SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference

Supports treating an example as documentation of a concept (skos:example is a note property, section 7) rather than as an assertion about the world, so one exemplar can show a kind's shape without claiming to be a record.

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What it informs — 5

• enforcedAn exemplar shows the shape a record takes
• enforcedState and intent are read against one ordered lifecycle
• enforcedA term may be known by other names, and they are labels, not terms
• enforcedThe model is written in the standards its foundations name
• enforcedA text answers one question, in the reader's words

This source is what the model was built from. It does not itself commit the model to anything — a commitment does, and the ones it informs are named above.