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Performance Summary Display Ontology
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February 10, 2026
| Id | http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000015
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000015
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| Preferred Name | information carrier |
| Definitions |
A quality of an information bearer that imparts the information content
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| Type | http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class |
All Properties
| definition | A quality of an information bearer that imparts the information content |
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| label | information carrier
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| prefLabel | information carrier
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| editor preferred label | information carrier
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| editor note | 2014-03-10: We are not certain that all information carriers are qualities. There was a discussion of dropping it.
12/15/09: There is a concern that some ways that carry information may be processes rather than qualities, such as in a 'delayed wave carrier'.
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| term editor | PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg
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| definition source | Smith, Ceusters, Ruttenberg, 2000 years of philosophy
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| prefixIRI | IAO:0000015
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| example of usage | In the case of a printed paperback novel the physicality of the ink and of the paper form part of the information bearer. The qualities of appearing black and having a certain pattern for the ink and appearing white for the paper form part of the information carrier in this case.
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