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Slot: delegated_by

Delegation is the assignment of authority and responsibility to an agent (by itself or by another agent) to carry out a specific activity as a delegate or representative, while the agent it acts on behalf of retains some responsibility for the outcome of the delegated work. For example, a student acted on behalf of his supervisor, who acted on behalf of the department chair, who acted on behalf of the university; all those agents are responsible in some way for the activity that took place but we do not say explicitly who bears responsibility and to what degree.

URI: dlflatprov:delegated_by Alias: delegated_by

Inheritance

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
AgentMixin Something that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place... yes
Agent Something that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place... no

Properties

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://concepts.datalad.org/s/flat-prov/unreleased

Mappings

Mapping Type Mapped Value
self dlflatprov:delegated_by
native dlflatprov:delegated_by
exact prov:actedOnBehalfOf

LinkML Source

name: delegated_by
description: Delegation is the assignment of authority and responsibility to an agent
  (by itself or by another agent) to carry out a specific activity as a delegate or
  representative, while the agent it acts on behalf of retains some responsibility
  for the outcome of the delegated work. For example, a student acted on behalf of
  his supervisor, who acted on behalf of the department chair, who acted on behalf
  of the university; all those agents are responsible in some way for the activity
  that took place but we do not say explicitly who bears responsibility and to what
  degree.
notes:
- This is PROV-O's "acted_on_behalf_of", which is a short-cut property -- "Delegation"
  also identifies an agent.
- naming is different for homogeneity with the other slots
from_schema: https://concepts.datalad.org/s/flat-prov/unreleased
exact_mappings:
- prov:actedOnBehalfOf
rank: 1000
is_a: influenced_by
alias: delegated_by
domain_of:
- AgentMixin
range: Thing