common pedigree administration system

the system designed to administer the assignment of any possible reference to an individual person to the correct person in the common pedigree; cf. Chapter 4, §1; the c. p. a. s. uses the name authority system, the date authority system, and the locality authority system to produce knowledge bases that plug into modules of the standardization process the c. p. a. s. produces its own semantic resource for interpreting the name of the person