Good point!
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On 02/06/2010, at 15:06, "Stuart A. Yeates" <[email protected]> wrote:
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
