IAO_0000030 - information content entity

Label

information content entity

Editor preferred label

information content entity

Definition

A generically dependent continuant that is about some thing.

Definition source

OBI_0000142

Example

Examples of information content entites include journal articles, data, graphical layouts, and graphs.

Editor’s note

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).

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.

Term editor

PERSON: Chris Stoeckert