]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. NewsAgency The collection of organizations that collect and transmit information about current events of regional or worldwide interest. Elements of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv5UVvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsAgency</a> may be either independent, commercial companies or state-run organizations. wire service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_agency news agency press agencies news agencies wire services press agency AssociatedPress-NewsOrganization the Associated Press Al Jazeera AlJazeera-MediaOrganization Agence France-Presse AgenceFrance-Presse Kyodo News International KyodoNewsInternational XinhuaNewsAgency Xinhua News Agency Reuters ReutersPressAgency ITAR-TASS ITAR-TASS United Press International UnitedPressInternational IslamicRepublicNewsAgency IRNA The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) is the first Iranian news agency. Founded in 1934 as the Pars Agency, it changed its name to Pars News Agency in 1965. After the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv7KwipwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IranRevolution_1978_1979</a> the agency increased its activities and news coverage. In October 1981 the Islamic Consultative Assembly approved the name change to IRNA. Presently the IRNA has bureaus in over 30 major cities around the world, as well as many correspondents. AFP AssociatedFreePress NewsAgency The collection of organizations that collect and transmit information about current events of regional or worldwide interest. Elements of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv5UVvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsAgency</a> may be either independent, commercial companies or state-run organizations. wire service Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString NewsAgency The collection of organizations that collect and transmit information about current events of regional or worldwide interest. Elements of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv5UVvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsAgency</a> may be either independent, commercial companies or state-run organizations. wire service A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> (q.v.). Moreover, each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a collection that is temporally stuff-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>) but physically-spatially object-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a>) -- i.e. object-like with respect to some physical-spatial part-whole predicate (e.g. some specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r8a2smPXcQdiEoJhcx65EiQ" class="cyc_term">properPhysicalDecompositions</a>). Consider the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a>. Further, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is temporally stuff-like: any one of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> of a given copy <code>COPY</code> of (say) "Moby Dick" is still a copy of "Moby Dick". (Most collections of tangible objects are temporally stuff-like in this way.) But <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is spatially object-like: if we take a scalpel and slice <code>COPY</code> into ten pieces, each piece is not a copy of "Moby Dick". So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>. ExistingObjectType type of object NewsAgency The collection of organizations that collect and transmit information about current events of regional or worldwide interest. Elements of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv5UVvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsAgency</a> may be either independent, commercial companies or state-run organizations. wire service NewsAgency The collection of organizations that collect and transmit information about current events of regional or worldwide interest. Elements of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv5UVvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsAgency</a> may be either independent, commercial companies or state-run organizations. wire service NewsAgency The collection of organizations that collect and transmit information about current events of regional or worldwide interest. Elements of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv5UVvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NewsAgency</a> may be either independent, commercial companies or state-run organizations. wire service NewsOrganization Any organization that produces <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjb0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">News</a>. news organization