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Organization

Represents a collection of people organized together into a community or other social, commercial or political structure. The group has some common purpose or reason for existence which goes beyond the set of people belonging to it and can act as an Agent. Organizations are often decomposable into hierarchical structures. It is recommended that SKOS lexical labels should be used to label the Organization. In particular skos:prefLabel for the primary (possibly legally recognized name), skos:altLabel for alternative names (trading names, colloquial names) and skos:notation to denote a code from a code list. Alternative names: Collective Body Org Group

Diagram

cluster_associated foaf_Agent foaf:Agent Organization Organization Organization->foaf_Agent Organization:e->foaf_Agent:e hasMember Organization->Organization hasSubOrganization Organization->Organization linkedTo Organization->Organization subOrganizationOf Organization->Organization transitiveSubOrganizationOf ChangeEvent ChangeEvent Organization->ChangeEvent changedBy Organization->ChangeEvent resultedFrom Post Post Organization->Post hasPost Site Site Organization->Site hasPrimarySite Organization->Site hasSite skos_Concept skos:Concept Organization->skos_Concept classification

Organization Diagram

Specializations of Organization

Class Description
Business Entity1
Endeavour A collaboration between two or more Organizations such as a project. It meets the criteria for being an Organization in that it has an identity and defining purpose independent of its particular members but is neither a formally recognized legal entity nor a sub-unit within some larger organization. Might typically have a shorter lifetime than the Organizations within it, but not necessarily. All members are org:Organizations rather than individuals and those Organizations can play particular roles within the venture. Alternative names: Project Venture Endeavour Consortium Endeavour
Formal Organization An Organization which is recognized in the world at large, in particular in legal jurisdictions, with associated rights and responsibilities. Examples include a Corporation, Charity, Government or Church. Note that this is a super class of gr:BusinessEntity and it is recommended to use the GoodRelations vocabulary to denote Business classifications such as DUNS or NAICS.
Organizational Unit An Organization such as a University Support Unit which is part of some larger FormalOrganization and only has full recognition within the context of that FormalOrganization, it is not a Legal Entity in its own right. Units can be large and complex containing other Units and even FormalOrganizations. Alternative names: OU Unit Department

Formalization for Organization

Property Constraint
changedBy only ChangeEvent
classification only skos:Concept
hasMember only foaf:Agent
hasPost only Post
hasPrimarySite only Site
hasSite only Site
hasSubOrganization only Organization
identifier
linkedTo only Organization
resultedFrom only ChangeEvent
subOrganizationOf only Organization
transitiveSubOrganizationOf only Organization
disjointWith Site
disjointWith Role
subClassOf foaf:Agent

  1. Specialization asserted by this ontology via alignment; the class is defined in an external ontology and is not declared as a specialization of this class there. ↩