This diagram shows the database transactions used to create and maintain the Profile or "Cross Index" function. The developer builds these transaction software units from almost any programming language or other tools that enables manipulation of the database management system underlying the DEM.

We create an "interest profile" for a group or individual by selecting a "Base" object (e.g., the individual position/person's object entry) from the Catalog, and then select associated location, organization, work unit, function, activity, and resource objects and describe their relationships. The Profile functions would then optimize this list of Base object associations by organizing the relationships between indirect associations into a chain of direct associations. From this, the distribution and composition of the Base object can be displayed.

When combined with the Base object’s distribution (containers) and composition (components), the Base object’s classification (parent, child) objects complete the mapping of the Base object’s context to the degree of accuracy of the Catalog and thus the Profile.

This page was last updated on September 20, 1998
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