Organization

Pattern

This class has been associated with the following pattern:

Pattern:Organization Pattern

Subclass Of

Agent

Description

An English description of the definition (what distinguishes this sense of the term?).

An Organization represents a collection of people organized together into a community or other social, commercial or political structure. The group has some common purpose or reason for existence which goes beyond the set of people belonging to it. An organization may itself be able to act as an agent.

Class Diagram Description

Figure 1 depicts the main classes and properties in the W3C Organization Ontology.

Required by Use Case(s)

(why is this specialized definition needed?)

CDM References

What other classes or properties reference this term?

• OrganizationalUnit ‎ (← links)
• Post ‎ (← links)
• Firm ‎ (← links)
• OrganizationAgent ‎ (← links)
• Employee ‎ (← links)
• Stakeholder ‎ (← links)
• Pattern:Organization Pattern ‎ (← links)

Interface Specification References

This class has been associated with the following interface specification items:

Sources

Sources considered when developing the class:

Status

Pending Approval

Annotations

Annotation	Value

Manchester Syntax Specification

Property	Restriction	Value
HasName	exactly 1	xsd:string
Org:hasMember	only	Agent
Org:hasSubOrganization	only	Organization
Org:subOrganizationOf	only	Organization
Org:hasPost	only	Post
HasAsset	only	Asset
Org:hasUnit	only	OrganizationUnit

Supplementary Figures

Figure	Caption
	Figure 1: The Organization Ontology main classes and properties from