Social Events

One way that SOCIAL-EVENTs are classified is into WORK-ACTIVITY and NON-WORK-ACTIVITY. Both refer to activities performed repeatedly by HUMANs under various SOCIAL-ROLEs. Individual EVENTs that are performed by a HUMAN by chance do not constitute WORK-ACTIVITYs. NON-WORK-ACTIVITYs subsume the SOCIAL-EVENTs that we participate in during our lives without regard to our chosen professions.

WORK-ACTIVITY is classified into MILITARY-ACTIVITY, MANUFACTURING-ACTIVITY, SERVICE-EVENT, BUSINESS-ACTIVITY, FARMING-ACTIVITY, ACADEMIC-ACTIVITY, and so on. BUSINESS-ACTIVITY is classified into PEOPLE-MANAGING-ACTIVITY, MONEY-MANAGING-ACTIVITY, and INFORMATION-MANAGING-ACTIVITY.

Apart from WORK-ACTIVITY and NON-WORK-ACTIVITY, SOCIAL-EVENTs also include others such as RELIGIOUS-ACTIVITY, POSSESSION-EVENTs, POLITICAL-EVENTs, CRIMINAL-ACTIVITY, and so on. Notable POSSESSION-EVENTs include BUY and ACQUIRE. One other subclass that is central to our domain is FINANCIAL-EVENT. FINANCIAL-EVENTs are further classified into EVERYDAY-FINANCIAL-EVENTs, CORPORATE-EVENTs, COMMERCE-EVENTs, BANKING-EVENTs, INVESTMENT-EVENTs, NATIONAL-ECONOMIC-EVENTs. A notable CORPORATE-EVENT is MERGE. The organization of SOCIAL-EVENTs is shown in Figure 11.

   
Figure 11: Parts of the Classification of Social Events in the Ontology.

This completes our tour of EVENTs. We now turn to PROPERTYs: RELATIONs and ATTRIBUTEs. It may be noted the classification of PROPERTYs is not as clear-cut and intuitive as that of OBJECTs or EVENTs. I hope this guided tour ameliorates the situation by giving a big picture of the ontological landscape.