The information artifact may written or recorded or just be stored in someone's head (specifically depenedent upon that person). In the context of a taxonomic inventory, an observing process may be called a sighting, and is an ad hoc reporting of, typically, a single taxon occurrence, usually motivated by rarity, individual interest in the taxon, or atypicality of circumstances.

obsolete observing process

A process in which a person or machine sees or detects a material entity and selects it as worthy of observation, and which has as output an information content entity about the selected material entity.

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Observing and recording the presence or absence of butterflies during a transect walk.

A trip camera capture of an image of a jaguar is an observation, because it is "selected" by the camera as worthy of obsevation simply by virtue of moving in front of the camera.

Seeing three pelicans flying overhead on Christmas day and report them as part of the Christmas Bird Count.

This class was made obsolete because of the incorrect identifier format. It has been replaced by BCO_0000003.

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