InformationBearingEntity
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An Information Bearing Entity is a material entity that carries, or concretises, one or more information content entities. A book, a hard drive and a road sign are information bearing entities: the same content can be borne by many of them at once, and destroying one bearer does not destroy the content itself.
Examples
- a printed document
- a storage device
- a signpost
Where it sits in the suite
Information Bearing 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.