narrative object
2009-08-10 Alan Ruttenberg: Larry Hunter suggests that this be obsoleted and replaced by 'textual entity' and 'figure'. Alan restored as there are OBI dependencies and this merits further discussion
A narrative object is an information content entity that is a set of propositions.
Examples of narrative objects are reports, journal articles, and patents submission.
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agree - DENRIE. Issue(alan) do we only mean text? What about a story told by mime. Does music count? (no) what about an oral report. Regarding definition, saying it is a set of propositions means we loose the idea that wording matters. Maybe adjust saying a narrative object has some relationshop to a set of propositions
group:OBI
narrative object
person:Chris Stoeckert
information content entity
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