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Label: information content entity

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A generically dependent continuant that is about some thing.

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2014-03-10: The use of "thing" is intended to be general enough to include universals and configurations (see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/information-ontology/GBxvYZCk1oc/-L6B5fSBBTQJ).

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information_content_entity 'is_encoded_in' some digital_entity in obi before split (040907). information_content_entity 'is_encoded_in' some physical_document in obi before split (040907). Previous. An information content entity is a non-realizable information entity that 'is encoded in' some digital or physical entity.

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An analysis scope is an information content entity that describes the boundaries of what a study or scenario covers.

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An assumption is an information content entity about a property of a system or process. It determines a part of a scenario content.

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A boolean value is an variable information content entity that can only be true or false.

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A constraint is a condition that has to be fulfilled within a calculation.

data descriptor

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A data descriptor is an information content entity that contains additional information about some data.

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A data item is an information content entity that is intended to be a truthful statement about something (modulo, e.g., measurement precision or other systematic errors) and is constructed/acquired by a method which reliably tends to produce (approximately) truthful statements.

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An information content entity that is intended to be a truthful statement about something (modulo, e.g., measurement precision or other systematic errors) and is constructed/acquired by a method which reliably tends to produce (approximately) truthful statements.

Editor note:

2/2/2009 Alan and Bjoern discussing FACS run output data. This is a data item because it is about the cell population. Each element records an event and is typically further composed a set of measurment data items that record the fluorescent intensity stimulated by one of the lasers.

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2009-03-16: data item deliberatly ambiguous: we merged data set and datum to be one entity, not knowing how to define singular versus plural. So data item is more general than datum.

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2009-03-16: removed datum as alternative term as datum specifically refers to singular form, and is thus not an exact synonym.

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2014-03-31: See discussion at http://odontomachus.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/aboutness-objects-propositions/

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JAR: datum -- well, this will be very tricky to define, but maybe some information-like stuff that might be put into a computer and that is meant, by someone, to denote and/or to be interpreted by some process... I would include lists, tables, sentences... I think I might defer to Barry, or to Brian Cantwell Smith JAR: A data item is an approximately justified approximately true approximate belief

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A database is an information content entity that stores data items and data sets.

directive information entity

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An information content entity whose concretizations indicate to their bearer how to realize them in a process.

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2009-03-16: provenance: a term realizable information entity was proposed for OBI (OBI_0000337) , edited by the PlanAndPlannedProcess branch. Original definition was "is the specification of a process that can be concretized and realized by an actor" with alternative term "instruction".It has been subsequently moved to IAO where the objective for which the original term was defined was satisfied with the definitionof this, different, term.

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2013-05-30 Alan Ruttenberg: What differentiates a directive information entity from an information concretization is that it can have concretizations that are either qualities or realizable entities. The concretizations that are realizable entities are created when an individual chooses to take up the direction, i.e. has the intention to (try to) realize it.

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8/6/2009 Alan Ruttenberg: Changed label from "information entity about a realizable" after discussions at ICBO

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Werner pushed back on calling it realizable information entity as it isn't realizable. However this name isn't right either. An example would be a recipe. The realizable entity would be a plan, but the information entity isn't about the plan, it, once concretized, *is* the plan. -Alan

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A collection of information content entities intended to be understood together as a whole

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An information content entity that is part of a document.

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An email address is an information content entity that identifies an email box to which messages are delivered.

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A forecast is an information content entity that contains statements about the most probable future development predicted with the help of past and present data.

geographic coordinate

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A geographic coordinate is an information content entity explicitly stating the geographic position of a zero-dimensional spatial region on Earth, by using a set of numbers with respect to a geographic coordinate system.

goal description

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A goal description is an information content entity that contains statements about a desired future state of a system that a person or organisation envisions or plans, or to which it commits.

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A licence is an information content entity that contains an official permission or permit to do, use or own something.

mathematical model

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A mathematical model is a information content artifact that represents a system and its behaviours mathematically.

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A memo item is an information content entity about a sector that describes that the sector is excluded from some kind of total and only reported to provide further information (memo).

model descriptor

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A model descriptor is an information content entity that contains information about some model.

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A modus is an information content entity describing the state of activity something has, e.g. active, inactive or passive.

objective function

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An objective function is an information content entity stating the function that should be maximised or minimised to solve a problem.

power plant portfolio

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A power plant portfolio is an information content entity that describes a particular combination or mix of different power plants, e.g. renewables and fossil plants within one business unit or company or trader.

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A quantity value is an information content entity defined by a numeral together with a unit of measurement to quantify an entity.

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A reference is an information content entity naming a relevant document, position in a document or address.

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A scenario is an information content entity that contains statements about a possible future development based on a coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions and their motivation.

scenario bundle

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A scenario bundle is an information content entity that connects information about a scenario study and the associated scenario projections on the OEP via the OEKG.

software descriptor

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A software descriptor is an information content entity that contains additional information about the software.

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An information content entity that is a mark(s) or character(s) used as a conventional representation of another entity.

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20091104, MC: this needs work and will most probably change

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2014-03-31: We would like to have a deeper analysis of 'mark' and 'sign' in the future (see https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/154).

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A textual entity is a part of a manifestation (FRBR sense), a generically dependent continuant whose concretizations are patterns of glyphs intended to be interpreted as words, formulas, etc.

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AR, (IAO call 2009-09-01): a document as a whole is not typically a textual entity, because it has pictures in it - rather there are parts of it that are textual entities. Examples: The title, paragraph 2 sentence 7, etc.

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MC, 2009-09-14 (following IAO call 2009-09-01): textual entities live at the FRBR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Requirements_for_Bibliographic_Records) manifestation level. Everything is significant: line break, pdf and html versions of same document are different textual entities.

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A variable is an information content entity that represents a changeable value, vector, matrix or function within a mathematical expression.

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generically dependent continuant

Definition:

b is a generically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant that g-depends_on one or more other entities. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [074-001])