A name by which the person is known other than her given name and/or full name.
Many individuals use a short form of their name, a 'middle' name as a 'first' name or a professional name. It is not the role of the Alternative Name property to record nick names, pet names or other 'familiar names' that will be of no consequence in public sector data exchange. Furthermore, some individuals have more than one legal name in which case the full name property should be used multiple times. Alternative Name gives a means of recording names by which an individual is generally known, or professionally known, even though such names are no more than secondary from a legal point of view.
| type | Property |
| label | Alternative Name (PersonAlternativeName) |
| rdfs:range | String |
| Title | Alternative Name (PersonAlternativeName) |
| definition | A name by which the person is known other than her given name and/or full name. |
| Description | Many individuals use a short form of their name, a 'middle' name as a 'first' name or a professional name. It is not the role of the Alternative Name property to record nick names, pet names or other 'familiar names' that will be of no consequence in public sector data exchange. Furthermore, some individuals have more than one legal name in which case the full name property should be used multiple times. Alternative Name gives a means of recording names by which an individual is generally known, or professionally known, even though such names are no more than secondary from a legal point of view. |
| Type | Property |
| has internal identifier | PersonAlternativeName |
| sample | "Paddy Ashdown", "Lord Ashdown" (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon) |
| Is Part Of | Core Vocabulary |
| Person |