E55 Type

This property links an instance of E70 Stuff to an E55 Type of usage.

It allows the generic link between things, both physical and immaterial, to methods and techniques of use. Thus it can be asserted that a baseball bat had a general use for sport and a specific use for threatening people during the Great Train Robbery.

This property documents a source E32 Authority Document for an instance of an E55 Type.

This property records the type that was assigned to an entity by an E17 Type Assignment activity.

This property identifies the technique that was employed in an act of modification.

These techniques should be drawn from an external E55 Type hierarchy of consistent terminology of general techniques such as embroidery, oil-painting, etc. Specific techniques may be further described as instances of E29 Design or Procedure.

This property describes an intentional relationship between an E7 Activity and some general goal or purpose.

This property allows sub typing of CRM entities - a form of specialisation – through the use of a terminological hierarchy, or thesaurus.

This property allows an item to be declared as a particular example of an E55 Type or taxon

This property identifies the E55 Type, which is created in an E83Type Creation activity.

This property identifies a super-Type to which an E55 Type is related.

It allows Types to be organised into hierarchies. This is the sense of broader term generic (BTG) as defined in ISO 2788

This property defines the kind of objects used in an E7 Activity, when the specific instance is either unknown or not of interest, such as use of a hammer.