concretizes
An object property with identifier http://rds.posccaesar.org/ontology/lis14/rdl/concretizes
| Source ontology | Industrial Data Ontology |
| isPrimitive | true |
| naturalLanguageDefinition | If x 'concretizes' y, then y is an 'information object', and x is a 'physical object' copy of y, or an 'activity' performance of y. |
| primitiveRationale | A comprehensive definition of what it means to be a copy, or manifest a pattern, is beyond the scope of IDO. The definition given here is clearly incomplete. |
| usageNote | There are two main, and very different, uses of 'concretizes' for an information object y. (1) The information object is made concrete in printed or electronic copies. Each copy will have patterns of ink or configurations of electrons that map to y: a quality of appropriate similarity. (2) The information object is made concrete by a performance according to the specification given by y. |
| See also | obo:RO_0000059 |
| obo:BFO_0000059 | |
| obo:BFO_0000164 | |
| concretizedBy | |
| Example | A report is produced as paper copies, a spreadsheet document is shown on a computer screen, a plan is carried out, a device operates according to a functional specification, a software program is executed. |
| scopeNote | Inspired by BFO's "concretizes". The constraints on 'concretizes' in IDO closely matches that employed in BFO-ISO (obo:BFO_0000059), and not the RO or the IAO (obo:RO_0000059). |
| InverseOf | concretizedBy |
| Disjoint with | none |
| Domain | Activity or PhysicalObject |
| Range | InformationObject |