D2.1 Definition(s) of Identity

Description

The different definitions of terms that relate to the concept of identity.

Definition

Categories of terms (Ontology)

Draft (to be completed / redefined / detailled)

• Generic term (definition)
• Situation
• State / Facts
• Processes
• Relationships
• roles
• Reference
• Individual (Person)
• Expert
• Intermediary (public servant, ...)
• User (end user / citizen)
• Organization
• Research group
• Company
• Publication item
• article
• White paper
• Journal paper
• Magazine article
• Narative
• Case
• Story
• Scenario
• Book
• Reference book
• Cases collection
• Tutorial
• Project
• Research project
• Company project
• Component / System
• Prototype
• Product
• Model
• Theory
• Principle
• Mechanism
• ...

Defining the Identity domain

... ontology of terms related to identity ...
The following terms that related to identity (and that will have to be organised): Identity, Profiling, Unlinkability, Forensic, ...

• identity term
• identifier
• biometrics
• DNA
• finger print
• retina
• iris
• face
• electronic device
• id card
• RFID
• digital id
• login/password
• pseudonyme (?)
• profile
• representation
• individual profile
• location
• biometrics
• job information
• organization
• title
• role
• tasks
• salary
• career information
• title
• salary
• psychological profile
• personality
• motivation
• cognitive style (learning, working, ... style)
• sociological profile (affiliations)
• personal network (mates, friends, ...)
• family network
• professional network
• political network
• sociological profile (perception)
• reputation
• preferences
• financial information
• banking information
• tax information
• incomes
• group profile
• organization profile
• profiling (capturing)
• datamining
• forensic (biometrics, ...)
• personality test
• identity fraud
• mechanism
• phishing
• scams
• spam
• spoofing
• spyware
• domain fraud
• credit card fraud
• money laundering
• spamming (e-commerce)
• identity and privacy protection
• authentication
• certification authority
• encryption
• PGP
• anonymizer
• identity action property
• anonymous
• linkable / unlinkable
• observable, unobservable
• identity application domain
• commerce
• business
• shopping
• education
• formal education (school, university)
• continuous education
• heathcare
• government
• security
• taxes
• work
• personal work
• group work
• community work (CoP, etc.)
• organization (access control, HRM, ...)
• inter-organization (business relationship, outsourcing)
• leisure
• dating
• peer-to-peer
• Gaming (RPG)
• ...
• root term n
• root term n+1
• sub term1
• sub term2
• sub-sub term1
• sub-sub term2
• ...
• ...

List or terms:

  
main terms:
	accountability, anonymity (relationship, ...),
	identity (partial, digital, virtual, ...), identity theft, identity management, identification, identifier, ID, identifiability,
	linkability / unlinkability (absolute or relative)
	observability, unobservability,
	privacy, profiling,
	pseudonyme (person, role, relationship, role-relationship, transaction), pseudonymity,
	...
  
peripheral terms:
	application domain (health, commerce, governement, ...), attack, attacker, authentic / phony, attribute, authentication, avatar,
	big brother, biometrics,
	certificate, certification authority, communication, confidence, credential, credit card fraud, criminal,
	datamining, data protection, discipline (psychology, security, sociology, technology), DRM (digital right management),
	encryption, ethical, entropy,
	forensic,
	hacker, hijack, homeland,
	individual self, information,
	key (private or public),
	logging, lure,
	misinformation, money laundering,
	organization,
	PGP, phishing, PKI, peer-to-peer, public, private, person (real or legal), proxy,
	relaying, RFID, recipiant, reputation, revocation, role, role playing game (RPG),
	secrete, secrecy, sender, signature, malware (spyware, virus, worm, backdoor, ...), scams, spam, spoofing,
	title, trace, traceable, transaction, transferability, trust,
	uniqueness,
	validity, virtual community,
	...

Some references

Documents edited by members of the Fidis consortium

Marit Hansen and Andreas Pfitzmann;

Anonymity, Unobservability, Pseudonymity, and Identity Management - A Proposal for Terminology;

Working document

Associated terms: anonymity, unlinkability, unobservability, pseudonymity, and identity management

(repository http://dud.inf.tu-dresden.de/Literatur_V1.shtml)

Based on the nomenclature of the early papers in the field, we propose a terminology which is both expressive and precise. More particularly, we define anonymity, unlinkability, unobservability, pseudonymity (pseudonyms and digital pseudonyms, and their attributes), and identity management.

... to be completed

External documents and resources

External documents will be used as references or illustration to the Identity topics and terms.

For instance in the domain of profiling: (the following documents are provided here just as examples)

Jason Kingdon;

AI Fights Money Laundering;

IEEE Intelligent Systems, May/June (Vol. 19, No. 3), 2004

Associated terms: Profiling, Unlinkability, Forensic, ...

(html http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/ex/2004/03/x3087abs.htm)

With almost half of the world's top 20 banks using AI systems, AI has emerged as the leading method in the fight against money laundering. One company in particular, Searchspace, monitors customer activity to identify unusual behavior and detect potential money-laundering situations.

Greg Elmer;

Profiling Machines (Mapping the Personal Information Economy);

The MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-05073-0, January 2004

Associated terms: Profiling, ...

(html http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/ex/2004/03/x3087abs.htm)

In this book Greg Elmer brings the perspectives of cultural and media studies to the subject of consumer profiling and feedback technology in the digital economy. He examines the multiplicity of processes that monitor consumers and automatically collect, store, and cross-reference personal information..

see the collection of resources related to the identity domain that have already been collected.

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