Class: E90.Symbolic_Object
http://erlangen-crm.org/100302/E90.Symbolic_Object
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comment: "This class comprises identifiable symbols and any aggregation of symbols, such as characters,
identifiers, traffic signs, emblems, texts, data sets, images, musical scores, multimedia objects,
computer program code or mathematical formulae that have an objectively recognizable
structure and that are documented as single units.
It includes sets of signs of any nature, which may serve to designate something, or to
communicate some propositional content.
An instance of E90 Symbolic Object does not depend on a specific physical carrier, which can
include human memory, and it can exist on one or more carriers simultaneously. An instance
of E90 Symbolic Object may or may not have a specific meaning, for example an arbitrary
character string.
Examples:
-'ecognizabl'
-The "no-smoking" sign (E36)
- 'BM000038850.JPG' (E75)
- image BM000038850.JPG from the Clayton Herbarium in London (E38)
- The distribution of form, tone and colour found on Leonardo da Vinci s painting named
"Mona Lisa" (E38)
- The Italian text of Dante's "Divina Commedia" as found in the authoritative critical
edition La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata a cura di Giorgio Petrocchi, Milano:
Mondadori, 1966-67 (= Le Opere di Dante Alighieri, Edizione Nazionale a cura della
Societa Dantesca Italiana, VII, 1-4) (E33)" (string)
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