Subclass of:

• aaao:ZE2 Appellative Status

Scope note:

An instance of contact status is the collective ascription of a contact point to an actor by a community. The substance of the contact status is the communal commitment to the addressing of messages to the actor in question according to a designated contact point appellation, using the implied message exchanging method.

Instances of contact status are recognizable through evidence of community members adopting the intentional stance of so-addressing messages to the actor in question, as observable from direct witnesses, through the reports of competent observers or through evidence of a declarative act [e.g.: E15 Identifier Assignment] initiating this status. Examples of such evidence include, several individuals so addressing messages to an actor via this contact point appellation, a witness declaring that an actor can so be reached, or through documents reporting this fact.

Instances of contact status may come to be through a formal process such as a declarative act of identifier assignment, or may have arisen through habit, fiat or be of unknown origin. Instances of contact status may end either though a formal process, such as a new declarative act of identifier assignment, through formal assignment, or may simply fade out of use, be eliminated by fiat or for unknown reasons. 

Examples:

• The Contact Point Status (ZE3) of Charles the 3rd's mailing address "Buckingham Palace London SW1A 1AA" (E41) as 'provides access to' Charles III (E21), 6 May 2023 - Present holds for the Royal Households of the United Kingdom (E74) (https://www.royal.uk/contact)
• The Contact Point Status (ZE3) of "thomas.haensli@uzh.ch" (E41) as 'provides access to' Thomas Hänsli (E21), 2023 - Present holds Swiss Art Research Infrastructure (E74) (https://www.sari.uzh.ch/de/organisation/mitarbeitende/thomas-haensli.html)

In First Order Logic:

• ZE3(x) ⇒ ZE2(x)

Outgoing properties:

• aaao:ZP8 has contact point subject (is contact point subject of) (1,1:0,n) → crm:E39 Actor
• aaao:ZP9 ascribes contact point (is contact point ascribed by) (1,1:0,n) → crm:E42 Identifier
• aaao:ZP10 ascribes contact point relation (is contact point relation ascribed by) (1,1:0,n) → crm:E55 Type