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DirectiveInformationContentEntity

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A Directive Information Content Entity is an information content entity that prescribes some entity: it specifies how a process ought to be carried out, or the properties some entity ought to have. Plans, recipes, orders and specifications are directives; their content can be realised, satisfied or violated by the world.

Examples

  • a build specification
  • an assembly plan
  • a quality specification

Where it sits in the suite

Directive Information Content Entity is defined in the Common Core Ontologies, a mid-level suite that specialises the top-level categories of Basic Formal Ontology. It is released as part of the maintained, logically consistent CCO release and is reused across the connected ontology modules.

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