Michele Pasin / Quotes

1.1 Classical Vie

1.1 Classical View During the early years of discussion of web identifiers (early to mid 90s), people assumed that an identifer type would be cast into one of…

Uris, Urls, And Urns: Clarifications And Recommendations 1.0 #space #scheme #class

A class is a category of shared traits

A class is a category of items that share one or more common traits serving as criteria to identify the items belonging to the class.

Cidoc-crm Version 4.2.4 - Reference Document #traits #class #categories #items #criteria

Augustine divides the sign into natural signs and given signs

Augustine divides the sign into the two main classes of natural signs (signa naturalia) and given signs (signa data). “Natural signs are those which, apart…

Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan) #animals #fire #extent #class

Classes model types, not instances

Classes (also called "terms" in this guide) model types of objects or processes in the real world. Note that classes model types, not instances. For example…

An Introduction To Obo Ontologies #class #objects #real-world #instances #types

Communities need their own vocabularies

RDF provides a way to express simple statements about resources, using named properties and values. However, RDF user communities also need the ability to…

Rdf Primer #properties #class #specific-properties #statements

Instance of a class

An instance of a class is an item that has the traits that match the criteria of the intension of the class.

Cidoc-crm Version 4.2.4 - Reference Document #class #instances #criteria #intension #items #traits