Identification card  

Ausweis   (german)

used for: Identity document, Identity certificate, Identification cards, ID cards, ID card

also used for: Passport

Private or official document that represents the identity of the holder and, where appropriate, is combined with findings by a competent body that certain legal characteristics or other entitlements linked to the person of the holder exist.

Related Terms

• Biometrics  
• Electronic identification  
• User access control  

Subject Categories

• N.04.05 Domestic politics and legal policy  
• P.10.03 Electronic Products  

Links to other Thesauri and Vocabularies

=	Ausweis   (from GND)
>	Personalausweis   (from GND)
=	identity document   (from Wikidata)
=	Identity document   (from DBpedia)

Persistent Identifier (for bookmarking and linking)

• http://zbw.eu/stw/descriptor/30399-2