Pattern:Organization Pattern

Description

An English description of the definition (what distinguishes this sense of the term?).

The representation of organization structure information shall conform to the ontology specified in the W3C Recommendation “The Organization Ontology”. It is included in its entirety with the prefix ‘org’. In the W3C Organization ontology, an Organization may act as an agent and is comprised of a collection of people, organized with some structure, and with some common goal. In this document, an Organization is defined as a subclass of org:Organization with extensions/specializations relevant to this document.

Key Concepts and Classes

— Organization: an Organization may act as an agent and is comprised of a collection of people, organized with some structure, and with some common goal. Properties included are: org:hasMember: identifies an agent that is a member of the Organization. org:hasSubOrganization: identifies a sub-Organization within the Organization. org:hasUnit: indicates an OrganizationUnit which is part of the Organization. org:hasPost: identifies a Post that exists in the Organization. hasAsset: identifies an asset possessed by the Organization. — OrganizationalUnit: An organization, such as a department, that is part of a larger Organization, but is recognized only in the context of the Organization. It is not regarded as a legal entity in its own right. — Post: A Post is a position within the organization that may or may not be held by some agent. It is extended in this document to be a subclass of a Role. Properties included are: org:postIn: links a Post to an Organization org:heldBy: links a Post to an Agent hasName: the name of the Post

Has Class(es)

Organization, OrganizationalUnit, Post

Status

Pending Approval

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