Attribute

Short Description

An Attribute is data, that represents a characteristic that a party (the owner of the attribute) has attributed to an entity (the subject of the attribute). An attribute typically represents a statement (assertion, claim) of its owner, that states the attribution of that characteristic to its subject.

Note that

• the party that has stated its attribution of the characteristic to the entity owns the attribute;
• the entity wo which the characteristic is attributed, is the subject of the attribute.

Related topics can be found in the identity pattern, the identification pattern and the identifier pattern.