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Metadata glossary team reviewed definition and explanatory text of GSIM (v1.2) information objects and made following comments for next GSIM revision team to consider.
Some writing convention applied to definition include:
- Spelling : UK English will be used (example: organisation instead of organization)
- No leading articles in definitions : All starting "A", "An", "The", etc. will be removed. Definition of term should be able to substitute grammatically; starting with article/using sentence will not allow this
- Definitions will not start with the concept to be defined (e.g. "A Classification Family is...")
- Definitions will start with lowercase and have no ending dot
Base Group
- Agent: (Meeting 16 July 2019) 1) we found "some form of responsibility" is vague, we understand that it was borrowed from prov ontology (during GSIM revision). Can this be made clearer in explanatory text?; 2) can Agent be non-Individual or non-Organisation, e.g. programme in automatized process (in this case, "some form of responsibility" does not make sense)?; 3) consider adding reference to prov ontology as source of definition in explanatory text (see how it is done for Agent In Role)
- Change Event: (Meeting 16 July 2019) the way definition is written does not conform with writing convention. We suggest to change definition to "indication of the occurrence of a change to an Identifiable Artefact". Second sentence ("It relates to the information object(s) that has(have) been affected.") to be moved to the explanatory text.
- Change Event Tuple: (Meeting 6 August 2019) The second sentence should be moved to the explanatory text
- Identifiable Artefect: (Meeting 6 August 2019) There is a similar definition of this concept in the SDMX Glossary. What should be our philosophy? Keep the two glossaries totally distinct or should we refer here to the SDMX Glossary (e.g. in the explanatory text) ? We could also adopt the SDMX definition and push the current definition to the "explanatory text" section; Create GSIM Issue Need definition & explanatory text of 'artefact' to clarify the definition (& provide reference to SDMX definition)
- Maintainer: (Meeting 6 August 2019) Should we mention here the concept of "Maintenance Agency" from the SDMX Glossary?; to move example (e.g. …) in the definition to the explanatory text
- Owner: (Meeting 6 August 2019) Proposal: second sentence to be moved to "Explanatory text"; to add 'authority' to include working groups, task forces etc. (i.e. instead of "A statistical office or other authority ..", "statistical office, authority or other organisation...")
- Role: (Meeting 6 August 2019) to change responsible function to responsibility function as functions can't be responsible
5 Comments
Jenny Linnerud
20 Sep, 2019In Statistics Norway we have addded System as a subtype of Agent. This is in line with the Class: prov:SoftwareAgent in prov ontology.
InKyung Choi
22 Sep, 2020(GSIM task team meeting, 16 September, 2020)
Team discussed on Agent, Role and Agent In Role. Discussion and conclusion include:
The updated definition and explanatory text are:
Object
Definition
Explanatory text
Agent
someone or something that plays an active role in a Business Process (or a part of it), in the existence of an entity, or another agent's Business Process
An Agent may be an Organisation, an Individual or a software system. An Organisation may be an entire organisation or entities within a larger organisation, such as departments or divisions. An Organisation may have sub Agents, which may be either other Organisations within the parent Organisation or Individuals that belong to that Organisation. In the PROV-Ontology from W3C, “Agent” is defined as “something that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place, for the existence of an entity, or for another agent's activity”.
Agent In Role
Agent acting in a specific Role
In the Organisation Ontology from W3C Agent In Role is called a “Post”.
Role
responsibility for a statistical Business Process (or a part of it) or an entity
Examples: Owner, Maintainer, Contact, software invocation.
InKyung Choi
06 Jan, 2022(GSIM task team meeting, 4 November, 2020)
Comments from Italy about Base Group
Discussion on the comments
InKyung Choi
04 Dec, 2020(GSIM task team meeting, 25 November, 2020)
Discussion on Base Group
Maintainer
Identifiable Artefact (IA)
Administrative Details
InKyung Choi
14 Dec, 2021For discussion on attributes: see GSIM objects with attribute issue