Class: Delegation

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.@en

URI: linkml_prov:Delegation

Parents

• is_a: AgentInfluence

Referenced by class

• None qualifiedDelegation _OPT Delegation

Attributes

Own

• hadActivity _OPT
  • range: Activity

Inherited from AgentInfluence:

• agent _OPT
  • range: Agent
• hadRole _OPT
  • range: Role
• influencer _OPT
  • range: Thing

Other properties

Mappings:		prov:Delegation
Comments:		An instance of prov:Delegation provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:actedOnBehalfOf relation from a performing prov:Agent to some prov:Agent for whom it was performed. For example, :mixing prov:wasAssociatedWith :toddler . :toddler prov:actedOnBehalfOf :mother; prov:qualifiedDelegation [ a prov:Delegation; prov:entity :mother; :foo :bar ].@en