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[John McClure]

Title: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Preliminary List of Roles Hi Roger, We use qualified as a way to identify a quality that a thing has, so yes it is 'limiting' in the sense that by having such quality, then it is a member of a (sub-)group whose members have such quality. No I wouldnt say that a DistrictCourtJudge is a 'quality' that is applicable to any judge ... a PresidingJudge could be though -- and that term would be a subclass of QualifiedJudge , a subclass of Judge and QualifiedActor. [I'm calling these out because the subclasses of Judge in our dictionary are currently un-organized in this fashion.] An Actor is defined as .... (see the first definition in the file) Anyone or anything with a legal name or the capacity for a legal name.     In the DCD, an actor may be a Person , Company , Government , Group , Institution , or Organization . An additional Actor category, QualifiedActor , includes actors as defined by a particular quality,     including their role. A Role is not defined in the dictionary (how strange!) but we're happy to use any of the Webster definitions for this. A Class is explained by the W3C's RDF as:     [Class] corresponds to the generic concept of a Type   or Category , similar     to the notion of a Class in object-oriented programming languages such     as Java.     [and]     The RDF Schema type system is similar to the type systems of object-     oriented programming languages such as Java. However, RDF differs     from many such systems in that instead of defining a class in terms of     the properties its instances may have, an RDF schema will define     properties in terms of the classes of resource to which they apply. In other words, think of a definition of a class as the definition of a certain re-occurring mathematical set of its members. The definition identifies the characteristics that each member of the set must have. At least, this is the way that DARPA/OIL look at it, and it seems pretty sound to me.