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| The UDEF Definitions |
These definitions have been developed and approved by The Open Group.
 Objects
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- 0. Entity:
Any concrete or abstract thing of interest, including associations among things
- 1. Asset:
Any data or information about any resource, other than human,
which is used, consumed, or available for use/consumption by
any process of an enterprise
- 2. Document:
Any data or information about any collection of data or information,
regardless of format, which has definable boundaries and
is so designated for one or more purposes
- 3. Enterprise:
Any data or information about any definable boundary collection
of human and asset resources used to perform a collection
of processes to create one or more products which are intended for
use or consumption by outside entities
- 4. Environment:
Any data or information about any natural or man-made surrounding
that is relevant to the enterprise
- 5. Person:
Any data or information about any person that is relevant to the enterprise
- 6. Law-Rule:
Any data or information about laws (natural or man-made) or policies
that govern any process of the enterprise
- 7. Place:
Any data or information about any location that is relevant
to the enterprise
- 8. Process:
Any data or information about a definable course of events distinguishable
by its purpose or by its effect, whether natural, manual, automated or
machine supported and which is relevant to the enterprise
- 9. Product:
Any data or information regarding something that is the result
of a set of processes and which is intended to be used or consumed
by activities outside of the enterprise
- 10. Program:
Any data or information about any definable collection of enterprises
bound by a common set of objectives
- 11. Condition:
Any data or information that describes the state of something
of interest to the enterprise
- 12. Liability:
Any data or information that describes a risk or liability
of interest to the enterprise
- 13. Animal:
Any data or information that describes an animal
of interest to the enterprise
- 14. Plant:
Any data or information that describes a plant
of interest to the enterprise
- 15. Substance:
Any data or information that describes a substance
of interest to the enterprise
- 16. Event:
Any event of interest to the enterprise
Properties
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- 1. Amount:
A number of monetary units specified in a currency
- 2. Graphic:
A diagram, graph, mathematical curve or similar representation
(a type of binary object)
- 3. Picture:
A visual representation of a person, object, or scene
(a type of binary object)
- 4. Code:
A character string used to replace a definitive value
- 5. Date Time:
A particular point in the progression of time
- 6. Date:
A day within a particular calendar year (a type of date time)
- 7. Indicator:
A list of two and only possible values (synonym for Boolean)
- 8. Identifier:
A character string used to identify and distinguish uniquely
- 9. Percent:
A rate expressed in hundredths between two values with same UoM
(a type of numeric)
- 10. Name:
A word or phrase that distinctively designates a person, place, etc.
(a type of text)
- 11. Quantity:
A counted number of non-monetary units (a type of numeric)
- 12. Rate:
A quantity or amount measured with respect to another
quantity or amount (a type of numeric)
- 13. Measure:
A numeric value that is determined by measuring an object.
Measures are specified with a unit of measure
- 14. Text:
A character string generally in the form of words of a language
- 15. Time:
The time within a (not specified) day (a type of date time)
- 16. Value:
Numeric information that is assigned or determined by calculation,
counting, or sequencing (a type of numeric)
- 17. Sound:
A binary object that is capable of creating audio
(a type of binary object)
- 18. Video:
A binary object that is capable of creating motion pictures/graphics
(a type of binary object)
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