Birth certificate: givenName and familyName about sdg-sandbox HOT 4 CLOSED

From what is mentioned in issue #37 , for the givenName we could have cases with 1,2, or even 3 given names.
The same apply probably and for the familyName.

If for some member states there are legal validity issues that require knowledge of the order of the names (e.g if the second or the first familyName is missing) then I cannot see any othe solution than extending the Person entity to support at least 3 fields for the given and family names.

Another approach would be to change the data type to an array of strings e.g
['Johan', 'Sebastian'] for givenName
['Cervantes', 'Saavedra'] for familyName
['Cervantes' , ''] for cases in which the second family name does not exists or is not specified.

However, I'm not sure how we should deal with the hypens and prefixed in this approach (e.g van , de , etc..)

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Thanks for you comment @thodoris.

We propose to make a reference to the eIDAS metadata schema, which uses the approach from Core Person: one field for first name(s) (givenName) – as many as you like as one string – and one field for last name(s) (familyName) – again, as many as you like as one string, including prefixes, infixes, postfixes, hyphenated names etc.

In SDG, as in eIDAS, names are a means to identify a person.

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Ingrid (FIN): fine, in this case please be prepared to match a person/ID successfully and return data e.g. "Ari-Pekka Olavi Eemeli Lahtinen-Rantanen" to be returned when the search word is "Lahtinen". Or do you mean to say, that in such a case this person will be matched and found ONLY if you put the last name, the whole last name exactly as it is written here "Lahtinen-Rantanen"? again, speculating here since we do not have a list of MS procedures that would use birth certificate as an input and no info about search criteria either. as a hint, the name goes like this : given name1= Ari-Pekka, given name2=Olavi, given name3= Eemeli, family name=Lahtinen-Rantanen.

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@ibodor thanks again for your comment. Identification and names issues have been addressed in our Author's view report following the first formal SDG review cycle. I'd advise you to have a look specifically at issues 15,16 and 17 in the report.

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