Canonical Record

A Canonical Record is a Data Record that is a Canonical Referencer (to some Referent).

• AKA: Canonical Data Record.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) have a Canonical Record Identifier.
  • It can be a member of a Canonical Record Set.
  • It can be a Curated Record (verified by a Data Curator).
  • It can be of high Data Quality.
  • It can contain the the basic or fundamental information preserved from a transaction.
  • It can have a Version.
  • It can have a Timestamp.
  • It can be produced by a Record Canonicalization Task.
  • It can be in a Semantic Equivalence Relation with a Referencer (such as a Concept Mention).
  • It can be a High-Quality Data Record (contains Data Values with high Data Quality correct and interpretable).
  • It can range from being a Canonical Entity Record to being a Canonical Relation Record.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • [Name.First=Mohandas, Name.Middle=Karamchand, Name.Family=Gandhi, Birth.Year=1869, Birth.Month=10, Birth.Day=2], a Person Record.
  • A Swiss-Prot Record.
  • A Canonical Entity Record.
  • A Canonical Schema for use in data interchange.
  • An Ontology Concept, e.g. the record for Periplasm in the Gene Ontology (http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/term-details.cgi?term=GO:0042597 )
  • A Canonical File Format.
  • A Canonical Document, such as the constitution.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Concept Mention.
• See: Canonical, Provenance Task.

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