Concepts Attributes – Create Concept Instances

A concept instance is a piece of data that can be categorised into a concept.  For example, if a concept was “Country”, “France” and “Germany” would be examples of concept instances belong to the concept “country“.

Dependent on concept type and the rules of a map, concept instances can be created by a knowledge author or created at run-time by end-users.

• For string concepts, a knowledge author can define their own instances or have end users input them
• For number concepts, instances can be any numerical value 
• For date concepts, instances can be any valid date
• For boolean (True/False) concepts, instances will be true or false

When opening a string concept, Rainbird will display the existing instances for that concept. Concept instances can also be provided for a map by injecting data from an external data source. 

Figure 1: Creating instances in a string concept