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RE: [higgins-dev] support for devices in model

Title: Re: [higgins-dev] support for devices in model

A strong +1 to adding Device as a class of Agents. +1 to making it disjoint with Person or Organization.

 

=Drummond

 


From: higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Trevithick
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:56 PM
To: higgins-dev
Subject: Re: [higgins-dev] support for devices in model

 

Here’s some additional background. The current Context Data Model defines the following taxonomy to which I’ve added Hank’s Device:

Agent - An agent (e.g. person, group, software or physical artifact).
     Group - A class of Agents
     Organization (disjoint with Person)
     Person - A contextualized aspect of a person
     Device - <Hank, please propose a one sentence definition>

[BTW, I presume that we would make Device disjoint with Person and Organization. (In other words any given Entity instance can be a kind of Person or a kind of Organization or a kind of Device but never more than one of these at once).]

-Paul

On 11/5/08 2:32 PM, "Hank Mauldin" <hmauldin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I attended the recent Higgins Developer's face to face meeting with
several goals.  One was to discuss the proper way to deal with the
identity of devices in the IdAS model.  There are use cases for
devices and other related attributes, such as location and posture
information.  The discussion around supporting devices was basically
positive.

The method suggested to support devices is the same way a person is.
That means make "device" a sub-class of Agent.  The point of this
email is to open up the conversation to everyone and to see if anyone
has another view on the way of supporting devices.

Thanks
Hank
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