Terminology Service for NFDI4Health
textual entity
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A textual entity is a part of a manifestation (FRBR sense), a generically dependent continuant whose concretizations are patterns of glyphs intended to be interpreted as words, formulas, etc.
Term info
Label
textual entity
alternative term
text
editor note
AR, (IAO call 2009-09-01): a document as a whole is not typically a textual entity, because it has pictures in it - rather there are parts of it that are textual entities. Examples: The title, paragraph 2 sentence 7, etc., MC, 2009-09-14 (following IAO call 2009-09-01): textual entities live at the FRBR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Requirements_for_Bibliographic_Records) manifestation level. Everything is significant: line break, pdf and html versions of same document are different textual entities.
editor preferred term
textual entity
example of usage
Words, sentences, paragraphs, and the written (non-figure) parts of publications are all textual entities
has curation status
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000123
term editor
PERSON: Lawrence Hunter