Get Kurzweil to do it! Michael A. Norton
________________________________ From: Chris Beer <[email protected]> To: Mike Norton <[email protected]> Cc: Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]>; Dave Reynolds <[email protected]>; Linked Data community <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, June 1, 2010 10:49:57 PM Subject: Re: Organization ontology Cool! Let me know when that's ready. End of the week ok? ;P lol Sent from my iPhone On 02/06/2010, at 15:47, Mike Norton <[email protected]> wrote: Or, in the U.S. we could just partition a new web with top level domains reflective of the agencies and departments financed by our tax dollars. Open Gov! > >Michael A. Norton > > > > > > ________________________________ From: Chris Beer <[email protected]> >To: Stuart A. Yeates > <[email protected]> >Cc: Dave Reynolds <[email protected]>; Linked Data community ><[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Tue, June 1, 2010 10:22:12 PM >Subject: Re: Organization ontology > >>Good point! > >Sent from my iPhone > >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 >> > > >
