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span:Process leaf node

URI

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

Label

process

Description

Examples: the life of an organism, the process of sleeping, the process of cell-division - Definition: A processual entity [span:ProcessualEntity] that is a maximally connected spatiotemporal whole and has bona fide beginnings and endings corresponding to real discontinuities.

Superclasses (3)

  • span:ProcessualEntity
  • span:Occurrent
  • bfo:Entity

    • Usage

    Instances of span:Process 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 owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix span: <http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/span#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

span:Process a owl:Class ;
    rdfs:label "process"^^xsd:string ;
    rdfs:comment "Definition: A processual entity [span:ProcessualEntity] that is a maximally connected spatiotemporal whole and has bona fide beginnings and endings corresponding to real discontinuities."^^xsd:string,
        "Examples: the life of an organism, the process of sleeping, the process of cell-division"^^xsd:string ;
    rdfs:subClassOf span:ProcessualEntity ;
    owl:disjointWith span:FiatProcessPart,
        span:ProcessAggregate,
        span:ProcessBoundary,
        span:ProcessualContext .