- From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:17:55 +0100
- To: Chris Beer <chris@codex.net.au>
- CC: Kotis Kostas <kotis@aegean.gr>, phila@w3.org, public-gld-comments@w3.org
It sounds to me a little buggy. The rov: namespace is about "registered organizations" but switches to assume these are companies, which they may not be... eg. charities etc. That said, rov:companyType is a sub-propety of org:classification, so why not use that term instead which is acceptable for any organization, company or otherwise? On 17/04/13 09:32, Chris Beer wrote: > Hi Kotis > > Saw this -> randomly jumping in. > > My first instinct (noting the similarities in our organisations in terms of names ;) ) would be to see your example as an ORG unit/entity which has the function of Regional Administration. > > If the RAB's in Greece conduct a commercial activity (as opposed to say simply setting policy priorities and administrating grant funding as a public sector function) then certainly here they would fit the description of a rov:companyType ( we call them a Government Business Enterprise or GBE - and we would link back to ORG to a Department of State and associated Cabinet Minister through a PROV change event such as our Financial Management Act which governs how the public sector can engage with the public commercially). > > I guess what I am suggesting is to look to already defined PROV and ORG entities etc, to see if a logical combination presents itself which would alleviate the creation of a bespoke concept? > > 2 cents worth - feel free to disregard or vehemently argue all. :) > > Cheers > > Chris > > ----------------------- > > Chris Beer > Manager - Online Services > Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport > > All views my own unless otherwise stated > > > Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad > > Kotis Kostas <kotis@aegean.gr> wrote: > >> Dear Phil, >> >> I am working on an ontology for 'IT helpdesk support ticketing' for public sector organizations (eGov) and I am using ORG and RegOrg vocabularies for some upper level descriptions of example data. I think that rov:companyType property is not suitable for public organizations, or is it? Introducing for instance a concept "Regional Administration Body' in order to classify an instance such as the public organization 'North Aegean Regional Administration' body of Greece, could be possbile? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Konstantinos Kotis, PhD >> Post Doctoral Research Scientist >> Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus. >> Head of IT Department >> Samos Regional Unit, North Aegean Region Admin. Authority. >> >> Greece >> +30 6974822712 >> http://gr.linkedin.com/in/kotis -- Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg University of Southampton Open Data Service: http://data.southampton.ac.uk/ You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/ Would you recommend the software you use to another institution? http://uni-software.ideascale.com/
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