Class: InformationEntity

An abstract (non-physical) entity that is about something.

URI: vaspec:InformationEntity

Parents

• is_a: Entity - Anything that exists, has existed, or will exist.

Children

• DataItem - An InformationEntity representing an individual piece of data, generated/acquired through methods which reliably produce truthful information about something.
• DataSet - A collection of related data items or records that are organized together in a common format or structure, to enable their computational manipulation as a unit.
• Document - A collection of information, usually in human-readable form, intended to be read and understood together as a whole.
• EvidenceLine - A discrete, independent argument relevant to the validity of the Proposition put forth as true in the Statement, that is based on the interpretation of one or more pieces of information as evidence.
• Method - A set of instructions that specify how to achieve some objective (e.g. study/experimental protocols, curation guidelines, rule sets, etc.)
• Statement - An information entity expressing a declarative sentence that is either true or false.
• StudyResult - A collection of select data items from a single study that are about a particular subject or experimental unit - and may include provenance metadata describing how these data were generated.

Referenced by Class

• Contribution Contribution➞contributionMadeTo _0..1 InformationEntity
• Entity Entity➞reference _0..* InformationEntity
• EvidenceLine EvidenceLine➞evidenceItemSource _0..* InformationEntity
• EvidenceLine EvidenceLine➞hasEvidenceItem _0..* InformationEntity
• InformationEntity InformationEntity➞derivedFrom _0..* InformationEntity
• InformationEntity InformationEntity➞hasPart _0..* InformationEntity
• InformationEntity InformationEntity➞partOf _0..* InformationEntity
• Statement Statement➞hasEvidence _0..* InformationEntity
• Statement Statement➞hasEvidenceFromSource _0..* InformationEntity

Attributes

Own

• InformationEntity➞isAbout _0..*
  • Description: An entity or concept in the world that the information entity describes/is about.
  • Range: Entity
• InformationEntity➞qualifiedContribution _0..*
  • Description: A specific contribution made by some Agent to the creation, modification, or validation of the information represented in the Information Entity.
  • Range: Contribution
• InformationEntity➞dateAuthored _0..1
  • Description: The date the information content expressed in this entity was generated.
  • Range: Ga4ghDateTime
• InformationEntity➞wasSpecifiedBy _0..*
  • Description: A plan specification that describes all or part of the process through which the information was generated.
  • Range: Method
• InformationEntity➞derivedFrom _0..*
  • Description: An information resource from which the Information Entity is derived, in whole or in part
  • Range: InformationEntity
• InformationEntity➞wasOutputOf _0..*
  • Description: An activity that generated the Entity.
  • Range: Activity
• InformationEntity➞hasPart _0..*
  • Description: Any part of the Information Entity (e.g. individual value or record from a larger data set, a section of a larger document)
  • Range: InformationEntity
• InformationEntity➞partOf _0..*
  • Description: A larger Information Entity of which the present Information Entity is a part.
  • Range: InformationEntity
• InformationEntity➞isReportedIn _0..*
  • Description: A document in which the information content carried by the Information Entity is expressed
  • Range: Document
• InformationEntity➞confidenceLevel _0..1
  • Description: A qualitative term describing the degree of confidence held by the creator of the information entity, that the information it represents is true (e.g. 'high confidence', 'likely true', 'low confidence').
  • Range: Coding
• InformationEntity➞confidenceScore _0..1
  • Description: A quantitative score reflecting the degree of confidence held by the creator of the information entity, that the information it represents is true.
  • Range: DataItem
• InformationEntity➞version _0..1
  • Description: The version of the Information Entity (to be used in cases where version is not reflected in the id or identifiers associated with the entity).
  • Range: String
• InformationEntity➞license _0..1
  • Description: The type of license that dictates legal permissions for how a resource (e.g. dataset, document, protocol) can be used - typically referenced by its URL.
  • Range: String

Inherited from Entity:

• Element➞extensionElement _0..*
  • Description: A key-value data structure that allows definition of custom fields to capture information not directly supported by the VA specification.
  • Range: Extension
• Entity➞localId _1..1
  • Description: The logical identifier of the entity in the system of record, e.g. a UUID. This 'id' is unique within a given system. The identified entity may have a different 'id' in a different system.
  • Range: Identifier
• Entity➞globalIdentifier _0..*
  • Description: A business identifier or accession number for the entity, typically as provided by an external system or authority, that is globally unique and persists across implementing systems.
  • Range: Identifier
• Entity➞type _1..1
  • Description: The schema class that is instantiated by the data object. Must be the name of a class from the VA schema.
  • Range: Class
• Entity➞label _0..1
  • Description: A primary name for the Entity.
  • Range: String
• Entity➞alternativeLabel _0..*
  • Description: An alternative name for the Entity.
  • Range: String
• Entity➞description _0..1
  • Description: A free text description of the Entity.
  • Range: String
• Entity➞hasURL _0..*
  • Description: The URL/web address of a digital resource representing the entity, or providing information about it.
  • Range: Url
• Entity➞reference _0..*
  • Description: A document or other Information Entity that describes the Entity.
  • Range: InformationEntity
• Entity➞xref _0..*
  • Description: A cross-reference to database identifier(s) representing the same or a closely related entity or concept as the Entity.
  • Range: String
• Entity➞thisRecordMeta _0..1
  • Description: A reusable structure that encapsulates provenance metadata about the present record/data object (as opposed to provenance information about the real world entity this record/data object represents).
  • Range: RecordMetadata
• Entity➞sourceRecordMeta _0..*
  • Description: A reusable structure that encapsulates provenance metadata that applies to an upstream record/data objdct about the Entity, from which content of the present record was derived.
  • Range: RecordMetadata

Other properties

Aliases:		Information Content Entity, ICE
Comments:		Information Entities represent the abstract 'information content' encoded in physical or digital artifacts such as books, photographs, files, web pages, the neural connections of a human brain, etc. They are independent of any specific language, representational format, or physical/digital medium. In the FRBR model, this corresponds to the 'Works' level of representation.
Exact Mappings:		IAO:0000030