YES

(either formulation, both work well in English)

Pat Riva
Associate University Librarian, Collection Services
Concordia University
Vanier Library (VL-301-61)
7141 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H4B 1R6
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Subject: [Crm-sig] issue 615 --E VOTE


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Dear all,

Please reply by yes or no to the proposal formally made at the 61st SIG 
meeting, namely to add the clause marked in boldface to the scope note of E13 
Attribute Assignment.
The reason that the group would not vote on it at the time, is that it was made 
at the meeting.

You have until the end of next week (23 January 2026) to vote on it.

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E13 Attribute Assignment
Subclass of: E7 Activity

Superclass of: E14 Condition Assessment, E15 Identifier Assignment, E16 
Measurement, E17 Type Assignment

Scope note: This class comprises the actions of making assertions about one 
property of an object or any single relation between two items or concepts. The 
property or relation does not have to be part of the CRM. The type of the 
property asserted to hold between two items or concepts can be described by the 
property P177 assigned property of type (is type of property assigned): E55 
Type.

For example, the class describes the actions of people making propositions and 
statements during certain scientific/scholarly procedures, e.g., the person and 
date when a condition statement was made, an identifier was assigned, the 
museum object was measured, etc. Which kinds of such assignments and statements 
need to be documented explicitly in structures of a schema rather than free 
text, depends on whether this information should be accessible by structured 
queries.

This class allows for the documentation of how the respective assignment came 
about, and whose opinion it was. Note that all instances of properties 
described in a knowledge base are the opinion of someone. Per default, they are 
the opinion of the team maintaining the knowledge base. This fact must not 
individually be registered for all instances of properties provided by the 
maintaining team, because it would result in an endless recursion of whose 
opinion was the description of an opinion. Therefore, the use of instances of 
E13 Attribute Assignment marks the fact that the maintaining team is in general 
neutral to the validity of the respective assertion, but registers someone 
else’s opinion and how it came about.

All properties assigned in such an action can also be seen as directly relating 
the respective pair of items or concepts. Multiple use of instances of E13 
Attribute Assignment may possibly lead to a collection of contradictory values.

Examples:

  *   the examination of MS Sinai Greek 418 by Nicholas Pickwoad in November 
2003 (Honey & Pickwoad, 2010)
  *   the assessment of the current ownership of Martin Doerr’s silver cup in 
February 1997 (fictitious)

In first-order logic: E13(x) ⇒ E7(x)

Properties:
P140 assigned attribute to (was attributed by): E1 CRM Entity
P141 assigned (was assigned by): E1 CRM Entity
P177 assigned property of type (is type of property assigned): E55 Type

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All the best,

--
Eleni Tsouloucha
Philologist - MA Linguistics & Language Technologies
Center for Cultural Informatics
Information Systems Laboratory - Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)

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