UK Government Data Standards Catalogue

Metadata Value
Data Element

Person Full Name

Is Part Of
Has Parts  
Version 1.0 
Status Release 
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Date Agreed 1 January 2002
UML diagram Person Name UML diagram

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Name

Person Full Name

Description The full name of a person. This is an unstructured concatenation of some or all of the Person Title, Person Given Name, Person Family Name and Person Name Suffix elements, or other elements that make up a person's full name.
Business Format Max 70 Characters
Element Type Data Type
XML Schema
View whole schema document Person DescriptiveTypes as XML
View definition PersonFullNameType as HTML
Validations
1. Any allowable character from UNICODE set of characters.
2. Each element of the name must be separated by a space.
3. Consecutive spaces are not allowed.
Value
DefaultValue
Owner DTG
Based On
Verification
Comment
  • This standard is for use where it is not necessary to process the individual elements of a person's name and the structure is unknown.