Aspect Scoped Identity Projection¶

Represent one underlying entity under a defined aspect or role as a linked derived bearer, so properties, rights, obligations, identifiers, and lifecycle rules attach only where they belong.

Summary¶

Aspect-Scoped Identity Projection creates a governed identity for an entity-under-aspect: a person-as-student, work-as-expression, organization-as-licensee, object-as-cataloged-item, or account-as-admin-principal. It should be used when the aspect carries local properties, rights, obligations, identifiers, or lifecycle conditions that must not collapse into the whole entity.

Core move¶

The intervention is not merely labeling or filtering. It creates a linked derived bearer with an explicit selector, scope boundary, persistence criteria, property inheritance map, lifecycle state, and reference rule. The underlying entity remains visible, but facts do not spill automatically across every aspect.

Pre-draft disposition result¶

The disposition check supported a full draft. Existing accepted archetypes own neighboring pieces—classification, context anchoring, source-of-truth records, identifier binding, role formation, and access-control mechanisms—but none owns the full aspectual-individuation pattern. Queue-local outputs such as Identity-Bounded Change and Durable Identifier Binding remain important neighbors: they govern diachronic continuity and handles, while this archetype governs the projected bearer that exists under an aspect.

Use with caution¶

For human subjects, this pattern can improve purpose limitation and contextual accuracy, but it can also create hidden profiling infrastructure. Sensitive uses require visible scope, clear authority, contestability, minimization, and fairness review.

Common Mechanisms¶

Aspect Lifecycle Register
Context-Sensitive Classification
Database View or Entity Projection
Legal Capacity or Status Record
Role-Based Access Profile
Role-Scoped Record Type
Scoped Namespace Suffix
Typed Identity-Relation Edge
Work / Expression / Manifestation / Item Model

Compression statement¶

When a single entity must be reasoned about differently under different roles, capacities, expressions, phases, or contexts, project an aspect-scoped identity: a derived record linked to the underlying bearer, governed by its own scope boundary, persistence criteria, inherited-property map, identifier rule, lifecycle state, and remerge/supersession policy.

Canonical formula: underlying_entity + aspect_selector + persistence_criteria -> aspectual_individual linked_to underlying_entity

Abstractions this archetype builds on — directly (a source ingredient) or as a related pattern. Links follow the typed catalog namespace.

Built directly on (8)

Abstract Work: A content identity that persists across its concrete carriers, with an explicit criterion for which instance-variations preserve the work and which fork a new one.
Aspectual Individual: Treating a single underlying entity, under a fixed role or aspect, as a distinct derived bearer of properties with its own narrower existence conditions.
Boundary: Defines system limits.
Context: Surrounding state that selects which content a fixed focal signal carries.
Criteria of Individuation: The rules a system fixes for what makes something one entity — when parts compose a single whole, when two presentations are the same entity, and which kind supplies a thing's persistence — together constituting its inventory of countable individuals.
Identity-Providing Kind: A category whose membership fixes what it takes for an instance to remain the same instance over time, supplying persistence criteria rather than a temporary description.
Persistent Identifier: A designed token committed to keep resolving to its entity across changes in the entity's location, representation, custodian, or version, via a separately maintained resolver.
Role: A bundle of expected behaviours attached to a social position.

Also references 19 related abstractions

Access Control: Restrict system access.
Accountability: Responsibility for actions.
Authority: The recognized, legitimate right to issue binding decisions within a defined scope, distinct from raw coercive force or mere persuasive influence.
Category: Describe a system by its arrows and their composition, not by what its objects are.
Classification: Sorting entities into discrete categories by explicit rules, turning unbounded variation into a finite, reusable map for downstream reasoning and action.
Data Integrity: Accuracy and consistency preserved.
Equivalence Relation: Groups elements into equivalence classes.
Identity Test: The rule that decides, in a given system, when two presentations refer to the same entity.
Identity-Preserving Modification: An entity undergoes an event that changes some of its properties while an identity-condition licenses calling the after-state a continuation of the same entity rather than its replacement.
Indirection: Introduces intermediary references.

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Variants¶

Narrower or domain-specific specializations that share this archetype's core structure. Recognized variants are established; candidate variants are provisional.

Role-Scoped Identity Record · governance variant · recognized

Represents the same underlying entity as a distinct role-bearing record with local properties, obligations, and lifecycle state.

Distinct from parent: The parent covers any aspect; this variant emphasizes formal role and capacity.
Use when: Role-specific duties, permissions, or facts must not spill over to the whole entity; The role can start, end, suspend, or transfer independently.
Typical domains: organizations, access control, legal records
Common mechanisms: role scoped record type, role based access profile, typed identity relation edge

Abstract-Work Expression Projection · domain variant · recognized

Separates an abstract work from expressions, manifestations, copies, or performances as linked aspectual bearers.

Distinct from parent: The parent is general identity projection; this variant uses work-expression-item style distinctions.
Use when: Different levels of a cultural or intellectual object have different properties; Cataloging or rights decisions depend on which level is being referenced.
Typical domains: libraries, archives, musicology, publishing
Common mechanisms: work expression manifestation item model, typed identity relation edge

Phase-Scoped Identity Projection · temporal variant · candidate

Treats an entity under a phase or status as a derived bearer while preserving underlying continuity.

Distinct from parent: The parent is not necessarily temporal; this variant is state/phase-driven.
Use when: Phase-specific facts or obligations matter; A phase has its own entry/exit conditions.
Typical domains: case management, product lifecycle, clinical episodes
Common mechanisms: aspect lifecycle register, typed identity relation edge

Near names: Qua-Object Modeling, Capacity-Specific Identity, Context-Bound Persona Record.