processing
Let an agent explain processing as a general concept and data processing in particular, distinguish kinds such as batch, real-time and background processing, relay standards and regulation such as data protection rules on processing personal data, and separate the sense from material and food processing.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Concept What processing is.
Definition
Definition and senses.
Definition
Definition.
- What is processing, and which sense is meant in a given context? definition
- Is the question about data processing or the processing of materials, food or applications? boundary
Kinds
Kinds of data processing.
Kinds
Kinds.
- How do batch, real-time, transaction and background processing differ? definition
- Which entry fits the specific kind? action
Practice Data processing practice.
Systems
Systems.
Systems
Systems.
- How are data processing systems designed and operated in business and administration? provenance
- Which entry fits information system? action
Quality
Quality and errors.
Quality
Quality.
- How are processing errors prevented and detected? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Law Processing of personal data.
Definition
Legal definition.
Definition
Definition.
- How do data protection laws define processing, and what obligations follow? provenance
- Is the user asking about a specific compliance case, which needs legal advice? boundary
Rights
Rights and bases.
Rights
Rights.
- What lawful bases and data subject rights apply to processing? provenance
- Which entry fits the GDPR? action
Context History and other senses.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did data processing develop from punched cards to modern computing? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of computing? action
Other
Other senses.
Other
Other.
- What do material, food and application processing involve? provenance
- Which entry fits the other sense? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- noun.process
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.PRC
- Facets: substance
- activity
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- administrative data processing, business data processing, automatic data processing, ADP, background processing, backgrounding, blowing, data mining, data processing, distributed data processing, remote-access data processing, teleprocessing
What it is Filled
The preparing of something or putting it through a prescribed procedure, in the sense recorded here chiefly data processing, the systematic handling of data by people or machines to collect, validate, sort, calculate, store and report, including administrative and business data processing, automatic data processing and background processing that runs without user interaction; the word also names the processing of materials, food, applications and other things by set procedures.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain processing as a general concept and data processing in particular, distinguish kinds such as batch, real-time and background processing, relay standards and regulation such as data protection rules on processing personal data, and separate the sense from material and food processing.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Defined procedure
- Input, transformation, output
- Manual or automatic
- Legal meaning for personal data
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Process personal data without a lawful basis or beyond the stated purpose.
- Run background processing that changes records without logging or the owner's knowledge.
- Alter results or drop records to make a report look better.
- Keep processed personal data longer than its retention rules allow.
Only with a human decision
- Starting processing of personal data for a new purpose.
- Bulk changes or deletions in production data.
May
- Process data it is authorized to handle, keeping records of what was done.
- Validate inputs and report errors instead of silently correcting or dropping them.
- Run scheduled background jobs within agreed limits.
Moral aspects Filled
- Automated processing can decide people's access to services; errors scale fast.
- People have a right to know how their data is processed.
Who is affected
- Data subjects
- Users of processed results
- Data controllers
Owners Filled
Steward
The data controller for each processing activity; processors act on its instructions.
Master systems
- Records of processing activities
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-00029976-n - registry parent class
related
- activity - a procedural one
- data processing - the main sense
- data protection law - for personal data
- food processing - a separate sense
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.processing
- Open English WordNet: oewn-13562370-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Putting something through a prescribed procedure
- Data processing as the main sense here
- Food processing and material processing are separate senses
- Not a visible object; procedures carried out on data or things.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept and kinds
- explain data processing modes
- relay data protection rules on processing
- separate other senses
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Errors and data corruption
- Unlawful processing of personal data
- Sense confusion
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Data protection laws such as the GDPR defining processing of personal data
- Records management standards
- Computing standards for transaction processing
Context of use required Filled
- Transforming inputs by defined procedures.
- administrative and business data processing
- automatic data processing
- batch, real-time and background processing
- transaction processing
- processing of personal data as a legal category
- material, food and application processing as other senses
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13562370-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: processing - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should data processing be the primary entry?
- How should data protection rules be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming kinds of data processing; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-processing/spec.json