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 | |
label |
symbol |
prefixIRI |
IAO:0000028 |
prefLabel |
symbol |
term editor |
PERSON: Jonathan Rees PERSON: James A. Overton |
subClassOf |