Term Request: Email Address

[aellenhicks-jhuapl]

The definition of Email Box is

"A Telecommunication Instrument that is designed to be the delivery destination of Email Messages that are addressed to the corresponding Email Address."

But there is no corresponding class for Email Address.

Suggested Parent Class: Artifact Identifier (https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000292)
Suggested Definition: An Artifact Identifier which designates some Email Box.

[alanruttenberg]

An email box is not an artifact. There are various devices that can display email addresses but they are not specifically addressed by the email address. You don't know what particular machine an email message will be received or displayed on.

[aellenhicks-jhuapl]

That's odd. Email Box is a descendent class of Material Artifact (see image)
Def of Email Box: A Telecommunication Instrument that is designed to be the delivery destination of Email Messages that are addressed to the corresponding Email Address.

Do you have a proposed alternative definition for Email Address? We do need this class for a number of projects.

[alanruttenberg]

Maybe: An Information content entity that is a collection of Email Messages structured so that individual messages can be viewed by an email client

Note that in the develop branch, email message(ont00002012) is an information content entity.

[aellenhicks-jhuapl]

Are we still talking about Email Address?

[alanruttenberg]

I'm not sure it belongs in a definition of email box e.g. email boxes can be archives and so collect messages directed to multiple addresses. There is a need for email address regardless. Here's one that might fit CCO: A Designative Name created in order to identify some Email Box as the destination of an email message for the purpose of Email Messaging

[aellenhicks-jhuapl]

"A Designative Name created in order to identify some Email Box as the destination of an email message for the purpose of Email Messaging"

Sounds like a good definition of Email Address to me.