leveldescribes
Leveldescribes is a term used in information science and knowledge representation to denote the act or relation of describing an entity at a specific level of abstraction or detail. It can function as a verb (to leveldescribes) or as a label for a descriptive relation within a data model. In many schemas, leveldescribes is modeled as a ternary relation leveldescribes(item, level, description), where level is an ordinal or categorical descriptor such as high, medium, or low, or a numeric depth.
In practical terms, leveldescribes supports multi-level documentation and progressive disclosure. By tagging descriptions with a level,
Applications of leveldescribes include organizing metadata for complex objects, enabling dynamic rendering of content based on
See also: abstraction, metadata, multi-level modeling, documentation frameworks, and ontologies. While leveldescribes is not yet a