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  1. OMG Issue

COMMONS13 — Constituent term has two issues

  • Key: COMMONS13-23
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: cebe IT & KM ( Mr. Claude Baudoin)
  • Summary:

    1. The first term is shown as "cmns-col;Constituent" – what does the prefix mean???

    2. The annotation starts with "An element is an object..." instead of "A constituent is an object..."

  • Reported: Commons 1.2b1 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 03:06 GMT
  • Disposition: Closed; No Change — COMMONS 1.3b1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Constituent term has two issues

    The first 'issue' was with respect to the namespace prefix, asking what it means. The prefix, 'cmns-col' is defined in clause 7.2, Table 7.2. That table includes all of the namespace prefixes for all ontologies included in the Commons library.

    Secondly, the issue suggests a rephrasing of the explanatory note added to constituent in the structured collections ontology. The note comes from ISO 5127, which uses the term 'element' rather than 'constituent' in a synonymous way. We added the note and synonym in structured collections, with the thought that in the context of that note, the term 'element' was more appropriate (and was what the ISO standard used).

  • Updated: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:18 GMT