Obligation

Class
http://proethica.org/ontology/core#Obligation
Definition

A directive information entity expressing required actions or behaviors in professional contexts. Obligations prescribe conduct and, when concretized by an agent, guide compliant behavior. This is the O component of the formal specification D=(R,P,O,S,Rs,A,E,Ca,Cs).

Properties
Subclass of
IAO_0000033
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000033
Change Note
v2.3.0: Refined from IAO:information content entity to IAO:directive information entity per Donohue (ICBO 2017) analysis of deontic entities in BFO-aligned ontologies.
Relationships
disjointWith Agent, Resource
TTL
@prefix iao: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> . proeth-core:Obligation a owl:Class ; rdfs:label "Obligation"@en ; rdfs:comment "A directive information entity expressing required actions or behaviors in professional contexts. Obligations prescribe conduct and, when concretized by an agent, guide compliant behavior. This is the O component of the formal specification D=(R,P,O,S,Rs,A,E,Ca,Cs)."@en ; rdfs:subClassOf iao:0000033 ; owl:disjointWith proeth-core:Agent, proeth-core:Resource ; skos:changeNote "v2.3.0: Refined from IAO:information content entity to IAO:directive information entity per Donohue (ICBO 2017) analysis of deontic entities in BFO-aligned ontologies."@en ; skos:definition "A directive information entity expressing required actions or behaviors in professional contexts. This is the O component of the formal specification D=(R,P,O,S,Rs,A,E,Ca,Cs)."@en .
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Last Updated
2026-06-06 21:52