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Appendix B: The i2 Semantic Approach
Property
Semantic Types
In the table above, the Person First Name property semantic type is assigned to
the Forename, Name and First Name fields in the three data sources. Regardless
of the name of the fields, power2 applications can understand how the data is to be
interpreted. By assigning semantic types to the fields, the data in all three data
sources is aligned to the meaning of the semantic type. This is referred to as
horizontal alignment, as the data is aligned across the various data sources.
Horizontal alignment also applies to single data sources, such as an iBase
database, where felons, victims, and informants could be entity types within the
data source.
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Felons Victims Informants
Person First Name Forename Name First Name
Person Last Name Surname Last Name
Gender Male/Female M/F Sex
Date of Birth Birth Date DOB Date of Birth
Marital Status Marital Status Married
Nationality
Social Security Number SSN Soc
Zip Code
Phone Number
Phone
Number
Nationality
Zip Code
Telephone
Number