CoinsCore:Concept Class

Concept is a subclass of owl:Thing. Concept serves as superclass of all classes in a COINS model.
It is without any properties or references.
Concept acts an abstract class; it can not be instantiated directly. Individuals belong indirectly to this class.
Concept is not extendable; in the Coins Core Model it is extended to Entity, VersionObject, ExpiredEntity, CataloguePart and CoinsContainerObject.
Concept is the common superclass for all other COINS classes.

History
* New in COINS 2.0 - replaces Cbim:CbimObject

Informative representation in UML

Informative representation of Concept in UML

This image shows the informative representation of the Concept class.

Formal Representation in RDF/XML

 <owl:Class rdf:ID="Concept">

   <rdfs:label xml:lang="en-GB">CbimEntity</rdfs:label>
   <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en-GB">Abstract superclass for all Cbim classes. This class is without any properties or relations</rdfs:comment>

   <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="owl:Thing"/>

   <isClassAbstract rdf:datatype="xsd:boolean">true</isClassAbstract>
   <isClassExtendable rdf:datatype="xsd:boolean">false</isClassExtendable>

   <classCreator rdf:resource="#COINSTechnicalManagementGroup"/>
   <classCreationDate rdf:datatype="xsd:dateTime">2016-04-04T12:00:00.00</classCreationDate>
   <classVersionID rdf:datatype="xsd:string">1.0</classVersionID>

 </owl:Class>