Draft:Notification

Gero Mühl, Ludger Fiege, Peter Pietzuch, Distributed Event-Based Systems (2006).

A notification is a formal or official communication of a message. In some instances, a notification is mandated by law, or that is required to occur before some other legal process can take place. In practical terms, the communication itself is usually called a notice, while notification is the process of delivering it to the recipient. However, several kinds of legal notifications are referred to as notice. A source explains:

"A notification is a datum that reifies an event, i.e., it contains data describing the event. A notification is created by the observer of the event and may just indicate the plain occurrence, but often may carry additional information describing the circumstances of the event."

Types of notification include:
 * Casualty notification is the process of notifying relatives of people who have been killed or seriously injured.
 * Death notification is the delivery of the news of a death to someone. It is frequently used particularly to describe the process of notifying relatives of a military person who has died.
 * Partner notification is the practice of notifying the sexual partners of a person who has been newly diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease.

A notification by the Holy See is an official announcement by a department of the Holy See, the leadership of the Catholic Church in Rome. The term used in Latin is notificatio, and in Italian it is notificazione. English translations most frequently use the similar word "notification", but sometimes use the word "note" or, as is more common for similar announcements by English-speaking entities, the word "notice".

"Notification simply means that there is a notice, a document, given to the resident or responsible party, that carefully spells out, in language the resident can easily understand, the transfer and discharge policy of the facility."

An excess of notifications, sometimes called "notification overload", can lead to "notification fatigue", where individuals experience stress or distraction due to an excessive volume of alerts, particularly in connection with mobile devices receiving notifications from social media accounts.