FAMILY OF CONCEPTS - Conceptualization Levels of Information Entity
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Information EntityAn Information Entity is an Information Asset that is not fundamentally defined by its attributes, but rather by its continuity. An Information Entity evolves over time and has states. For instance a person is an Information Entity. Employe is a state of a person. An Information Entity has relationships to other Information Entitys and can have Information Propertys. |
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DISJOINT SUBTYPES of 'Information Entity'
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Conceptual Entity |
A Conceptual Entity is the representation of any tangible or intanglible resource or state of such resource that is of interest to understand the enterprises, its data, resources and activities. A Conceptual Entity is either a Concept or a State Concept. Example: - "Person" is a Conceptual Entity of type Concept, Its temporal boundaries are is birth and its death (see Event Concept). - "Employee" is a Conceptual Entity of type State Concept: it is a state of a "person". Its temporal boundaries are its hiring and its departure. |
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Data Entity |
A Data Entity is an abstract structure of an Information Entity. It has an independent existence and can be uniquely identified. Data Entity is characterized by Relationships it has with other Data Entity(ies) and by Value Property(ies). |