use any train in Switzerland because the person is a holder of the "General Abonnement of Switzerland".
Right to inherit a real estate in Algeria because the person is an Algerian male descendent.
Obligation to participate in military service because the person is a male citizen of Switzerland.
Custom or law: the law or custom from which the right/obligation emanates/ is derived
Laws and customs are a formalized set of rules, valid for a group and its members in a defined area/ jurisdiction, defining rights and obligations of the concerned actors, and rights over or obligations concerning specific things.
A law is generally created by the enactment of legislatures, while common law and custom derive from usage or practice of the people: by common adoption and acquiescence, and by long and unvarying habit, their rules have become compulsory, and acquired the force of a law.
Examples:
UK inheritance law
EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Swiss federal law on military and military administration
the UN Charta
A heritage custom in France in the 17th century
A practical example
Land Ownership in the city of Basel. Indicate:
time span of ownership
the Building owned
the person who owns it
the type of right (right of possession)
the underlying law (Swiss Civil Code)
Inform about the legal status /nationality of a person as 'legal quality'
A legal quality allows to register different legal statuses of persons. A legal status is defined as such by law and coupled to a specific set of rights and obligations. A person can have several statuses at the same time (nationality of one country and residence permit of another) or over time (e.g. change of nationality).
Examples
Swiss nationality
French nationality
Swiss foreigner residence permit category B
Kenyan foreign nationals status
1) add legal statuses your project 
Hint: Many legal statuses are already recorded by other projects, you can find & select them in the list on the  right side. This helps to make your data interoperable with other projects!
Option 1) Add all legal statuses you need via "create a new legal quality".
Option 2) Do the same directly via the controlled vocabulary for "legal quality"
Option 1
Option 2
Hint: You can group your statuses in more generic group by adding types. Manage your types in the controlled vocabulary "legal quality types":
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2) connect a legal status  with a specific person using "legal connotation"
A legal connotation is the legal status of a specific person at a given moment in time. Indicate:
the time span of the validity of this status
the legal status itself (legal quality)
if wished: the larger category it belongs to (legal quality type)
the person having this status
Inform about the religious identity of a person
Religious identity include for example: Catholic, Jewish or Muslim. 
1) add religions to your project 
Hint: Many religions are already recorded by other projects, you can find & select them in the list on the  right side. This helps to make your data interoperable with other projects!
Option 1) Add all religions you need via "create a new religion or religious denominations".
Option 2) Do the same directly via the controlled vocabulary for "religion or religious denominations"
Option 1
Option 2
2) connect a religion with a specific person
Select the "create a new Religious Identity" and indicate:
time span of the validity (if wished)
the religion itself (drop-down list from religions added under step 1)
to whom it belongs
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