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# person

This property references a [Person ](https://schema.org/Person)item which represents the persistent identity of one or more ContributingPerson items.

The value of this property is expected to be one of the types:\
[schema:Person](https://schema.org/Person)<br>

\[WIP: Bibframe property [instanceOf](https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/docs/bibframe-relationships.html) will be used to deal with longitudinal studies where a person will have different properties (ages, social status and others) at different times, but we want to tie it back to a common ID (which may still be anonymized)]