Re: Organization ontology

Get Kurzweil to do it!
 
Michael A. Norton
 




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From: Chris Beer <chris@e-beer.net.au>
To: Mike Norton <xsideofparadise@yahoo.com>
Cc: Stuart A. Yeates <syeates@gmail.com>; Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@googlemail.com>; Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>; "public-egov-ig@w3.org" <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Tue, June 1, 2010 10:49:57 PM
Subject: Re: Organization ontology


Cool! Let me know when that's ready. End of the week ok? ;P lol

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On 02/06/2010, at 15:47, Mike Norton <xsideofparadise@yahoo.com> wrote:


Or, in the U.S. we could just partition a new web with top level domains reflective of the agencies and departments financed by our tax dollars.  Open Gov!
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From: Chris Beer <chris@e-beer.net.au>
>To: Stuart A. Yeates
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>Cc: Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@googlemail.com>; Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>; "public-egov-ig@w3.org" <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
>Sent: Tue, June 1, 2010 10:22:12 PM
>Subject: Re: Organization ontology
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>>Good point!
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>On 02/06/2010, at 15:06, "Stuart A. Yeates" <syeates@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Dave Reynolds
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>>> We would like to announce the availability of an ontology for description of
>>> organizational structures including government organizations.
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>>> This was motivated by the needs of the data.gov.uk project. After some
>>> checking we were unable to find an existing ontology that precisely met our
>>> needs and so developed this generic core, intended to be extensible to
>>> particular domains of use.
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>>> [1] http://www.epimorphics.com/public/vocabulary/org.html
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>> I think this is great, but I'm a little worried that a number of
>> Western (and specifically Westminister) assumptions may have been
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>> What would be great would be to see a handful of different
>> organisations (or portions of them) from different traditions
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>> * The tripartite system at the top of US government, which seems
>> pretty complex to me, with former Presidents apparently retaining some
>> control after they leave office
>> * The governance model of the Vatican City and Catholic Church
>> * The Asian royalty model, in which an informal royalty commonly
>> appears to sit above a formal constitution
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>> cheers
>> stuart
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