folks-eds Reference Manual

- aggregation: the process performed by libfolks which takes all the implicit and explicit links between persona s and uses them to form individuals which (should) uniquely represent physical people known by the user.
- client: an application (or library) which uses libfolks.
- explicit link: a link between personas which was explicitly created by the user.
- implicit link: a link between personas which wasn't explicitly created by the user; it was inferred by libfolks from trusted data which is shared by the personas in question.
- individual: a collection of one or more personas which relate to the same physical person.
- link (verb): to “connect” two personas (which should relate to the same physical person) in a non-destructive manner to form an individual.
- linked individual: an individual which contains more than one persona.
- persona: a single “facet” of a physical person as seen by the user, such as a contact for them on a particular IM service, their profile on a social networking site or the user’s address book entry for the person.
- singleton individual: an individual which contains only one persona (i.e. that persona has no implicit or explicit links).
- unlink: to break the links between the personas forming an individual so that they are no longer aggregated into that individual.
- user: the physical person who owns the currently logged in user account on the computer.