Subclass of:

• crm:E89 Propositional Object

Scope note:

This class comprises associations between an instance of any class, and signs or arrangements of signs that are used to refer to and identify that instance.

Signs include alphanumeric characters, ideograms, notations such as chemical structure symbols, sound symbols, etc. The scripts or type sets for the symbols used to compose an instance of F12 Nomen have to be sufficiently specified. Spelling variants are regarded as different nomens, whereas the use of different fonts (visual representation variants) or different digital encodings do not change the identity.

An arbitrary combination of signs or symbols cannot be regarded as an appellation or designation until it is associated with something in some context. In that sense, the F12 Nomen class can be understood as the reification of a relationship between an instance of E1 CRM Entity and an instance of E41 Appellation. Two instances of F12 Nomen can happen to be associated with equivalent strings and yet remain distinct, as long as they refer to distinct instances of E1 CRM Entity. Furthermore, two instances of F12 Nomen referring to the same instance of E1 CRM Entity may be associated with equivalent strings, and remain distinct as long as they are associated with distinct properties of the F12 Nomen class (for example, having the same spelling in different languages, or being defined in different controlled vocabularies).

An instance of F12 Nomen associates a combination of signs with an instance of E1 CRM Entity on the basis of a cultural or linguistic convention: by associating a string with anything, the instance of F12 Nomen establishes a meaning that is not inherent in the instance of E62 String that is associated with it. Depending on context of use, nomens associated with equivalent strings can be associated with instances of different things in the real world even within the same language (polysemy and homonymy). Conversely, the same thing can be referred to through any number of nomens (synonymy). In the controlled environment of a bibliographic information system, though, homonymy is avoided.

Instances of F12 Nomen are assigned and associated with instances of E1 CRM Entity either formally (such as by bibliographic agencies) or informally through common usage. When they are assigned formally, the construction of the instances of E62 String that represent them may follow predetermined rules.

Examples:

• ‘杜甫’ as the name for a Chinese poet of the 8 th century, rendered in simplified Chinese characters
• ‘Du Fu’ as the name for a Chinese poet of the 8 th century, rendered in Pinyin romanised form
• ‘Tu Fu’ as the name for a Chinese poet of the 8 th century, rendered in another romanised form
• ‘Thơ Ðô Phủ’ as the name for a Chinese poet of the 8th century, rendered in a Vietnamese form
• ‘‫صفاقس‬ ‫’جامعة‬ as the name for Sfax University (Tunisia), rendered in Arabic in Arabic script
• ‘Ğāmi‘at̀̀̀̀ Ṣafāqis’ as the name for Sfax University (Tunisia), rendered in transliterated Arabic
• ‘Université de Sfax’ as the name for Sfax University (Tunisia), rendered in French
• ‘3-[(2S)-1-methylpyrrolidin-2-yl]pyridine’ as the term for nicotine, rendered in the IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry
• ‘Murders in the rue Morgue’ as the title of the textual work by Edgar Allan Poe, in English
• ‘Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Murders in the rue Morgue’ as the name of the textual work, formulated as a controlled author/title access point appropriate for an English language catalogue
• ‘modelling’ as the term for the activity, in English using British spelling
• ‘modeling’ as the term for the activity, in English using American spelling
• ‘Maxwell equations’ as the term for these equations, formulated as the preferred subject access point from LCSH, http://lccn.loc.gov/sh85082387, as of 27 March 2012 [date of last update]
• ‘Equations, Maxwell’ as the term for these equations, formulated as a variant subject access point, from the same source
• ‘Gontcharova, Nathalie (1881-1962)’ as the name of the Russian artist, formulated as an preferred access point from the authority file of the National Library of France,
  http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119547494/PUBLIC, as of 11 March 2015 [date of last update]
• ‘Gončarova, Natalʹâ Sergeevna (1881-1962)’ as the name of the Russian artist, formulated as a variant access point for a personal name, transliterated using ISO 9:1995 ‘Information and documentation — Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters — Slavic and non-Slavic languages’, also from the authority file of the National Library of France
• ‘Гончарова, Наталья Сергеевна (1881-1962)’ as the name of the Russian artist, formulated as a variant access point in Cyrillic script, also from the authority file of the National Library of France
• ‘595.7’ as a classification number for insects (the taxonomic class Insecta), in the 23rd edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification
• ‘Insecta’ as a term for insects (the taxonomic class Insecta), used as the caption for the class
• ‘595.7’ in the English language 23rd edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification
• ‘spa’ as a code to designate the language Spanish, drawn from the ‘Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code’ (ISO 639-2:1998)

In First Order Logic:

• F12(x) ⇒ E89(x)

Outgoing properties:

• lrmoo:R8 combines (is combined to form) (0,n:0,n) → lrmoo:F12 Nomen
• lrmoo:R33 has string (0,n:1,1) → crm:E62 String
• lrmoo:R35 is specified by (specifies) (1,n:1,1) → lrmoo:F2 Expression
• lrmoo:R36 uses script conversion (is script conversion used in) (0,n:0,n) → lrmoo:F36 Script Conversion
• lrmoo:R54 has language (is language of) (0,n:0,n) → crm:E56 Language
• lrmoo:R56 has related form (is related form of) (0,n:0,n) → lrmoo:F12 Nomen

Incoming properties:

• lrmoo:F12 Nomen → lrmoo:R8 combines (is combined to form) (0,n:0,n)
• lrmoo:F12 Nomen → lrmoo:R56 has related form (is related form of) (0,n:0,n)