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This UML Class Diagram (PNG image) for role-based executable #cidocCRM activity modeling is posted so I can reference it in reply to a thread on the CIDOC CRM SIG mailing list. By modeling Person as Actor of Roles, the Actor intermediary class objectifies the expression of agency. Usually, a Person is the Actor of Roles on their own behalf. By providing the explicit Actor, the Person can fulfill the "acting" of a Role by delegation to an Agent, either another Person or a software agent.

September 1996

DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.18852.22404

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This UML Class diagram shows how #cidocCRM Entities can be used in a role-based software model to objectify Activities, Roles, Actors, Persons, Agents, and Domain Objects, etc. This image shows how a number of #cidocCRM Entities can be laid over the role-based activity metamodel that I helped develop in Distributed Smalltalk in the mid-90s as a member of an engagement-based 'skunkworks' developing Executable Business Models while an Executive Consultant in the Object Technology Practice of IBM Global Services.

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