Identity

Description:

A litigant actor may well have multiple identities, one "real" and one or more alias identities.

Attributes:

• • Type- indicates Real or Alias. Name-based web service queries may find a case based on an alias name, so this attribute helps distinguish such "hits".

  • ID- this sequence/ordinal number .  This corresponds to each name (real or alias).  If more than one identity/name is to be retained, this should be used as the key for each.  Fr performance reasons, this has a composite value with a required structure using special delimiters:

    • I (Identity)

    • A sequence/ordinal

  • The "real" identity should always be Identity I0

  • Name attributes

    • FullName- this is the only name data which is used, and thus the only one required.  The format is: LastName, FirstName [MiddleInitialOrMiddleName].  Example: SMITH, JAMES M JR

    • FirstName

    • MiddleName

    • LastName

    • Prefix

    • Suffix

  • Gender- provided to help confirm identity on name-only searches.

  • DateOfBirth- if the search was based on date of birth, search hits will contain at least one identity with that DOB.

  • Other demographics

    • Height

    • HeightMeasurementUnit

    • Weight

    • WeightMeasurementUnit

    • EyeColor

    • HairColor

    • ScarsMarksTattoos

    • PlaceOfBirth

    • Ethnicity

    • Citizenship

    • MaritalStatus

  • EntityAcronym- not used

  • EntityType- not used

Children:

Examples:

Notes: