Folks, While looking at the existing scope notes for the Actor entity, I noticed that the scope notes for the Actors Hierarchy would also need to be revised:
Actors Hierarchy [** Current Scope Note **] All entities in this hierarchy are instances of the metaclass "Actor Type". Until now, only one subclass is defined, the physical person. As this has a physical nature as well, it is listed already under physical objects (In a passive sense, as patient, mummy etc.). Here in the future, all kinds of social organizations should be characterized. [** Proposed replacement Scope Note **] All entities in this hierarchy are instances of the metaclass "Actor Type". Actors are people, either individually or in groups, that can have the potential to perform intentional actions of their own volition. There are two subclasses of Actor, Person and Groups, used to distinguish between individual human beings and identifiable groups of people. Person is also a subclass of Biological Object. The Groups class has a further subclass, Legal Body, used to identify groups that are identifiable as entities in the legal sense. E39 Actor [** Current Scope Note **] People, either individuals or a groups of persons, or organisations, under the aspect of their role in activities. E.g. The ISO central committe, the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, Monet, Me. An informal group, such as a school of artists, may acquire an identity and perform actions without ever becoming an officially established legal entity. Such cases should be documented as instances of Actors, using an appropriate sub type. [** Proposed replacement Scope Note **] Actors are people, either individually or in groups, that have the potential to perform intentional actions for which they can be held responsible. Examples include the ISO Central Committee, the Benaki Museum, the Fauvists, and Pablo Picasso. The CRM does not attempt to model the inadvertent acts of actors. Individual people should be documented as instances of E21 Person, whereas groups should be documented as instances of either E74 Group or its subclass E40 Legal Body. Comments welcome! Cheers, T. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Gill <> [email protected] Research Libraries Group <> http://www.rlg.org/ 1200 Villa Street, Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Voice: +1 (650) 691-2304 <> Fax: +1 (650) 964-1461
