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span:Occurrent

URI

http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/span#Occurrent

Label

occurrent

Description

Examples: the life of an organism, a surgical operation as processual context for a nosocomical infection, the spatiotemporal context occupied by a process of cellular meiosis, the most interesting part of Van Gogh's life, the spatiotemporal region occupied by the development of a cancer tumor - Synonyms: perdurant - Definition: An entity [bfo:Entity] that has temporal parts and that happens, unfolds or develops through time. Sometimes also called perdurants.

Superclasses (1)

  • bfo:Entity

    • Usage

    Instances of span:Occurrent can have the following properties:

    PROPERTYTYPEDESCRIPTIONRANGE
    From class owl:Thing
    dc:contributor owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:creator owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:format owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:identifier owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:language owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:publisher owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:rights owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:source owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:title owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing

    Implementation

    @prefix bfo: <http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix snap: <http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#> .
@prefix span: <http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/span#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

span:Occurrent a owl:Class ;
    rdfs:label "occurrent"^^xsd:string ;
    rdfs:comment "Definition: An entity [bfo:Entity] that has temporal parts and that happens, unfolds or develops through time. Sometimes also called perdurants."^^xsd:string,
        "Examples: the life of an organism, a surgical operation as processual context for a nosocomical infection, the spatiotemporal context occupied by a process of cellular meiosis, the most interesting part of Van Gogh's life, the spatiotemporal region occupied by the development of a cancer tumor"^^xsd:string,
        "Synonyms: perdurant"^^xsd:string ;
    rdfs:subClassOf bfo:Entity ;
    owl:disjointWith snap:Continuant ;
    owl:equivalentClass [ a owl:Class ;
            owl:unionOf ( span:ProcessualEntity span:SpatiotemporalRegion span:TemporalRegion ) ] .