Re: W3C Government Linked Data Working Group - Organizational Ontologies

Jerry,

Thank you for your comment.

While the ORG ontology being developed by the GLD working group can 
serve as a basis for modelling such things, it is not itself intended to 
describe particular organizational structures such as the US government 
structure.

It is a generic onotology for organizations which can be used to create 
specialist vocabularies and instance data to describe particular 
organizations and organizational structures.

As an example of how this can be done you may wish to look at the 
"Central Government" Ontology for the UK [1]. This builds upon ORG and 
provides terms for the structure of the UK Government including various 
notions of committee, the Civil Service and so on. This is then used to 
publish information on each UK central government organization (and 
various "arms length bodies") as so called "organograms" [2].

Dave

[1] http://reference.data.gov.uk/def/central-government/
[2] http://data.gov.uk/organogram

On 21/03/13 19:05, Jerry Hall, eCitizens.org wrote:
> Hi there. I'll unabashedly reveal my noob status on the topic of
> organizational ontologies. That being said, and in response to mapping
> out such organization ontologies, especially municipalities here's a few
> considerations:
>
>   * Various branches of government i.e. 'executive', 'legislative',
>     'judicial' etc? We're looking at naming conventions for
>     local-government positions and have been considering this format:
>     http://api.votesmart.org/docs/semi-static.html<http://api.votesmart.org/docs/semi-static.html>
>
>   * Various 'committees', 'boards' and 'commissions' where elected
>     officials serve. These are typically not ad hoc but, deeply embedded
>     in a municipal organizations fabric.
>
>   * The municipal entities legal-structure i.e. if a local government is
>     mandated under a 'Charter' or 'General Law'?
>   * The municipal system of government such as 'Mayor-Commission' or
>     'Council-Manager'
>
>   * The legal relationship of the organization to a parent such as
>     'annex', 'township', ('subsidiary' for corporations) etc.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jerry
>
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