loading...| Preferred Name |
data item |
| Definitions |
a data item is an information content entity that is intended to be a truthful statement about something (modulo, e.g., measurement precision or other systematic errors) and is constructed/acquired by a method which reliably tends to produce (approximately) truthful statements. |
| ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000027 |
| alternative term |
data |
| definition editor |
PERSON: Jonathan Rees PERSON: Chris Stoeckert PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg |
| editor note |
2014-03-31: See discussion at http://odontomachus.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/aboutness-objects-propositions/ 2/2/2009 Alan and Bjoern discussing FACS run output data. This is a data item because it is about the cell population. Each element records an event and is typically further composed a set of measurment data items that record the fluorescent intensity stimulated by one of the lasers. 2009-03-16: removed datum as alternative term as datum specifically refers to singular form, and is thus not an exact synonym. JAR: datum -- well, this will be very tricky to define, but maybe some information-like stuff that might be put into a computer and that is meant, by someone, to denote and/or to be interpreted by some process... I would include lists, tables, sentences... I think I might defer to Barry, or to Brian Cantwell Smith JAR: A data item is an approximately justified approximately true approximate belief 2009-03-16: data item deliberatly ambiguous: we merged data set and datum to be one entity, not knowing how to define singular versus plural. So data item is more general than datum. |
| editor preferred label |
data item |
| example of usage |
Data items include counts of things, analyte concentrations, and statistical summaries. |
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data item |
| prefixIRI |
IAO:0000027 |
| prefLabel |
data item |
| textual definition |
a data item is an information content entity that is intended to be a truthful statement about something (modulo, e.g., measurement precision or other systematic errors) and is constructed/acquired by a method which reliably tends to produce (approximately) truthful statements. An information content entity that is intended to be a truthful statement about something (modulo, e.g., measurement precision or other systematic errors) and is constructed/acquired by a method which reliably tends to produce (approximately) truthful statements. |
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