Interactions, Social Relationships and Memberships of Persons

Profile description and usage

Description

This profile includes classes and properties that express interactions between people and memberships of people in groups or organisations.

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Main classes of this profile

Main classes & properties

Use cases

Person's interaction

--> Use this class to record the interaction of persons in time and physical (generally geographical) space. Each interaction is to be understood as a one-time encounter/meeting of persons, e.g. a conversation between Einstein and Niels Bohr during a congress.

Social relationship

--> Use this class to record a more or less active social relation between people, groups or countries as it is perceived in the context of specific social representations. Phenomenons like a friendship, marriage, apprenticeship can be classified as "social relationships".

Group

--> Use this class to record a gathering of people, which exhibits organisational characteristics, usually typified by a set of ideas or beliefs held in common, or actions performed together. These might be communication, creating some common artifact, a common purpose such as study, worship, business, sports, etc. E.g. the impressionists, the university of Oxford, the Greeks, King Solomon and his wives…

Membership

--> Use this class to record the fact that a person or an organization belongs to a group during a given time span.

Joining / Leaving

--> Theses classes comprise the activities that result in an instance of an actor becoming a member of a Group / being disassociated from a Group. E.g. Sir Isaac Newton's election as Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge to the Convention Parliament in 1689 / the end of his duty as member of the same institution in 1702.

Most common use cases

Detail someone's membership in a group

If you want to record that a person was part of an informal group or an institution, for example a footballer joining a club, you can proceed as follow :

Step 1) Create a group

If the group to which the person belonged is not already recorded in your project, create a new group by clicking on "Entities" > "add" > "Group".

Learn more about groups and how to use this class here.

Step 2) Add a membership

For instance, Lionel Messi joining the FC Barcelona

On the person's card, click on the "+" button, on the right of the field "is member of" (don't forget to use the Edit mode).
In the form that appears, click on the "+" button on the right of the field "Group (organization)".
On the right side of the new form, select the group you previously created.

A group can also join another group : for example, Switzerland's membership in the U.N. (2002).

Interactions between persons

Create a new interaction by clicking on "Entities" > "add" > "Person's interaction".
In the form that appears, click on the "+" button on the right of the field "Is interaction of".
On the right side of the new form, select a "person" entity that you previously created. Once it is done, repeat the process to add a second person.
Name the interaction (for example: Conversation between Thomas More and Thomas Wolsey), and add other informations that you have, such as the time or the place that the interaction took place.