Self-Annotating Identifiers       INDEX -- SPECS -- EDITOR -- USES


We all know 20 QUESTIONS let one model something well enough to SEMANTICALLY distinguish it from most other things.  This one-page "upper ontology" begins such a process, by asking you general questions about the meaning of one NOUN in your Namespace.

Your answers will mutate into a unique URI for it, custom-made to publicly model its nature and axioms as you envision them. Try it. See if you don't agree this form can build a URI which loosely models the noun meaning you have in mind:


   <= symbol

 What meaning do you assign it?


  1. Make 6 binary choices in blue area
     
  2. Is it Composite or a Characteristic
     
  3. Submit via best-fit sub-Type option
     

Individual


Collective
Specific Indefinite
Real Imaginary

Natural Artificial
Concrete Information
Basic Mediating
Thing
------Entity
------------      Substance
------------Object
------Occurrent
------------Situation
------------Process
Aspect
------Identifier
------------Name
------------Locator
------Property
------------      DataType
------------Associate


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