LEAP organization

Belongs to LEAP 2.0 > classes

Working definition
Refers to any commercial, social or political entity of interest to the portfolio holder, beyond an individual person, which may act as an agent.

Explanation
In IMS LIP and derivatives, organizations kept on popping up through the spec as there was a need to refer to them, in the QCL and affiliation definitions in particular. See 13.14 in the information model and the LIP diagram.

This model had serious drawbacks: how would one know exactly which organization was referred to, if the name was common? How much information should one put in about the organization? How can one indicate unambiguously whether or not organizations referred to in different places in the portfolio information are the same or different?

A better way is either to use a recognised standard URL for the organization, from where the other details can be retrieved (and which will be maintained by the organization in question), or to put essential details together within the portfolio information, to be referred to whenever that organization is mentioned.

Predicates
See the notes on LEAP triples for an explanation of what forms of triples there are, and how they are represented here.
 * Particular "Inherited" predicates are given to clarify their likely meaning for this class.
 * "Direct" predicates are those where this class is in the domain of the predicate (but its superclass is not).
 * "Inverse" predicates, if given for reference, are those where the class is in the range, but not the domain, of the predicate.
 * "=" means the predicate expects a literal object: the type of literal may be specified here.
 * "&rarr;" means the predicate expects an object URL referring to an instance of the given class(es).
 * "&larr;" is used for inverse predicates, and means that triples may exist with instances of the given class(es) as subject and this class as object.

Inherited
from agent
 * knows me as = the holder's name and/or ID with the organization
 * manages &rarr; LEAP activity (not LEAP agent: that is a different relationship)
 * related &rarr; any URI identifying it; any URL giving more information about it; any LEAP pattern related to it

Direct

 * first &rarr; the most significant LEAP agent that is part of it, if there is one
 * has part &rarr; LEAP agent
 * intent = the reason for the organization's existence
 * is part of &rarr; LEAP organization
 * spatial = the geographical extent of the establishment, or the operations, of the organization

Subclasses
Different kinds of organization could be defined.

MIAP CDD

 * Awarding Organisation

Any more? Add them like this
(and if you can, add a link to more information about how information can be obtained from it, and in what format)

Issues
A note can go here of any issues that are not represented above, which can then be discussed on the list or under the discussion tab.