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| x Person | FOAF |
A person is a legal concept both permitting rights to and imposing duties on one by law. In the fields of law, philosophy, medicine, and others, the term has specialised context-specific meanings.
In many jurisdictions, for example, a corporation is...
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| x Organization | FOAF |
An organization (or organisation — see spelling differences) is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, controls its own performance, and has a boundary separating it from its environment. The word itself is derived from the Greek word...
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| x Album |
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MusicBrainz Metadata Vocabulary |
An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their...
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| x Track | MusicBrainz Metadata Vocabulary |
On an optical disc, a track (CD) or title (DVD) is a subdivision of its content. Specifically, it is a consecutive set of sectors on the disc containing a block of data. One session may contain one or more tracks of the same or different types....
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| x Musician |
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MusicBrainz Metadata Vocabulary |
A musician is a person who performs or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:
Conductor · leader · Concertmaster
Composer · Songwriter · arranger · Orchestrator
Bassist or Double bassist ·...
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| x Geocode | Geo |
GEOCODE (Geospatial Entity Object Code) is a standardized all-natural number representation format specification for geospatial coordinate measurements that provide details of the exact location of geospatial point at, below, or above the surface of...
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| x Country |
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OpenCalais |
In geography, a country is a geographical region. The term is often applied to a political division or the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. Usually, but not always, a country coincides...
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| x Calendar date |
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OpenCalais |
A date in a calendar is a reference to a particular day represented within a calendar system. The calendar date allows the specific day to be identified. The number of days between two dates may be calculated. For example, "24 December 2009" is ten...
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| x E-mail address | OpenCalais |
An e-mail address identifies a location to which e-mail messages can be delivered. An e-mail address on the modern Internet looks like, for example, jsmith@example.com and is usually read as "jsmith at example dot com". Many earlier e-mail systems...
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| x Uniform Resource Locator | OpenCalais |
In computing, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a subset of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it. In popular usage and in many technical documents and...
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| x Continent |
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OpenCalais |
A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. In geography, they are identified by convention rather than any strict criterion, with seven regions commonly regarded as continents—they are (from largest to smallest): Asia, Africa, North...
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OpenCalais |
A city is a relatively large and permanent settlement, particularly a large urban settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular...
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| x Province of China |
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OpenCalais |
A province, in the context of Chinese government, is a translation of sheng (Chinese: 省; pinyin: shěng), which is an administrative division. Together with municipalities, autonomous regions, and the special administrative regions, provinces make up...
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| x Building |
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OpenCalais |
In architecture, construction, engineering and real estate development the word building may refer to one of the following:
In this article, the first usage is generally intended unless otherwise specified.
Buildings come in a wide amount of shapes...
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| x Public company | OpenCalais |
A public company or publicly traded company is a company that has permission to offer its registered securities (stock, bonds, etc.) for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange, or occasionally a company whose stock is traded...
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| x License | Creative Commons Ontology |
The verb license or grant license means to give permission. The noun license (licence in English, British, Canadian and Indian spelling) refers to that permission as well as to the document memorializing that permission. License may be granted by a...
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| x Newsletter |
A newsletter is a regularly distributed publication generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscribers. Newspapers and leaflets are types of newsletters. Additionally, newsletters delivered electronically via email (e-Newsletters)...
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| x Mailing list |
A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. The term is often extended to include the people subscribed to such a list, so the group of subscribers is...
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Description of a Project |
Software versioning is the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software. Within a given version number category (major, minor), these numbers are generally assigned in increasing...
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Description of a Project |
A project in business and science is a collaborative enterprise, frequently involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim.
The word project comes from the Latin word projectum from the Latin verb proicere, "to...
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| x Repository | Description of a Project |
Repository commonly refers to a location for storage, often for safety or preservation.
Repository may also refer to:
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| x Map |
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GeoNames |
A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes.
Many maps are static two-dimensional, geometrically accurate (or approximately accurate)...
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| x Concept | UMBEL |
There are two prevailing theories in contemporary philosophy which attempt to explain the nature of concepts (abstract term: conception). The representational theory of mind proposes that concepts are mental representations, while the semantic...
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| x Topic | SKOS |
In linguistics, topic has a number of definitions. Among the most common are
In an ordinary English sentence, the subject is normally the same as the topic. For example, the topic is emphasized in italics in the following sentences:
Although these...
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| x User |
Users in a computing context refers to one who uses a computer system. Users may need to identify themselves for the purposes of accounting, security, logging and resource management. In order to identify oneself, a user has an account (a user...
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| x Application programming interface | UMBEL |
An application programming interface (API) is an interface implemented by a software program to enable interaction with other software, much in the same way that a user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers. APIs are...
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| x Chapter | Bibliographic Ontology |
A chapter is one of the main divisions of a piece of writing of relative length, such as a book. Chapters can be numbered in the case of such writings as law code (see Chapter 7 or Chapter 11) or they can be titled. For example, the first chapters...
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| x Academic journal |
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Bibliographic Ontology |
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique...
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| x Interview |
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Bibliographic Ontology |
An interview is a conversation between two or more people (the interviewer and the interviewee) where questions are asked by the interviewer to obtain information from the interviewee.
Several publications give prominence to interviews, including:
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| x Newspaper |
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Bibliographic Ontology |
A newspaper is a publication containing news, information, and advertising. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on political events, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports. Most traditional papers also feature an...
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| x Brief | Bibliographic Ontology |
A brief (Latin "brevis", short) is a written legal document used in various legal adversarial systems that is presented to a court arguing why the party to the case should prevail.
In England and Wales, the phrase refers to the papers given to a...
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| x Bill | Bibliographic Ontology |
Bill is a term used to describe proposed laws as they pass through the legislature in the American and Westminster systems of government.
A Bill refers to a proposed law as it is considered by the legislature. A Bill does not become law until it is...
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| x Academic conference |
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Bibliographic Ontology |
An academic conference is a conference for researchers (not always academics) to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers....
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| x Email | Bibliographic Ontology | ||
| x Film |
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Bibliographic Ontology |
Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films (also referred to as movies or motion pictures) are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images...
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FOAF |
An image (from Latin imago) is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.
Images may be two-dimensional, such as a photograph, screen display, and as well...
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| x Manual |
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Bibliographic Ontology |
A manual is a keyboard designed to be played with the hands on a pipe organ, harpsichord, clavichord, electronic organ, or synthesizer. The term "manual" is used with regard to any hand keyboard on these instruments to distinguish it from the...
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A manuscript is a recording of information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand...
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| x Hearing | Bibliographic Ontology |
In law, a hearing is a proceeding before a court or other decision-making body or officer, such as a government agency.
A hearing is generally distinguished from a trial in that it is usually shorter and often less formal. In the course of...
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| x Periodical publication | Bibliographic Ontology |
A periodical publication, or just periodical, is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule. The most familiar examples are the newspaper, often published daily, or weekly; or the magazine, typically published weekly,...
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| x Performance |
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Bibliographic Ontology |
A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which one group of people (the performer or performers) behave in a particular way for another group of people (the audience). Sometimes the dividing line between performer and the...
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| x Patent |
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Bibliographic Ontology |
A patent (pronounced /ˈpætənt/ or /ˈpeɪtənt/) is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state (national government) to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention.
The procedure for...
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| x Statute |
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Bibliographic Ontology |
A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs a state, city, or county. Typically, statutes command or prohibit something, or declare policy. The word is often used to distinguish law made by legislative bodies from...
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| x Website | Bibliographic Ontology |
A website (also spelled web site) is a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed with a common domain name or IP address in an Internet Protocol-based network. A web site is hosted on at least one web...
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| x Absorption |
In physics, absorption of electromagnetic radiation is the way by which the energy of a photon is taken up by matter, typically the electrons of an atom. Thus, the electromagnetic energy is transformed to other forms of energy, for example, to heat....
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| x Abstract process |
The term abstract process refers to abstractions as being distinguishable as processes—i.e., as concepts which carry a meaning of functionality and operation with regard to other concepts. Within the study of abstractions, the term is used to refer...
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| x Accelerator Mass Spectrometer | |||
| x Aerosol Lidar | |||
| x Airglow Imager | |||
| x All Sky Imager | |||
| x Altitude |
Altitude is defined based on the context in which it is used (aviation, geometry, geographical survey, sport, and more). As a general definition, altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference...
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| x Asteroid |
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Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids. The term "asteroid" has historically been...
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| x Astronomical object |
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Astronomical objects are significant naturally occurring physical entities, associations or structures which current science has demonstrated to exist in outer space. The term astronomical object is sometimes used interchangeably with astronomical...
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