Re: representing a city org structure

Wouldn't the ProgramMembership type serve this purpose?


Em 11/04/2024 10:37, Arnaud Sahuguet escreveu:
> I am continuing my exploration about representing New York City using 
> Schema.org.
>
> I am now looking at the city org structure.
> Here is the official org chart: 
> https://www.nyc.gov/assets/home/downloads/pdf/office-of-the-mayor/misc/NYC-Organizational-Chart.pdf 
> .
> People, roles and orgs are all mixed up together, which makes things 
> really messy. But assuming we can fix that, I have a few questions.
>
> *Org hierarchy*
> For "agencies", we can use GovernmentOrganization and property 
> parentOrganization and subOrganization to represent the relationships. 
> However, it is not totally clear when to use subOrganization 
> vs department.
>
> *Org <-> People relationships*
> How would you represent the person running the agency (the head of the 
> agency)?
> We can use property employee, but it does not convey the management part.
> founder and member are not ideal either.
> Should we create a new property for this?
>
> *Org <-> Org relationships*
> How would you represent the fact that a given org 
> oversees/regulates/etc. another one?
>
> regards,
>
> -- 
> Arnaud
>
> PS: There is a saying in the NYC Civic Tech community: "New York City 
> is where new technologies come to audition".
> Schema.org needs no audition. If we can find an intuitive way of 
> representing NYC org chart, we should be able to represent any city 
> org chart :-)