0118 Actor Roles¶

Roles describe collections of responsibilities. These responsibilities can be fulfilled by a person, team or engine.

ActorRole entity¶

Open metadata separates the ActorProfile from the roles they perform. This is because people often perform many roles and these change over time. Also roles may be put in place before the person is appointed to it and the person appointed can change from time to time.

PersonRole entity¶

The PersonRole entity is extended in multiple places to show different types of roles. For example:

• 'TeamLeader' and 'TeamMember'
• 'GovernanceRole'
• 'ProjectManager'

PersonRoleAppointment¶

The PersonRole entity is linked to a Person entity with the PersonRoleAppointment relationship to show that the person has been appointed. It is common for effectivity dates to be set on this relationship.

Further information¶

The roles within a team are shown on Model 0119 - Team Roles.

People, Roles and Organizations describes how metadata about people is populated and used.

The Actor Manager provides support for managing actor profiles and roles.

The People Organizer supports the definition of team structures.

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