InformationContentEntity
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An Information Content Entity is a generically dependent continuant that is about some entity. It is the information itself, distinct from any particular material thing that carries it, so the same content can be concretised by many different bearers at once. A weather report, a serial number and a blueprint are all information content entities that stand in an is about relation to the entities they concern.
Examples
- a measurement result
- a mission plan
- a personal name
Where it sits in the suite
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.