information content entity
IRI: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/construct/InformationContentEntity
Defined In: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/core/Core/
SubClass Of: bfo:generically dependent continuant
Class Hierarchy
owl:Thing › bfo:entity › bfo:continuant › bfo:generically dependent continuant › information content entity
Direct subclasses:
- action specification
- agreement
- algorithm
- certificate
- denoter
- descriptive information content entity
- design specification
designation- designative information content entity
- directive information content entity
- failure mode code
- input specification
- location identification scheme
- maintenance work order record
- measurement information content entity
- objective specification
- performance indicator specification
- plan specification
- process parameter specification
- product family specification
- product variant set specification
- requirement specification
- value expression
Definition
content or a pattern (generically dependent continuant) that is about some entity
Explanatory Notes
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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.
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Information content entities are typically textual or schematic.
Examples
- 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.
Synonyms
- Information
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
Primitive Class
This class is declared primitive and it does not have necessary and sufficient condiftions defined.
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.
Formal Axioms
First-Order Logic Axioms
GenericallyDependentContinuant(x) ∧ ∃e(Entity(e) ∧ isAbout(x,e)) → InformationContentEntity(x)
Semi-Formal Natural Language Axioms
if x is a ‘generically dependent continuant’ that ‘is about’ some ‘entity’ then x is an ‘information content entity’
Description Logic
constr:InformationContentEntity ⊑ bfo:generically_dependent_continuant
bfo:generically_dependent_continuant ⊓ ∃ constr:isAbout .bfo:entity ⊑ constr:InformationContentEntity
SubClassOf: bfo:generically_dependent_continuant
bfo:generically_dependent_continuant and constr:isAbout some bfo:entity SubClassOf: constr:InformationContentEntity