Definition of document needs refine?

[Asiyah Yu Lin]

Definition of a document says: 

Term IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000310

Definition: A collection of information content entities intended to be understood together as a whole.

definition editor: Lawrence Hunter

example of usage: A journal article, patent application, laboratory notebook, or a book

has curation status: metadata complete

The example of usage is a book, or a journal article.

My question is 

If a serials of books are treated as a whole, such as CFR, which is divided into 200 volumns and in several physical books (count>5).

CFR is my use case here.

Is the CFR a document?

Another question:

Is a book a document? 

Although the example of book has given in the annotation of this term, there is no subclass book under document.

Please help to figure it out.

Asiyah 

[Bill Duncan]

Hi Asiyah,

Given the ambiguity in the definition of document, I think you have to make a choice based on how the term is be applied in your use case. I normally (and I think most don't) call a CFR or a set of encyclopedias a document. So, I would represent a CFR as an aggregate of documents. Others will most likely disagree, but hopefully my comments are helpful.

-- Bill

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[Jie Zheng]

Agree with Bill.

Considering data item in IAO, it has a child, data set, a collection of data item in same type. I think you can represent CFR using same approach. About whether an entity is an aggregate object or not, it's depend on what is an individual in your case. That's why in OBI, we do not define any terms under aggregate object.

Jie