A report is produced as paper copies, a spreadsheet document is shown on a computer screen, a plan is carried out, a device operates according to a functional specification, a software program is executed.
Inspired by BFO's "concretizes". The constraints on 'concretizes' in IDO closely matches that employed in BFO-ISO (obo:BFO_0000059), and not the RO or the IAO (obo:RO_0000059).
There are two main, and very different, uses of 'concretizes' for an information object y. (1) The information object is made concrete in printed or electronic copies. Each copy will have patterns of ink or configurations of electrons that map to y: a quality of appropriate similarity. (2) The information object is made concrete by a performance according to the specification given by y.
