LEAP pattern

Belongs to LEAP 2.0 > classes

Working definition
Describes or defines a general pattern, concept or idea that other portfolio items can be related to, which serves to group them together by relevance to the portfolio holder.

Explanation
Patterns are different from other portfolio items. Whereas other portfolio items deal with real things that have happened, or things that exist, patterns are generalities that allow the real things to be classified.

This relates to the practice of tagging. A tag, particularly as in current practice, can be a text label assigned by the user. But it only makes sense to use a tag if it can be applied to more than one thing. Tagging becomes even more interesting for communication when tags are shared between people as well as across resources, and for this they need definitions to be shared and consented to.

The most important kind of pattern for portfolios is about ability. A LEAP ability defines in an impersonal way a set of knowledge, skill, competence, etc. which a person may display in some or all settings. Ability definitions can then be used for assertions that the holder has that ability; for the holder to set a goal to achieve that ability; or in other ways. One can see that activities may require certain abilities; they may use or develop them. Abilities of individuals in particular settings may be assessed.

Predicates
See the notes on LEAP triples for an explanation of what forms of triples there are, and how they are represented here.
 * Particular "Inherited" predicates are given to clarify their likely meaning for this class.
 * "Direct" predicates are those where this class is in the domain of the predicate (but its superclass is not).
 * "Inverse" predicates, if given for reference, are those where the class is in the range, but not the domain, of the predicate.
 * "=" means the predicate expects a literal object: the type of literal may be specified here.
 * "&rarr;" means the predicate expects an object URL referring to an instance of the given class(es).
 * "&larr;" is used for inverse predicates, and means that triples may exist with instances of the given class(es) as subject and this class as object.

Inherited
Particular predicates from item:
 * (content ... use description instead)

Direct

 * coverage = a note on the spatio-temporal aspects of the pattern, in case they are not independent
 * description = a description of the pattern; preferred over content
 * equivalent &rarr; any URI
 * has part &rarr; another LEAP pattern
 * is part of &rarr; another LEAP pattern
 * is pattern of &rarr; any LEAP item which takes a pattern; any URI
 * has pattern &larr; any LEAP item which takes a pattern;
 * overlap &rarr; any URI
 * satisfied by &rarr; any URI
 * satisfies &rarr; any URI
 * spatial = a note on the spatial aspects of the pattern
 * temporal = plain text note about the temporal aspects of the pattern

Subclasses

 * LEAP ability
 * LEAP actionpattern
 * LEAP assessment
 * LEAP interest
 * LEAP personality