Requesting definitions for "identification process" and subclasses

[kbdhaar]

Please add definitions for "identification process" and its subclasses.

[neilotte]

I second this request. Relatedly, is the identification process also a subclass of social act?

[cstoeckert]

DIscussed on Sept. 17, 2020 OBIB call that this is a priority and happy to participate in the discussion.

[cstoeckert]

Note that it is a subclass of social act and a planned process.
Start with self-identification. Processes like an instance of a person identifying as a male or female independent of their sex assigned at birth.
Another type of identification is an instance of a person is admitted to a hospital unconscious and a third party writes down the race/ ethnicity/ gender/ sex of the person. Can also happen when a resident/clinician just writes their assessment in notes.
May need a different label to capture these types of identification rather than other types (like types of rocks - categorizing) or denoting.

[CDowland]

Right now, this term is nothing more than a label with a parent class. There is also a now obsoleted term (‘identity datum’) that was axiomatically related to it.

@cstoeckert: I think your final statement about needing different terms for the processes you described is correct (if indeed we need to represent both sorts of processes). But I don’t know which sort(s) those requesting a definition have in mind here.

So, to resume discussion and move forward with this, I have some questions for those who have requested a definition:

(1) What sort(s) of process are/were you hoping to represent with this term?

(2) Do you still have a need for a term to represent that sort of process?