IAO call - November 3rd 2009

[Melanie Courtot]

Hi all,

During the IAO call this morning we went through a few tracker items:

- http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=64
- measurement datum
definition needs to be updated
AI for AR - DL Nov 4th

- http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=62
- update "eternalDerived" file
AI for MC - DL Nov 4th

- http://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/issues/detail?id=65
- _identifier

We had a discussion on how to define _identifier, label and symbol.

The result summarized:
- symbol: denotes something. cannot be decomposed into parts that
denote the same thing. Examples: letters, words, chinese characters.
- identifier: a symbol that denotes something and is created with the
intend to pick out that something from a larger set. Example: Lot
number, SSN, Pubmed ID
- label: a symbol or textual entity that describes an entity

Some points of the discussion:
- identifiers should be linked to their objective: identifier would be
a defined class
- symbols are unitary information artifact: they cannot be decomposed
into parts denoting the same than the symbol as a whole
- a label doesn't have to be unitary, it can be decomposed. A label is
descriptive, and is not always meant to identify something.

Next call will be next week, using Skype, 9 am PST, noon EST.

Thanks,
Melanie

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Mélanie Courtot
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