Artificial Agents

Frequently asked: Cartoon characters, performing animals, and the like

Examples

Asterix[1], Barbie[2], Bernd das Brot[3], Godzilla[4], Krteček[5], Mickey Mouse[6], Mister Ed[7], R2D2[8], Les Shadoks[9]

Relevance

Often asked for by cataloguers and by users of filmographic data.

A type of Agent?

First and foremost, this appears to be a question of the nature of these creations. Can they qualify as Agents because they appear to be capable of acting in certain ways?

From the EN 15907 definition of Agent:

"... an entity that is involved in the creation, realization, curation or exploitation of a Cinematographic Work"

For some philosophical concepts of agents and actions, see [10].

In drama, a fictitious character would be considered as part of the subject of the work.

Approaches in filmography

Any known?

General modelling approaches

The Vocabulary Mapping Framework (VMF) defines an entity named 'Anthropomorph':

vmf:Anthropomorph_Anthropomorph
  rdfs:subPropertyOf 
     vmf:ImaginaryAnimateEntity_ImaginaryAnimateEntity. 

vmf:Anthropomorph 
  vmf:HasDefinition 
    "An Entity that is not a Human but which is attributed with roles or
    characteristics of a Human.". 

vmf:CreateAnthropomorph 
  vmf:HasDefinition 
    "To Create an Anthropomorph.". 
  vmf:HasPrimitiveSemantics 
    "Anthropomorph: an entity which is not a Human (such as an imaginary 
    cartoon character representing a talking tree) may have the characteristics 
    of a Human Being.". 
  vmf:HasDifferentiae 
    vmf:PrimitiveSemantics. 
  vmf:HasExamples 
    "Mickey Mouse; Darth Vader; Lassie.".

vmf:CreatorOfAnthropomorph 
  vmf:HasDefinition "A Creator of an Anthropomorph.".