On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Dave Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > [1] http://www.epimorphics.com/public/vocabulary/org.html
I think this is great, but I'm a little worried that a number of Western (and specifically Westminister) assumptions may have been built into it. What would be great would be to see a handful of different organisations (or portions of them) from different traditions modelled. Maybe: * The tripartite system at the top of US government, which seems pretty complex to me, with former Presidents apparently retaining some control after they leave office * The governance model of the Vatican City and Catholic Church * The Asian royalty model, in which an informal royalty commonly appears to sit above a formal constitution cheers stuart
