intellectual entity [English]
Syndetic Relationships
InterPARES Definition
n. ~ PaaST (IntellectualEntity) · An artifact that is intended to communicate information.
General Notes
'Artifact' as used here includes objects that are directly or indirectly created by humans, such as data that capture details of human interactions with social media or online systems, data generated by environmental sensors and the outputs of artificial intelligence systems.
Citations
- PaaST (1.0) 2017 (†860 p. 14): An IntellectualEntity has two subclasses, PreservationTarget and HeuristicInformation. A PreservationTarget is something that is preserved. HeuristicInformation is human readable information that is important in helping people to understand and interpret correctly the information conveyed by a PreservationTarget. These two subclasses are not mutually exclusive. An information object could be both a PreservationTarget and HeuristicInformation. The distinction depends essentially not on what the object is, but on the context in which it is managed, processed or used. (†2443)
- PaaST (1.0) 2017 (†860 p. 14): Within a Preservation Environment, an IntellectualEntity is a description of an information object. For PreservationTargets, an IntellectualEntity also specifies what must remain unchanged. (†2446)
- PaaST (1.0) 2017 (†860 p. 15): An Instantiation is related to only one BinaryEncoding, a logical consequence of the fact that a BinaryEncoding corresponds to only one IntellectualEntity. The BinaryEncoding represents the entity; the Instantiation expresses it. But a BinaryEncoding may have more than one Instantiation because the BinaryEncoding may be used to generate successive Instantiations over time. Moreover, an IntellectualEntity may have different Instantiations. (†2454)
- PaaST (1.0) 2017 (†860 p. 14): Within a Preservation Environment, an IntellectualEntity is a description of an information object. For PreservationTargets, an IntellectualEntity also specifies what must remain unchanged. (†2520)