| Re: [higgins-dev] What is a relationship? (was whoami (was [IdAS] Context open/close semantics)) |
It's both. It is between DigitalSubjects, which may represent the same entity or different entities.
We don't have the notion of a "persona" of a DigitalSubject. A DigitalSubject is defined solely by its Context. "Home Tom" and "Work Tom" are different DigitalSubjects, though they both represent the same entity. So a relationship between "Home Tom" and "Work Tom" is a relationship between distinct DigitalSubjects, as you state in item (1) below. But the type of the relationship could be "SameEntity", or something similar that represents your item (2).
...Greg Tom Doman wrote:
What is the semantic intent of the "relationship" construct between IDigitalSubjects? Is it: 1. Meant to convey some association to other distinct IDigitalSubjects? As in, Jim has a coworker relationship with Tom.2. Meant to associate distinct personas of a single IDigitalSubject? As in, Tom has a "work" persona and a "home" persona.3. Both? I ask for this clarification for a follow to the ContextRef+CUID discussion which is right in line with my e-mails about "Unique Identfication of Amalgamated Digital Subjects". I see this discussion as just another case where we have to work out unique identification issues. Thanks, Tom