Preferred Name

symbol

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 label

symbol

example of usage

a serial number such as "12324X"

a stop sign

a written proper name such as "OBI"

has curation status

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000125

label

symbol

prefixIRI

IAO:0000028

prefLabel

symbol

term editor

PERSON: Jonathan Rees

PERSON: James A. Overton

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000030

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