Event
A class with identifier http://rds.posccaesar.org/ontology/lis14/rdl/Event
| Source ontology | Industrial Data Ontology |
| isPrimitive | |
| naturalLanguageDefinition | An activity that occurs at one or more specific points in time. |
| Comment | Event is close in meaning to BFO's 'process boundary', and to DOLCE's 'achievement'. Note that BFO's 'process boundary' is a sibling class to 'process', even though the definition annotation states it to be a "temporal part of a process". It's not obvious why the event/process boundary should not have the same participants as the parent activity/process. |
| An 'event' doesn't need to be temporally connected. For example, several instances of switching on a heater over a week may be represented by a single 'event' individual; it will occupy a non-singular 'instant region'. The details of a singular event part may be modelled by relating the event to 'instant' individuals. | |
| See also | ISO 15926-2:2003 'event' |
| obo:BFO_0000035 | |
| dol:achievement | |
| Example | The beginning of a lifting operation, the end of a measurement activity, the midpoint between beginning and end of an activity. |