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loading...| Preferred Name |
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| Definitions |
An information content entity that is a mark(s) or character(s) used as a conventional representation of another entity. |
| ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000028 |
| definition |
An information content entity that is a mark(s) or character(s) used as a conventional representation of another entity. |
| definition source |
based on Oxford English Dictionary |
| editor note |
20091104, MC: this needs work and will most probably change 2014-03-31: We would like to have a deeper analysis of 'mark' and 'sign' in the future (see https://github.com/information-artifact-ontology/IAO/issues/154). |
| editor preferred term |
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| example of usage |
a serial number such as "12324X" a stop sign a written proper name such as "OBI" |
| has curation status | |
| label |
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| prefixIRI |
IAO:0000028 |
| prefLabel |
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| term editor |
PERSON: Jonathan Rees PERSON: James A. Overton |
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