]> 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. The collection of generic CompactDiscs often (but not necessarily) used for digital information storage, whether audio, video or other. Subcollections include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvW4n1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CompactDisc_Audio</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjFUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_ROM</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJAempwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_R</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvn9enZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_RW</a>, etc.. compact disc CompactDisc-Generic compact discs CD compact disk CDs compact disks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc cdrw <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvn9enZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_RW</a> or CD-ReWritable is a standardised CompactDisc on which you can write and rewrite data. You re-use the disc space of deleted files (like you do with a floppy or harddisk) or erase the complete disc. Note, the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJAempwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_R</a> contains CompactDiscs that are only `Writeable Once'. CD-RW CD-R cdr <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJAempwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_R</a> is the collection of `Write Once' CompactDiscs. With the use of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv6aBGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_RDrive</a> or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvihOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_RWDrive</a>, a user can record data onto a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJAempwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_R</a> disc. This process can only be performed once per <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJAempwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_R</a> disc. This collection contains both blank and already `burned' or recorded <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJAempwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_R</a>s. Note, the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvn9enZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_RW</a> contains compact discs that are `Rewriteable'. CD-ROM A stable optical data storage medium that uses the same physical format as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvW4n1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CompactDisc_Audio</a>, readable by a computer with a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVu-_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_ROMDrive</a>. CD-ROM A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkJAJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CompactDisc_Generic</a>. Each instance of this collection is designed to be used for storing audio in the CD format, which is most commonly used for music. compact disc CompactDisc-Audio The collection of generic CompactDiscs often (but not necessarily) used for digital information storage, whether audio, video or other. Subcollections include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvW4n1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CompactDisc_Audio</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjFUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_ROM</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJAempwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_R</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvn9enZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_RW</a>, etc.. CompactDisc-Generic compact disc 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 The collection of generic CompactDiscs often (but not necessarily) used for digital information storage, whether audio, video or other. Subcollections include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvW4n1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CompactDisc_Audio</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjFUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_ROM</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJAempwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_R</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvn9enZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_RW</a>, etc.. CompactDisc-Generic compact disc The collection of generic CompactDiscs often (but not necessarily) used for digital information storage, whether audio, video or other. Subcollections include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvW4n1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CompactDisc_Audio</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjFUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_ROM</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJAempwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_R</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvn9enZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_RW</a>, etc.. CompactDisc-Generic compact disc product type The collection of all types of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> things that are usually/frequently commercially manufactured. This is context dependent. ManufacturedGoodsType 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 kind of artifact not distinguished by brand or model An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHQdVmB_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">SecondOrderCollection</a> and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwO3H5pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ArtifactType</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rejmDbrF_QdeIENT1qpbYzQ" class="cyc_term">ArtifactTypeByGenericCategory</a> is a collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkH_ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Artifact</a>s grouped together according to some feature(s) other than brand or model. ArtifactTypeByGenericCategory A collection of collections and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a> (q.v.). Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a> is a collection C of spatial things (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>), where each of the spatial things in C is spatially disjoint with the other spatial things in C. For example, the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaoJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Dog</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a>, since dogs do not spatially overlap. Even pregnant dogs do not spatially overlap the pups they bear; rather, pregnant dogs contain their unborn pups. Other instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwVGrQ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LatitudeLine</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvW4n1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CompactDisc_Audio</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwR7UWZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PlanetaryBody</a>. An important specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a> is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjlE5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointRegionType</a> (a collection of specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViACZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalRegion</a>, such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwT-n15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TrueContinent</a>). spatially disjoint object type SpatiallyDisjointObjectType DiscStorageMedium data storage disc A spec of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjyH5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationStorageMedia</a>, this is the collection of all disks used for storage of information. This includes floppy disks as well as hard disks. The collection of generic CompactDiscs often (but not necessarily) used for digital information storage, whether audio, video or other. Subcollections include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvW4n1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CompactDisc_Audio</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjFUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_ROM</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJAempwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_R</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvn9enZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CD_RW</a>, etc.. CompactDisc-Generic compact disc A collection of collections. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvjSAy5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IBTFormatType</a> are collections of things which store or encode information. Each IBTFormatType is distinguished primarily by the physical format of its instances. For example, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkJAJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CompactDisc_Generic</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjgDpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HardcopyInformationBearingObject</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjRW5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VideoTape</a> are all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvjSAy5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IBTFormatType</a>. Non-examples include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwP2KM5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">JazzMusic</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv2L1npwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StarTrek_TNG</a>, since these are distinguished primarily by the kind of information contained, rather than physical format. (edited ABelasco) type of information bearing thing classified by format IBTFormatType