A Person in SEEK is someone who participates directly or indirectly in the scientific research described within SEEK. A person may:
- work at one or more Institutions
 - work on one or more Projects
 
A Person can have helped to carry out Investigations, Studies and Assays, and to have been involved in the creation of resources such as DataFles.
A Person has the following associated information:
- The person’s first name
 - The person’s last name
 - A personal description
 - An email address for the Person
 - A URI to a webpage about the Person
 - The ORCID for the Person
 - A list of strings describing the expertise of the Person
 - A list of strings describing the tools that the Person uses
 - The telephone number of the Person, including country code
 - The Skype name of the Person
 
A response for a Person such as that for a Create, Read or Update includes the additional information
- A URI to an image used as the Person’s avatar
 - The Person’s title, made from their first and last name
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A list of the Project positions held by the Person
 - References to the Projects in which the Person is involved
 - References to the Institutions where the Person works
 - References to the Investigations in which the Person is involved
 - References to the Studies in which the Person is involved
 - References to the Assays in which the Person is involved
 - References to the DataFiles associated with the Person
 - References to the Documents associated with the Person
 - References to the Models associated with the Person
 - References to the SOPs associated with the Person
 - References to the Publications associated with the Person
 - References to the Presentations associated with the Person
 - References to the Events associated with the Person
 
Note that in the Person response the email address is encoded in mbox_sha1sum