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| Name | Abbreviation | Description |
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| assignment | A | Captures the assignment of an IUI to a particular (or instance) |
| particular to universal | PtoU | Captures the assertion that a particular, identified by an IUI, is related to a universal by a particular relation. It is typically used for the instance of relation. |
| temporal entity | Te | Captures the assignment of an IUI to a temporal entity, as well as the basic type (interval vs. instant) of the temporal entity. This template is a "shortcut" combination of assignment and particular-to-universal for temporal entities. It and the Ten template help to reduce significantly the number of templates needed to capture temporal entities and their names. |
| temporal entity name | Ten | Captures the name of a temporal entity (e.g. "2013-10" for the month of October in the Gregorian Calendar according to the ISO 8601 standard). Names of other entities are explicitly represented with an A template (assign IUI to name), a PtoP template (relate name to the entity it designates), and a PtoDR template (relate name to its concretized form). |
| particular to particular | PtoP | Captures the assertion that two particulars are related by a particular relation such as part of. |
| particular lacks universal | PtoLackU | Captures the assertion that a particular lacks a specific relation r to any instance of a universal. |
| particular to concept | PtoCo | Captures the annotation of a particular with a concept from a concept-based terminology. It does NOT assert that the particular is an instance of a given type (or universal), is related to other particulars by specific relations, or lacks a relation to any instance of a given universal. |
| particular to digital entity | PtoDE | |
| metadata | D | |
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PtoLackU
The particular-lacks-universal template captures the assertion that a given particular does not stand in a given relation r to any instance of a given universal. For example, we would use this template to assert that a person has not had a cough for the past 4 weeks (i.e., he has not participated in any coughing processes during the 4 week interval ending today).
| Parameter | Description | Notes |
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| iuip | The IUI that designates the particular that is the subject of this template | |
| iuia | The IUI that designates the author of this template | |
| ta | The IUI that designates the temporal region at which this PtoU assertion was made | |
| r | The relation that does not hold between the particular denoted by iuip and any instance of the universal denoted by uui | |
| uui | The UUI that designates the universal to which the particular is not related by r | Typically a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) from an OWL ontology. But not necessary. |
| iuio | The IUI of the ontology from which uui and r were obtained | Increasingly, this parameter seems irrelevant. Although MIREOT allows that a given URI for a universal could come from any number of ontologies, it is not clear that it is valuable to say which one it came from specifically. Furthermore, we might have taken the relation (inst) and uui from different ontologies. It is not clear how to handle that situation either. |
| tr | The temporal region during which the relation r does not hold between the particular (iuip) and universal (uui) | |
| iuit | The IUI of the template itself | Every template gets an IUI that is referenced minimally by one metadata template. |
PtoCo
PtoDE
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