5.0 SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES AREA

5.1 ROLES

DEFINITION:	This category documents areas of activity in which the person practiced, performed, worked, or otherwise participated. It includes identification of the area as well as information that further describes or qualifies the person's participation by time, location, or part played.
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>>Purpose:	This category serves to record information about the person's participation in various fields of endeavor so as to place the information about them into a common framework of human activity. The components of this framework (e.g., a particular discipline) are often the subject of research.
>>Nature:	Individuals participate in activities at a range of levels, including a broad level that defines the class of activities without regard to particular products or endeavours or to the level of activity that they undertake. These include disciplines, occupations, vocations, avocations, careers, and fields of interest. Information recorded in this category is somewhat subjective since it often does not represent a formal affiliation with a particular group and since there is no one framework of human activities that provides unambiguous delineation of the various components. While individuals may declare their roles in various ways, those categorizations are often the object of work of others who have a particular perspective or are addressing an area of human activity that the individual did not think to classify themselves with regard to.
SOURCES:	Information for this category may be found in the writings or other products of the individual or may be the product of interpretation and classification by others. The individual's affiliations or other relationships with various organized groups will often provide an indication of the contemporary roles in which the individual considered him or herself.
USES:	The identification of the roles that a person assumed during his or her lifetime can assist in the grouping of that person's experiences with others who shared similar roles; an exercise that can be useful for both archival management purposes (e.g., planning collecting strategies) or for research purposes.
ACCESS:	Because of its potential uses, this information must be searchable, both as a category and often by individual components.
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RELATIONSHIPS:	Information recorded in categories of the CULTURAL CLASSIFICATIONS and RELATIONSHIPS areas may be closely related to information in this category. The information in this category can be distinguished by its direct derivation from what the person has done rather than what the person is (as recorded in the CULTURAL CLASSIFICATIONS area) or the persons or organizations with which they have an established relationship (as recorded in the RELATIONSHIPS area). Some roles, however, will be a direct result of those relationships recorded elsewhere and that connection must be documented (e.g., the organizations in which a person practiced her profession as an employee).
ISSUES:	Is "Roles" the proper term for the relation of an individual to a broad field of human activity or is there a more appropriate term?

5.2 ACTIVITIES

DEFINITION:	This category documents the specific tasks, endeavors, projects, and other enterprises that an individual has undertaken.
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5.3 WORKS

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