- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 16:59:31 +0200
- To: Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- Cc: public-vocabs@w3.org, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
On 6 July 2013 16:43, Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote: > On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 17:14:45 +0400, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote: > >> I agree that NGO \= non-profit, but non-profit also \= charitable >> organization. > > > Right. Where do we fit an organisation like the W3C, which *technically* > isn't a formal organisation at all, but an agreement among various players? > > Also, we seem to be heavily focused on political players. While we have > sporting clubs (some of which are non-profit, some of which are definitely > for profit) we don't seem to have a more general category for "recreational > groups" - some of which are officially registered, and some of which are > not. > > The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit - but they produce products, have > C*Os and multi-million-dollar marketing departments and customers who are > not really part of the organisation in any meaningful sense. But the > Dachshund club of Finland isn't a sporting organisation, isn't primarily > "charitable" (without suggesting that its members are not kind and > charitable people), isn't a religion... > > What is Couchsurfing.org? > > I'm sorry, I don't yet have suggestions for answers. But it seems to me that > the answers we have already codified in schema.org only work for a handful > of the questions we should be asking. All of which suggests to me, that the sooner we can hand off the detailed sub-categorization to Wikipedia (via Wikidata?) the better... Dan > cheers > > Chaals > > >> Depending on the country, NGO's and non-profits are divided differently. >> This Wikipedia article gives an idea of the enormity of this category: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization >> >> (I had no idea that BINGO, TANGO, BONGO and DONGO, etc., existed!) >> >> One could create a few high level divisions and use productOntology for >> details if needed, although many types here do not (yet) have Wikipedia >> pages of their own. >> >> kc >> >> On 7/6/13 4:12 AM, Web Schemas TF Issue Tracker wrote: >>> >>> webschema-ISSUE-23 (danbri): No Organization subtype for Non-Profit >>> >>> http://www.w3.org/2011/webschema/track/issues/23 >>> >>> Raised by: Dan Brickley >>> On product: >>> >>> Julie Setbon asks, "Under http://schema.org/Organization what would a >>> non-profit group fall under ? An NGO is a non-governmental organization >>> which to me is not the same as an independent 503 tax exempt or other >>> non-profit grass roots movement." >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Charles McCathie Nevile - Consultant (web standards) CTO Office, Yandex > chaals@yandex-team.ru Find more at http://yandex.com >
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