Dear All,

E17 scope note now:

E17 Type Assignment

Subclass of:    Attribute Assignment

Scope note:     This entity describes the act of scientifically classifying 
some entity,
                an object, a work, an action or whatever. The value of 
classification
                depends critically on general and personal knowledge and the 
scientific
                system used. Therefore the interest lies in the author and date.

Proposed:
Scope note:     This entity describes the act of scientifically classifying 
some entity,
                an object, a work, an action or whatever. The value of 
classification
                depends critically on general and personal knowledge and the 
scientific
                system used. Therefore the interest lies in the author and 
date. This entity
                comprises also the process of "determination", i.e. the 
Systematic and Molecular
                identification of a specimen in biology.
                Example: "first classification of object GE34604 as Lament 
Cloth,
                        October 2, 1998 by I.Dionissiadou".

Martin
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