Re: Birth is an Event, not just one dimensional fields applying to a single Person

Hi Jason & the Schema working group!

While I don't have the hard technical expertise to speak to the difficulty
of implementation, I would note that birthDate, birthProcedure,
birthCertificate, and possibly birthDoctor could be viewed as Personal
Health Information in some circumstances. This would make the data
protected and possibly private, which this schema might hamper legal
compliance of HIPAA for. Additionally, in the case of adoption, divorce,
and child emancipation, the child might not want this information machine
readable by default without their consent.

Happy to unpack the PHI/PII concerns or assist in any way I can.
Sincerely, a SEO who used to work in healthcare,

Tarik Najeddine
SEO Director, Albert
New York City, NY
(917) 723-6341
tarik.najeddine@albert.com

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:07 PM <jason@massiveimpressions.com> wrote:

> When I record the information around birthDate and birthLocation,
> publishing the Person schema, it doesn’t feel complete. There’s a lot of
> information that’s valuable yet not represented in the schema. I propose
> that the birth of Person(s) be represented with a new field, new Property,
> under Person, one that has the Expected Type BirthEvent, a specific type of
> Event. A birth is a super-significant event in the creation of a Person,
> not some flat piece of information lightly recorded.
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> Properties would include:
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> birthedPerson – Person – could be one or multiple in the event of twins
>
> birthLocation
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> birthOrganization – Organization – the hospital, medical center or simply
> the establishment in the event of an unplanned place of birth
>
> birthDate
>
> birthDoctor – Person – head medical professional presiding over the birth
>
> birthTechnician – Person(s) – can include nurses or other people on staff
> who witnessed or participated in the event
>
> birthCertificate – MediaObject (?) – Document (?)
>
> birthProcedute – CreativeWork
>
> biologicalFather – Person – should only be one but could be hypothetically
> multiple instances of Person when it’s not certain – this is admittedly a
> big can of worms but we should start out simple
>
> biologicalMother – Person – hopefully this can be narrowed down to a
> single instance of Person
>
> legalParent – Person – a person identified as a legal parent where the
> local authority doesn’t require identifying as either the mother or the
> father.
>
> legalFather – Person – in the case where an identified Person has legal
> fatherhood over the birthed Person(s)
>
> legalMother – Person – in the case where an identified Person has legal
> motherhood over the birthed Person(s)
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> Additional Extension to Person : birthname – text
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>
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> What else? I suppose you could get funky and put cultural specific values
> in like Godmother/Godfather, but I’m trying to nail down the cross
> cultural, universal type of stuff first.
>
> I think this is important to account for the different facets of
> parenthood and the fact that often Persons are born during the same event
> (twins etc)
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>
> I look forward to your collaboration.
>
>
>
> -JP
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> Jason Pelish
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