Entity Information Model

Continuant Entity whose identity is stable over its period of existence. Includes physical entities as well as other kinds of entities from the social, legal and business worlds, including intentional agents.

Archetypable generic description for this entity.

URI to a detailed description of the concrete type of Entity represented by instances of any descendant of this class. For example, a specific archetype of PERSON might be used to represent Employees. This field might then contain a URI pointing to the relevant description of 'employee' within the owning organisation.

Concrete type of entity, such as PERSON, ORGANISATION, etc. Role name, e.g. general practitioner , nurse , private citizen . Taken from inherited name attribute.

Source of relationship, may be understood as 'owner' of relationship.

Type of relationship, such as employment, authority, health provider.

Target of relationship.

Valid time interval for this relationship.

Archetypable generic description for this relationship.

Grouping of individual relationships of a given type. The type may have values like 'parts', 'employees' and so on.

Individual relationships within this group (type).

Entities with physical existence, in the realist sense of BFO. Includes material entities (entities consisting of matter) and physical entities corresponding to voids and spaces created by Material entities.

Equivalent to BFO::Independent Continuant, except that Spatial regions are excluded.

Various kinds of Physical Entity may be used to resolve 'anatomical location', i.e. location on the body of an organism, including (following FMA) anatomical spaces (i.e. cavities) and anatomical structures.

Any entity consisting of physical matter. Synonym for BFO:Material entity.

Material part-of relation from an object to other material objects that are materially connected, e.g. apartment 3-9 within the apartment block 'Mirabeau' at 32 Av. Bento Loyola, Casamarela, Recife.

Excludes contained spaces, sites etc.

An entity that is either a Material entity or materially depends on a Material entity.

Equivalent to BFO:Spatial region.

A three-dimensional Materially-dependent entity that is partially or wholly bounded by a Material Entity. Examples: naturally and partially fiat-defined cavities, holes and spaces.

Descendant types provide examples.

Similar to BFO:Site.

Material part-of relation from an object to other material objects that are materially connected, e.g. apartment 3-9 within the apartment block 'Mirabeau' at 32 Av. Bento Loyola, Casamarela, Recife.

Excludes contained spaces, sites etc.

A geographical site containing (or to contain) built edifices such as a university or hospital. Defined by a boundary, usually found in a civil cadastral system, land register etc.

The facilities within a Site; e.g. departments.

A physical edifice or part thereof, e.g. a building, theatre, ward, room etc normally with a specific business function. May have as sub-parts other Facilities, e.g. individual rooms. May contain other objects.

Synonym for BFO:Object aggregate. Member parts are causally independent Entities - either more Object aggregates, or else Independent objects.

Containment relation between an Object aggregate and other objects located within but not materially part of the aggregate, for example equipment in a room.

Material part-of relation from an object to other material objects that are materially connected, e.g. apartment 3-9 within the apartment block 'Mirabeau' at 32 Av. Bento Loyola, Casamarela, Recife.

Excludes contained spaces, sites etc.

Any part of an Object extension, which is an independent object plus any enclosed spaces.

Material part-of relation from an object to other material objects that are materially connected, e.g. apartment 3-9 within the apartment block 'Mirabeau' at 32 Av. Bento Loyola, Casamarela, Recife.

Excludes contained spaces, sites etc.

Synonym for BFO:object ('Object' is generally a problematic term in a class model, hence 'independent object'). Understood as a causally independent / unified object, following BFO.

Any entity containing DNA and/or RNA and primarily considered as an organism (rather than an object) or part thereof, including:

Note that many objects contain RNA, such as food and most everyday objects on which bacteria can be found, but are not in themselves organisms or considered from a biological point of view. However, in a case of food poisoning determined to have as its source certain food (say, hotel sandwiches), a culture taken from the food and/or human sufferers would be considered a Biological entity.

An artificial (i.e. manufactured) object with a designed function. Encompasses re-usable / long-term use devices (e.g. heart-rate monitor; ultrasound machine, any prosthesis) and consumable items designed to be consumed in use, bandage, catheter, drug, food.

A device is considered to be usable until it is determined to be 'worn out' or otherwise not fit for service. This distinguishes it from a consumable, which is considered to be 'used' after one or a small number of uses (the latter situation should be understood as 'one use').

Some consumable items e.g. nasal drip tubes can be physically 'used' more than once with the same patient for a short period of time, but are replaced for different patients and also over longer periods; typically considered consumable.

Purpose of the artefact.

Portion of undifferentiated material of any kind, including pure elemental materials (e.g. oxygen), compounds, complex molecular substances (e.g. albumin), admixtures, medicines etc.

An entity whose existence and description are within the social world, i.e. civil, business, legal realms.

Physical bearer of this Social entity.

An independent entity in the social world, often known as a 'party'. Includes all business, civil, military and legal entities.

A Social entity is either an Agent or a 'Persona' (of an Agent). An intentional agent can participate in an activity, task, process etc, and make decisions.

Theoretically equivalent to BFO:Realizable entity, i.e. an s-dependent continuant whose bearer is some physical entity - e.g. a material person, or an aggregate of persons making up a 'company'.

However, we tend to treat social entities in business and civic life, and hence administratively and legally, as being independent entities that stand for their bearers. Concretely, we don’t usually represent the related material entity at all.

Identities used by the Party to identify itself. Most commonly, Agents will have identity/ies (at least legal name), but occasionally, a Persona will have identities as well, e.g. stage names, aliases, nicknames.

Contacts for this party.

Legal status of this entity, potentially supported by documentation (references).

TODO: detail

Capabilities of this Party.

Types of formal accountability defined by this Party. For an Organisation, may be understood as organisational post types, i.e. potentially available jobs.

Assets of a Party.

Type_valid: type = name

Contacts_valid: contacts /= Void implies not contacts.is_empty

Relationships_validity: relationships /= Void implies (not relationships.is_empty and then relationships.for_all (r | r.source = self)

Reverse_relationships_validity: reverse_relationships /= Void implies (not reverse_relationships.empty and then reverse_relationships.for_all (item | repository ("demographics").all_party_relationships.has_object (item) and then repository("demographics").all_party_relationships.object (item).target = self))

Is_archetype_root: is_archetype_root

Uid_mandatory: uid /= Void

An intentional real-world agent, equivalent to a mind, either individual or aggregate. An Agent may have one or more Personae, each of which is characterised by one or more Capabilities.

Possibly equivalent to BFO:Role.

Languages which can be used to communicate with this actor, in preferred order of use (if known, else order irrelevant).

Personae of an Agent based on Capabilities. A Persona corresponds to the potential to act in a specific capability-based way, i.e. to have a competency or ability.

For example, the Person Margaret Smith may have a Persona based on her GP (medical) credentials, and another based on her amateur opera singing Capability. She could therefore work as a GP in a health practice and also as a singer in a drama society.

A particular, coherent social presentation of an Agent, corresponding to one or more Capabilities, and usually having its own Contact information.

Example: Dr Jones (a Person) who is a General practitioner (a Persona) works as health centre coordinator (an Accountability) at Park St Health Centre (an Organisation). The employment relationship is the Party relationship whose scoper is the same Accountability.

May be understood as a BFO:Capability, a proposed category between Disposition and Function in BFO.

Capabilities_validity: capabilities /= null and not capabilities.is_empty()

An identity of a Social entity, such as a person name or company name, and which is used by the party to identify itself. Actual structure is archetyped.

The value of the identity. This will usually take the form of a small structure of strings.

Purpose of identity, e.g. legal , stage name, nickname, tribal name, trading name. Taken from value of inherited name attribute.

Purpose_valid: purpose = name

Description of a means of contact of a Party. Actual structure is archetyped.

A set of address alternatives for this contact purpose and time validity combination.

Valid time interval for this contact descriptor.

Purpose for which this contact is used, e.g. mail, daytime phone, etc. Taken from value of inherited name attribute.

Purpose_valid: purpose = name

Address of contact, which may be electronic or geographic.

Archetypable structured address.

Type of address, e.g. electronic, locality. Taken from value of inherited name attribute.

Type_valid: type = name

Capability of an Agent, such as GP, vascular surgeon. Capability is based on credentials, normally professional certifications.

The qualifications of the performer of the role for this capability. This might include professional qualifications and official identifications such as provider numbers etc.

Valid time interval for the credentials of this capability.

An aggregate of multiple parties, that acts as a single agent.

Simple list of members, if not represented by PARTY.relationships.

Any kind of organisational entity that may contain Org units as well as have individual members.

An Org Unit may have as its physical_bearer a Facility.

Organisational sub-parts.

A unit within an Organisation, constituted for a stated purpose, and which outlives any particular activity it undertakes. Membership is fully defined, and changes over time. An Org unit is not a legal organisation in its own right.

Examples: any org unit such as chemistry department of a university; marketing department of a company, treasury part of a government.

A legally constituted body whose existence (in general) outlives the existence of parties that either work for it or own it.

Includes public bureaucracies (e.g. UK NHS), companies, joint ventures, multi-national corporations, sports clubs, NGOs.

Larger organisations generally have parts which may be internal organisational units, or some other cooperative form of group

An agent that is an indivisible 'single mind' which is the seat of agency.

A non-human autonomous individual agent, including robots and AIs.

A human agent.

A relationship between parties. In BFO terms, a Relational quality, i.e. a Quality that s-depends on the parties of the relation.

The Accountability type defining the scope of this relationship; typically a job post.

Source of relationship, may be understood as 'owner' of relationship.

Target of relationship.

Target_valid: target /= Void and then not target.reverse_relationships.has (self)

Source_valid: source /= Void and then source.relationships.has (self)

Type_validity: type = name

Social / business view of one or more physical entities that are available as usable assets to a Party.

Capital equipment asset, including machines and devices, used by a Party.

Assets that are used or consumed in business processes. May be true consumable items like bandages, as well as devices, prostheses, etc that are delivered as part of a procedure.

A real estate entity used by a Party, either a land area and contained buildings and other facilities, or just a building or part thereof.

Normally specified by a street address within the system of the locale (e.g. '72 King St, Hammersmith, London'), and/or via a well-known name (e.g. 'University of Maryland'). Has an associated boundary within a cadastral system defining the land area of the property.

May have a physical_bearer of type Geographical Site or Facility.

Addresses of a Place within one or more address spaces.

A business level service provided by a Party.

TBD: detail.

Record of the utilisation of some Entity, in the role of a specific kind of Resource. Archetypes provide models of kinds of use.

Time at which resource use commenced.

Duration of resource use.

Cost data for this resource use.

Detailed description of this resource utilisation.

Details of an episode of service corresponding to a single logical 'use' of a re-usable Entity, e.g. a Device or Place.

Details of single use and potentially disposal of a consumable artefact.

TODO: possibly need to distinguish between strictly consumable things like medication, food, and disposable things like catheters?

Amount of resource consumed.

A logical representation of a repository of versioned Entities of various types.

Folders, used for classifying / grouping other entities.

Collection of material entities, i.e. 'things'.

Collection of assets, i.e. owned entities.

Collection of parties.

Collection of resources.

Collection of assets, i.e. owned entities.

Static type formed by binding generic parameter of VERSIONED_OBJECT<T> to ENTITY.

Static type formed by binding generic parameter of VERSIONED_OBJECT<T> to ENTITY.

Static type formed by binding generic parameter of VERSIONED_OBJECT<T> to ENTITY.

Static type formed by binding generic parameter of VERSIONED_OBJECT<T> to ENTITY.

Static type formed by binding generic parameter of VERSIONED_OBJECT<T> to ENTITY.