An information content entity whose concretizations indicate to their bearer how to realize them in a process.

8/6/2009 Alan Ruttenberg: Changed label from "information entity about a realizable" after discussions at ICBO, 2013-05-30 Alan Ruttenberg: What differentiates a directive information entity from an information concretization is that it can have concretizations that are either qualities or realizable entities. The concretizations that are realizable entities are created when an individual chooses to take up the direction, i.e. has the intention to (try to) realize it., 2009-03-16: provenance: a term realizable information entity was proposed for OBI (OBI_0000337) , edited by the PlanAndPlannedProcess branch. Original definition was "is the specification of a process that can be concretized and realized by an actor" with alternative term "instruction".It has been subsequently moved to IAO where the objective for which the original term was defined was satisfied with the definitionof this, different, term., Werner pushed back on calling it realizable information entity as it isn't realizable. However this name isn't right either. An example would be a recipe. The realizable entity would be a plan, but the information entity isn't about the plan, it, once concretized, *is* the plan. -Alan

directive information entity

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000123, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000122

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obi.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/iao.owl

PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg, PERSON: Bjoern Peters