- From: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:26:19 +0100
- To: Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@googlemail.com>
- CC: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>, "public-egov-ig@w3.org" <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
Dave, > We would like to announce the availability of an ontology for > description of organizational structures including government organizations. Brilliant! I submitted it now to Sindice [1] and 'registered' the org prefix in prefix.cc [2] - you might want to support it by voting it up ;) Cheers, Michael [1] http://sindice.com/search?q=domain%3Awww.w3.org+Core+organization+ontology&q t=term [2] http://prefix.cc/org -- Dr. Michael Hausenblas LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland, Europe Tel. +353 91 495730 http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ http://sw-app.org/about.html > From: Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@googlemail.com> > Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:50:32 +0100 > To: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>, "public-egov-ig@w3.org" > <public-egov-ig@w3.org> > Subject: Organization ontology > Resent-From: "public-egov-ig@w3.org" <public-egov-ig@w3.org> > Resent-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:51:09 +0000 > > We would like to announce the availability of an ontology for > description of organizational structures including government organizations. > > 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. > > The ontology is documented at [1] and some discussion on the > requirements and design process are at [2]. > > W3C have been kind enough to offer to host the ontology within the W3C > namespace [3]. This does not imply that W3C endorses the ontology, nor > that it is part of any standards process at this stage. They are simply > providing a stable place for posterity. > > Any changes to the ontology involving removal of, or modification to, > existing terms (but not necessarily addition of new terms) will be > announced to these lists. We suggest that any discussion take place on > the public-lod list to avoid further cross-posting. > > Dave, Jeni, John > > [1] http://www.epimorphics.com/public/vocabulary/org.html > [2] > http://www.epimorphics.com/web/category/category/developers/organization-ontol > ogy > [3] http://www.w3.org/ns/org# (available in RDF/XML, N3, Turtle via > conneg or append .rdf/.n3/.ttl) >
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