Indeed. But isn't the case that for every single website, there is a single LegalEntity to attach it to, use cases otherwise paired downward on the spectrum--or attributed to--after that? Michael A. Norton
________________________________ From: Patrick Logan <[email protected]> To: Mike Norton <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]; Dave Reynolds <[email protected]>; William Waites <[email protected]>; Linked Data community <[email protected]>; William Waites <[email protected]>; Emmanouil Batsis (Manos) <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, June 7, 2010 4:50:03 PM Subject: Re: Organization ontology Large corporations often have multiple legal entities and many informal, somewhat overlapping business organizations. Just saying. I wrangled with that. There're several different use cases for these for internal vs external, customer/vendor, financial vs operations, etc. On Jun 7, 2010 3:19 PM, "Mike Norton" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I can see Manos' point. It seems that LegalEntity rather the Organization >would work well under a sub-domain such as .LAW or .DOJ or .SEC, but under >other sub-domains such as .NASA, the Organization element might be better >served as ProjectName. All instances would help specify the Organization >type, while keeping Organization as the general unstylized element is probably >ideal, as inferred by William Waites. >> >Michael A. Norton > > > > > > ________________________________ >>From: Emmanouil Batsis (Manos) [email protected] > >>> >>>a) the way i get FormalOrganization, it could as well be called LegalEntity >>>to be more precise.... >
