Framework Parent: Systematized Knowledge Commons
Applicative Context: Application Cases
Dictionaries: Interaction Actant Indicator Constraint
Cases:
Purpose
The entity dictionary defines the entities included in a landscape entity model.
The determinants of the constraints that matter in dealing with entities are grouped in three orders, with increasing option ranges:
- the natural order;
- the social order; and
- the techno order.
Scope
An entity has the continuant property: it has a life time, during which it exists at each point in time, at a specific location (natural order). The existence of an entity must be distinguished from the role it may play in an interaction: for instance, a person who is in the role of teacher in a school. The person is the entity, who, during school hours fills the teacher role in the education interaction. The teacher is one actant in the interaction in which also pupils, the blackboard and the handbook are actants. The use-rights of the handbook are controlled by institutions such as copyrights: the teacher cannot modify the content, or make copies (social order). The internet and mobile communications provide increasingly versatile means to deal with learning objects (techno order).
Content
See: Ens Overview.
Entities interact according to patterns that are described in detail in the Interaction Dictionary.
