Re: Question regarding the Organization Ontology

It is important to be able to talk about a post which is vacant.

You potentially need to be able to talk about an individual, a post 
within the organisation and their membership of that post. This becomes 
very useful when you want to distinguish relationships and responsibilities.

For example; "Post 120" supervises "Post 121". However things like 
committee memberships are actually attached to your membership of the 
orgainsation... if person X is on a committee and then retires and 
person Y is appointed to her post, it does not automatically make Y a 
member of the committee, other committee memberships may be explicitly 
for people with certain posts.

Finally you have relationships to or between individuals themselves, 
however these will generally be out of the scope about what an 
organisation cares about.

One area this has mattered for me is in producing linked data from a 
conference. http://programme.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ -- I ended up inventing an 
"Affiliation" class as I needed to represent the same person speaking in 
two different sessions and with a different affiliation. One talk was 
about his work, the second about a hobby project or somesuch. It 
mattered to represent which "hat" he was wearing.


On 10/03/14 13:29, jean delahousse wrote:
> Hello,
> Why not use Membership which is richer than Post ?
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-vocab-org-20140116/#class-membership
> It is the class I proposed for EU directory.
> Jean
>
>
> 2014-03-10 14:24 GMT+01:00 Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com 
> <mailto:bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>>:
>
>     Hi Anne
>
>     What I do for that kind of situation is to make distinct classes
>     "Position" and "Post" (or Job, whatever you want to name it)
>
>     :Anne :positionHeld :Position12345
>     :Position12345  :beginDate "2012-10-01"
>     :Position12345  :endDate "2013-12-31"
>     :Position12345  :postHeld  :PostX
>     :Position12345  :employer :OrgY
>
>     :Position12345 is actually an "Event"
>     :PostX is qualifying the "Position type" or "Job", e.g.; "Chief
>     Technical Officer" "Documentalist" etc.
>
>     You can relate successive positions held by the same person using
>     something like http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/.html
>
>     My 0.02
>
>     Bernard
>
>
>
>
>     2014-03-07 17:14 GMT+01:00 Anne Ward <anne.ward@rogers.com
>     <mailto:anne.ward@rogers.com>>:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I am planning to use the organization ontology in examples of
>         defining relationships between persons and organizations. In
>         particular, I found the addition of "Post" quite applicable to
>         the examples I am trying to illustrate.
>
>         I have a question regarding its usage, when specifying that a
>         person "holds" a "Post" within an organization. As a "Post"
>         can be held by many people over time, what would be the best
>         approach for modelling the time interval in a which a given
>         person "holds" a given "Post"?
>
>         Please advise.
>
>         Thank you.
>
>         Anne Ward
>
>
>
>
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