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IOF Maintenance Working Group Reference Ontology
loading...| Preferred Name |
information content entity |
| Synonyms |
ICE |
| Definitions |
content or a pattern (generically dependent continuant) that is about some entity |
| ID |
https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/core/Core/InformationContentEntity |
| abbreviation |
ICE |
| adapted from |
Information Artifact Ontology, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000030 and also the Common Core Ontology, http://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Mid/InformationEntityOntology |
| alternative label |
Information ICE |
| definition |
content or a pattern (generically dependent continuant) that is about some entity |
| example |
the content of an email; the content of a document; the content in a CAD file; an algorithm for solving the quadratic equation; a guide or standard for writing and formatting conference papers. |
| explanatory note |
1. Information content entity is intended to be a class of entities whose instances represent some distinct content or pattern independent from the various ways of conveying it by physical, electronic, or other means. For example, three instances of information bearers -- a bar chart, a color-coded map, and a written report -- each conveying the GDP of Countries for the year 2010, are each different carriers of the same information content. It is this content that is generically dependent upon its carrier. This treatment of information content entity leads to a principle of subtyping based upon the relationship that ICE's have with the entity they are about rather than attributes such as format, language, measurement scale, or media. The latter are treated here as various qualities of the material entities that have them. 2. Information content entities are typically textual or schematic. |
| first-order logic axiom |
GenericallyDependentContinuant(x) ∧ ∃e(Entity(e) ∧ isAbout(x,e)) → InformationContentEntity(x) |
| is defined by | |
| is primitive |
true |
| label |
information content entity |
| natural language definition |
content or a pattern (generically dependent continuant) that is about some entity |
| prefixIRI |
iof-core:InformationContentEntity |
| prefLabel |
information content entity |
| primitive rationale |
Information content entities may well "be about" entity types for which no instances ever come into existence (e.g., a plan or requirement not implemented or satisfied, a command or directive never obeyed or followed, or an objective never achieved). IOF's current approach to modeling such informational entity types is to provide one or more sufficient conditions that can be readily expressed in OWL. |
| semi-formal natural language axiom |
if x is a 'generically dependent continuant' that 'is about' some 'entity' then x is an 'information content entity' |
| synonym |
Information |
| subClassOf |
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