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loading...| Preferred Name |
Quality |
| Definitions |
A dependent entity that is present any time its bearer exists. DOLCE describes qualities as follows: "Qualities can be seen as the basic entities we can perceive or measure: shapes, colors, sizes, sounds, smells, as well as weights, lengths, electrical charges... 'Quality' is often used as a synonymous of 'property', but this is not the case in this upper ontology: qualities are particulars, properties are universals. Qualities inhere to entities: every entity (including qualities themselves) comes with certain qualities, which exist as long as the entity exists." The class Quality and its subclass PhysicalQuantity are inspired by corresponding classes included in the DOLCE and BFO (BFO_0000019) upper ontologies. |
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http://rds.posccaesar.org/ontology/lis14/rdl/Quality |
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DOLCE describes qualities as follows: "Qualities can be seen as the basic entities we can perceive or measure: shapes, colors, sizes, sounds, smells, as well as weights, lengths, electrical charges... 'Quality' is often used as a synonymous of 'property', but this is not the case in this upper ontology: qualities are particulars, properties are universals. Qualities inhere to entities: every entity (including qualities themselves) comes with certain qualities, which exist as long as the entity exists." The class Quality and its subclass PhysicalQuantity are inspired by corresponding classes included in the DOLCE and BFO (BFO_0000019) upper ontologies. |
| definition |
A dependent entity that is present any time its bearer exists. DOLCE describes qualities as follows: "Qualities can be seen as the basic entities we can perceive or measure: shapes, colors, sizes, sounds, smells, as well as weights, lengths, electrical charges... 'Quality' is often used as a synonymous of 'property', but this is not the case in this upper ontology: qualities are particulars, properties are universals. Qualities inhere to entities: every entity (including qualities themselves) comes with certain qualities, which exist as long as the entity exists." The class Quality and its subclass PhysicalQuantity are inspired by corresponding classes included in the DOLCE and BFO (BFO_0000019) upper ontologies. |
| example |
The temperature of a fluid stream, the tensile strength of a bolt, the length of a pipeline, the colour of a surface coating, the familiarity of a specialist with a modification procedure, the quality of a window of being open or closed. |
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true |
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Quality |
| naturalLanguageDefinition |
A dependent entity that is present any time its bearer exists. |
| prefixIRI |
lis:Quality |
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Quality |
| primitive rationale |
Qualities cover a broad range of what is commonly referred to as "properties". It is beyond the scope of IDO to precisely determine what should be included. |
| see also |
ISO 15926-2:2003 'property' http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/ActuatableProperty http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/DOLCE-Lite.owl#quality http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0000001 http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/Property |
| usageNote |
Qualities are in general subject to change over the lifetime of the bearer. The main IDO device for representing quality changes is through 'datum' individuals: see lis:qualityQuantifiedAs. Qualities should only be used for root properties such as voltage, pressure, etc. Where there are variants such as nominal, rated, actual voltage, modellers should use lis:Quality for voltage and use a subclass of lis:QualityDatum for the moderator ("nominal", etc.) |
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