concretizes
An object property with identifier http://rds.posccaesar.org/ontology/lis14/rdl/concretizes
| Source ontology | Industrial Data Ontology |
| is primitive | true |
| natural language definition | 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. |
| primitive rationale | 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. |
| usage note | The relation of concretization is under-documented, especially when it comes to concretization as entities to be realized in activities, or activities themselves; we follow the latter, as is done in BFO-ISO, where the performance of a musical piece is the concretization. Other BFO documentation says the intention to perform is the concretization. The current annotations and axioms in IDO represent a best effort, but may need to be changed. |
| 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. A 'process profile' of the performance will map to the pattern of y in an appropriate way. | |
| 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. |
| scope note | 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 |