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Reference Systems subclass of Directive vs Descriptive Information Entity? #147
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Reference Systems are currently a subclass of Descriptive Information Content Entity. I am speculating that they are really a subclass of Directive Information Content Entity under the interpretation that a reference system provides a recipe for creating Designative Information Content Entities. I'm specifically interested in spatial and temporal reference systems at the moment. For example, a spatial coordinate system tells us how to create a set of coordinates (a kind of name/identifier) of a site.
There are three subclasses of Reference System, currently. I've thought about the spatial and temporal reference systems but not as much as the third subclass, a priority scale.
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nklsbckmnn commentedon Apr 10, 2022
I agree that Directive Information Content Entity seems to be a better choice of genus for reference systems.
At first sight, reference systems also seem to be able to be understood as specifications of types of a concrete reference. E. g. "12 am" seems to be an instance of "Twelve-Hour Clock Time System reference" and "Twelve-Hour Clock Time System" could be understood as a specification of that type. And, if I understand correctly, we have at least one other example where something like a type specification has been represented as a Directive Information Content Entity, namely Artifact Model: "A Directive Information Content Entity that prescribes a common set of Functions and Qualities to inhere in a set of artifact instances."