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Please note that in the model documentation, the range of this property is either crmflu:EC74 Communicative Group or crm:E21 Person.

As it is not possible in OntoME to have two ranges for a property, the choice on import was made to use the common class immediately above, i.e. crm:E39 Actor.

Here is an extract from the documentation:

Influence on collective actors:

As a first idea, let us consider a Group in the sense of the CRM, which can act as an individual, in contrast to a mass limited by parameters. Then evidence may just be sought in their common or representative activities and products. However, in order to argue about an influence common to identifiable collectives of people we should exclude groups which are led by representatives, such as large enterprises, institutions and nations. We have to assume that groups capable of acting as an individual under the same identifiable individual influence have a sort of shared understanding prior to acting by definition, broadly a shared mental attitude. Such shared understanding should normally be the result of communication among its members, characteristic for teams, and generally limiting the size of participants.

For a mass of people, certain professions or religious confessions, social classes, we need to take a rather statistical stance, which is not part of the model, in which influence is an interpretation of a potential based on varied evidence from individuals or clearly collaborating groups. The model presented here aims at providing the empirical base and the means to document the necessary provenance of knowledge for arguing at such a collective level without falling into the traps of hidden epistemological biases of statistical arguments, well-described in respective literature, not to talk about intentional distortion of reality. To provide this differentiation a new class, EC74 Communicative Group is created which creates the necessary specialisation. For the time being, we use EC74 Communicative Group OR E21 Person as the range of the respective properties. A tentative “Communicative Actor” class may be introduced later to replace this construct adequately.

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