--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/legal/apple.ttl Tue Oct 23 15:45:54 2012 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<http://data.companieshouse.gov.uk/id/company/04285910>
+ a rov:RegOrg ;
+ rov:legalName "Apple Binding Ltd" ;
+ rov:companyStatus <http://example.com/ref/status/NormalActivity> ;
+ rov:companyType <http://example.com/ref/type/Plc> ;
+ rov:companyActivity <http://example.com/ref/NACE/2/C/18/01/02> ;
+ rov:companyActivity <http://example.com/ref/NACE/2/C/18/01/04> ;
+ # Note the use of legalIdentifier on the next line
+ rov:registration <http://example.com/id/li04285910> ;
+ # Other identifiers are often very useful but they do
+ # not confer legal entity status.
+ rov:identifier <http://example.com/id/oc04285910> ;
+ rov:registeredAddress <http://example.com/id/ra04285910> .
+
+ # The actual registration
+<http://example.com/id/li04285910> a adms:Identifier ;
+ skos:notation "04285910"^^ex:idType ;
+ adms:schemaAgency "UK Companies House" ;
+ dcterms:created "2001-09-12"^^xsd:date .
+
+# A supplementary identifier (Open Corporates)
+<http://example.com/id/oc04285910> a adms:Identifier ;
+ skos:notation "http://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/04285910"^^ex:OCid ;
+ dcterms:created "2010-10-21T15:09:59Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
+ dcterms:modified "2012-04-26T15:16:44Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
+ dcterms:creator <http://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/07444723> .
\ No newline at end of file
--- a/legal/index.html Mon Oct 22 17:37:36 2012 +0100
+++ b/legal/index.html Tue Oct 23 15:45:54 2012 +0100
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
<p>This is a vocabulary for describing organizations that gain legal entity status
through a formal registration process, typically in a national or regional register.
This document is a companion to the namespace document at <a href="http://www.w3.org/ns/regorg">http://www.w3.org/ns/regorg</a></p>
-<p class="editorsnote">NB. For this Ed Draft, see <a href="regorg20121022.rdf">regorg20121022.rdf</a></p>
+<p class="editorsnote">NB. For this Ed Draft, see <a href="regorg20121023.rdf">regorg20121022.rdf</a></p>
</section>
<section id="sotd">
@@ -90,16 +90,83 @@
although there is significant variation between business registers in what they record and
publish. </p>
-<p>The original development of the vocabulary was carried out under the
-Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/isa/">ISA Programme</a>)
-of the European Commission (EC). Contributors included representatives of Member
-States of the European Union, operators of national repositories, standardization
-bodies and independent experts whose work was published in April 2012 [[CV1]].
-That document includes the history and motivation behind the development of a set of three interlinked
-Core Vocabularies of which this is one.</p>
-<p>This version of the Registered Organization vocabulary, RegORG, builds on that work in a broader, global context.</p>
+<section class="informative">
+<h2 id="example">Example of Use</h2>
+<p>The following is an example of a (real) company described using the Registered Organization vocabulary (in RDF/Turtle),
+which is also available as a <a href="apple.ttl">separate file</a>. This includes:</p></ul>
+<li>a description of the organization;</li>
+<li>a legal identifier (i.e. details of the registration with the authority that conferred legal status);</li>
+<li>a further identifier (Open Corporates).</li></ul>
-</section>
+<p>We assume here that example.com is publishing information about registered organizations. This might be the
+company register itself or another organization.</p>
+
+<pre id="appleBinding">
+1 <http://data.companieshouse.gov.uk/id/company/04285910>
+2 a rov:RegOrg ;
+3 rov:legalName "Apple Binding Ltd" ;
+4 rov:companyStatus <http://example.com/ref/status/NormalActivity> ;
+5 rov:companyType <http://example.com/ref/type/Plc> ;
+6 rov:companyActivity <http://example.com/ref/NACE/2/C/18/01/02> ;
+7 rov:companyActivity <http://example.com/ref/NACE/2/C/18/01/04> ;
+8 rov:registration <http://example.com/id/li04285910> ;
+9 rov:identifier <http://example.com/id/oc04285910> ;
+10 rov:registeredAddress <http://example.com/id/ra04285910> .
+
+ # The actual registration
+11 <http://example.com/id/li04285910> a adms:Identifier ;
+12 skos:notation "04285910"^^ex:idType ;
+13 adms:schemaAgency "UK Companies House" ;
+14 dcterms:created "2001-09-12"^^xsd:date .
+
+ # A supplementary identifier (Open Corporates)
+15 <http://example.com/id/oc04285910> a adms:Identifier ;
+16 skos:notation "http://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/04285910"^^ex:OCid ;
+17 dcterms:created "2010-10-21T15:09:59Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
+18 dcterms:modified "2012-04-26T15:16:44Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
+19 dcterms:creator <http://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/07444723> .
+</pre>
+
+<p>Line 3 gives the legally registered name of the company. In some jurisdictions,
+especially those where there are multiple official languages, a single company
+may have several legal names and therefore it is appropriate to use
+multiple instance of the <code><a href="#legalName">legalName</a></code> property (language tags may, of course, be added).
+However, where a company is known informally by an alternative name of some sort, or a trading name,
+in addition to its legal name, then <code>dcterms:alternative</code> should be used to provide those alternatives.</p>
+
+<p>In lines 4 and 5, URIs identify <a href="#companyStatus">company status</a> and
+<a href="#companyType">company type</a>. Different jurisdictions will
+typically define different values for company status such as trading, insolvent and
+ceased trading. Similarly there is a wide variety of company types such as Plc, SA and GmbH
+although within a given jurisdiction there will be a limited number of defined terms.
+Even where the terms used in different jurisdictions are lexically identical, they may have slightly
+different legal meanings. At the time of writing the working group has not been able to
+identify an internationally agreed set of terms for company status or company type.</p>
+
+<p>Business registers typically record the type of activity (or multiple activities) carried out.
+These are normally set out in a controlled vocabulary and again, these can vary from one jurisdiction to another.
+The UN's ISIC Codes [[ISIC4]] form a common starting point for several such vocabularies including
+the European Union's NACE [[NACE]] Codes and UK's SIC codes [[SIC07]].</p>
+
+<p>Line 9 carries the crucial <code><a href="#registration">registration</a></code> property that points to an
+Identifier class (defined in <abbr title="Asset Description Metadata Schema">ADMS</abbr> [[!ADMS]]).
+Although formally the Registered Organization vocabulary has no mandatory
+classes or properties, the defining characteristic of a registered organization is that it is formally registered.
+This is the property that captures that information and links to the formal registration which is described
+in lines 15 - 18. In this case, Apple Binding became a registered company on 12 September 2001 when
+UK Companies House issued it with the identifier 04285910. The identifier is typed in line with expected
+practice for <code>skos:notation</code> and the ORG ontology. Incidentally, UK Companies House
+publishes its information about registered companies as linked data and the example uses that URI
+as the subject of the description.</p>
+
+<p>In addition to their company registration identifier, legal entities are very likely to
+have other identifiers associated with them, such as tax numbers, VAT numbers etc. Line 12 points
+to an example of an additional identifier, one that does not confer legal status (or any other status) on
+the company but that is potentially useful as an identifier.</p>
+
+</section> <!-- Example -->
+</section> <!-- intro -->
+
<section class="informative">
<h2 id="relOrg">Relationship with the Organization Ontology</h2>
@@ -118,10 +185,10 @@
<table>
<tr><th>RegORG</th><th>relationship</th><th>ORG</th></tr>
- <tr><td><code>rov:RegOrg</code></td><td><code>rdfs:subClass</code></td><td><code>org:FormalOrganization</code></td></tr>
- <tr><td><code>rov:companyType</code></td><td><code>rdfs:subProperty</code></td><td><code>org:classification</code></td></tr>
- <tr><td><code>rov:companyStatus</code></td><td><code>rdfs:subProperty</code></td><td><code>org:classification</code></td></tr>
- <tr><td><code>rov:companyActivity</code></td><td><code>rdfs:subProperty</code></td><td><code>org:classification</code></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><code>rov:RegOrg</code></td><td><code>rdfs:subClassOf</code></td><td><code>org:FormalOrganization</code></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><code>rov:companyType</code></td><td><code>rdfs:subPropertyOf</code></td><td><code>org:classification</code></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><code>rov:companyStatus</code></td><td><code>rdfs:subPropertyOf</code></td><td><code>org:classification</code></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><code>rov:companyActivity</code></td><td><code>rdfs:subPropertyOf</code></td><td><code>org:classification</code></td></tr>
<tr><td><p>Given data such as:</p>
<pre>
<http://example.com/id/123456>
@@ -147,6 +214,7 @@
<section id="conformance">
+
<p>A data interchange, however that interchange occurs, is conformant with the Registered Organization
vocabulary if:</p><ul>
<li>it uses the terms (classes and properties)in a way consistent with their semantics as declared in this specification;</li>
@@ -184,89 +252,12 @@
</table>
</section>
-<section class="informative">
-<h2 id="example">Example of Use</h2>
-<p>The following is an example of a (real) company described using the Registered Organization vocabulary (in RDF/Turtle). This includes:</p></ul>
-<li>a description of the organization;</li>
-<li>a legal identifier (i.e. details of the registration with the authority that conferred legal status);</li>
-<li>a further identifier (Open Corporates).</li></ul>
-
-<p>We assume here that example.com is publishing information about registered organizations. This might be the
-company register itself or another organization.</p>
-
-<pre id="appleBinding">
-1 <http://data.companieshouse.gov.uk/id/company/04285910>
-2 a rov:RegOrg ;
-3 rov:legalName "Apple Binding Ltd" ;
-4 rov:companyStatus <http://example.com/ref/status/NormalActivity> ;
-5 rov:companyType <http://example.com/ref/type/Plc> ;
-6 rov:companyActivity <http://example.com/ref/NACE/2/C/18/01/02> ;
-7 rov:companyActivity <http://example.com/ref/NACE/2/C/18/01/04> ;
-8 # Note the use of legalIdentifier on the next line
-9 rov:registration <http://example.com/id/li04285910> ;
-10 # Other identifiers are often very useful but they do
-11 # not confer legal entity status.
-12 rov:identifier <http://example.com/id/oc04285910> ;
-13 rov:registeredAddress <http://example.com/id/ra04285910> .
-
-14 # The actual registration
-15 <http://example.com/id/li04285910> a adms:Identifier ;
-16 skos:notation "04285910"^^ex:idType ;
-17 adms:schemaAgency "UK Companies House" ;
-18 dcterms:created "2001-09-12"^^xsd:date .
-
-19 # A supplementary identifier (Open Corporates)
-20 <http://example.com/id/oc04285910> a adms:Identifier ;
-21 skos:notation "http://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/04285910"^^ex:OCid ;
-22 dcterms:created "2010-10-21T15:09:59Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
-23 dcterms:modified "2012-04-26T15:16:44Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
-24 dcterms:creator <http://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/07444723> .
-</pre>
-
-<p>Line 3 gives the legally registered name of the company. In some jurisdictions,
-especially those where there are multiple official languages, a single company
-may have several legal names and therefore it is appropriate to use
-multiple instance of the <code><a href="#legalName">legalName</a></code> property (language tags may, of course, be added).
-However, where a company is known informally by an alternative name of some sort, or a trading name,
-in addition to its legal name, then <code>dcterms:alternative</code> should be used to provide those alternatives.</p>
-
-<p>In lines 4 and 5, URIs identify <a href="#companyStatus">company status</a> and
-<a href="#companyType">company type</a>. Different jurisdictions will
-typically define different values for company status such as trading, insolvent and
-ceased trading. Similarly there is a wide variety of company types such as Plc, SA and GmbH
-although within a given jurisdiction there will be a limited number of defined terms.
-Even where the terms used in different jurisdictions are lexically identical, they may have slightly
-different legal meanings. At the time of writing the working group has not been able to
-identify an internationally agreed set of terms for company status or company type.</p>
-
-<p>Business registers typically record the type of activity (or multiple activities) carried out.
-These are normally set out in a controlled vocabulary and again, these can vary from one jurisdiction to another.
-The UN's ISIC Codes [[ISIC4]] form a common starting point for several such vocabularies including
-the European Union's NACE [[NACE]] Codes and UK's SIC codes [[SIC07]].</p>
-
-<p>Line 9 carries the crucial <code><a href="#registration">registration</a></code> property that points to an
-Identifier class (defined in <abbr title="Asset Description Metadata Schema">ADMS</abbr> [[ADMS]]).
-Although formally the Registered Organization vocabulary has no mandatory
-classes or properties, the defining characteristic of a registered organization is that it is formally registered.
-This is the property that captures that information and links to the formal registration which is described
-in lines 15 - 18. In this case, Apple Binding became a registered company on 12 September 2001 when
-UK Companies House issued it with the identifier 04285910. The identifier is typed in line with expected
-practice for <code>skos:notation</code> and the ORG ontology. Incidentally, UK Companies House
-publishes its information about registered companies as linked data and the example uses that URI
-as the subject of the description.</p>
-
-<p>In addition to their company registration identifier, legal entities are very likely to
-have other identifiers associated with them, such as tax numbers, VAT numbers etc. Line 12 points
-to an example of an additional identifier, one that does not confer legal status (or any other status) on
-the company but that is potentially useful as an identifier.</p>
-
-</section> <!-- Example -->
<section>
<h2 id="conceptualmodel">The Conceptual Model</h2>
<figure id="uml">
- <img src="BusinessCVdiagram.png" width="729" height="247" alt="UML Diagram of the Registered Organization vocabulary" />
+ <img src="regorg.png" width="692" height="282" alt="UML Diagram of the Registered Organization vocabulary" />
<figcaption>UML Diagram of the Registered Organization vocabulary</figcaption>
</figure>
@@ -274,28 +265,34 @@
<section><h2 id="dataTypes">Data Types</h2>
<p>The Registered Organization vocabulary makes use of the following abstract data types, all of which are
-defined in the ADMS specification [[ADMS]].</p>
+defined in the ADMS specification [[!ADMS]].</p>
<ul>
- <li>Text</li>
- <li>Code</li>
- <li>Identifier</li>
+ <li>Text (RDF encoding: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/#ch_literal"><code>rdfs:Literal</code></a> with language tag)</li>
+ <li>Code (RDF encoding: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/08/skos-reference/skos.html#Concept"><code>skos:Concept</code></a>)</li>
+ <li>Identifier (RDF encoding <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-adms/#data-types"><code>adms:Identifier</code></a>)</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section>
<h3 id="LegalEntity">The Registered Organization Class</h3>
-<p><code>rov:RegOrg</code> is the key class for the Registered Organization vocabulary and represents an organization that is
-legally registered. In many countries there is a single registry although in others, such
-as Spain and Germany, multiple registries exist. A Registered Organization is able to trade, is
-legally liable for its actions, accounts, tax affairs etc. Legal entity status is conferred by the act of registration cf.
-<code>org:FormalOrganization</code> that applies to any legal entity, including those created by other legal means. </p>
-<p>This makes registered organizations distinct from the broader concept of organizations, groups or, in some jurisdictions, sole traders.
+
+<table>
+ <thead><tr><th>Class</th><th>Notes</th><th>RDF encoding</th></tr>
+ <tbody><tr><td class="code">Registered Organization</td><td>Sub class of <code>org:FormalOrganization</code></td><td><code>rov:RegOrg</code></td></tr></tbody>
+</table>
+
+
+<p>The Registered Organization class is central to the vocabulary. It represents an organization that
+gains legal entity status by the act of registration cf. <code>org:FormalOrganization</code> that
+applies to any legal entity, including those created by other legal means. In many countries
+there is a single registry although in others, such as Spain and Germany, multiple registries exist.</p>
+<p>Registered organizations are distinct from the broader concept of organizations, groups or, in some jurisdictions, sole traders.
Many organizations exist that are not legal entities yet to the outside world they have staff, hierarchies,
locations etc. Other organizations exist that are an umbrella for several legal entities (universities
are often good examples of this). This vocabulary is concerned solely with registered organizations.</p>
<p>In RDF, Registered Organization is a sub class of the Organization Ontology's <code>org:FormalOrganization</code>
-which is itself a sub class of the more general 'Agent' class found in FOAF [[FOAF]] and Dublin Core [[DC11]] that
-<em>does</em> encompass organizations, natural persons, groups etc. &emdash; i.e. an Agent is
+which is itself a sub class of the more general 'Agent' class found in FOAF [[!FOAF]] and Dublin Core [[!DC11]] that
+<em>does</em> encompass organizations, natural persons, groups etc. — i.e. an Agent is
any entity that is able to carry out actions.</p>
</section>
<section>
@@ -388,6 +385,7 @@
</section>
<section>
<h3 id="identifier">identifier</h3>
+<p class="editorsnote"><a href="https://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/40">Issue-40</a> should this property be moved (presumably to ADMS)?</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th>Property</th><th>Abstract Data Type</th><th>RDF encoding</th></tr></thead>
<tbody><tr><td class="code">identifier</td><td>Identifier</td><td><code>rov:identifier</code></td></tr></tbody>
@@ -400,17 +398,7 @@
confer legal entity status. An individual may be issued with identifiers for everything from
social security to club membership. The identifier relationship should not be used to
link to the identifier issued by the authority that conferred legal entity status on an organization.</p>
-
-<p>There are several vobcaularies in use with a property of 'identifier.' They vary according to their domains and ranges as shown in the following table.
-
-<table>
- <tr><th>property</th><th>domain</th><th>range</th></tr>
- <tr><td><code>rov:identifier</code></td><td>undefined</td><td><code>adms:Identifier</code></td></tr>
- <tr><td><code>rov:registration</code></td><td><code>rov:RegOrg</code></td><td><code>adms:Identifier</code></td></tr>
- <tr><td><code>org:identifier</code></td><td><code>org:Organization</code></td><td>formally none, but <code>org:identifier</code> is a sub property of <code>skos:notation</code> for which best practice is to provide a datatyped literal as the value.</code></td></tr>
- <tr><td><code>dcterms:identifier</code></td><td>undefined</td><td><code>rdfs:literal</code></td></tr>
-</table>
-
+<p><code>rov:identifier</code> is one of several 'identifier' properties compared in an <a href="#app1">appendix</a>.</p>
</section>
<section>
@@ -428,9 +416,10 @@
<p>In almost all jurisdictions, legal entities must register a postal address. This
may or may not be the actual address at which the legal entity does its business,
it is commonly the address of their lawyer or accountant, but it is the address to which formal communications can be sent.</p>
-<p>In RDF terms, registeredAddress is a sub property of the more general address property that links any resource to an associated address without further semantics.</p>
+<p>The domain of <code>rov:registeredAddress</code> is <code>org:FormalOrganization</code>.</p>
</section>
+
<section>
<h3 id="legalEntity">registered organization</h3>
@@ -438,15 +427,24 @@
<thead><tr><th>Property</th><th>Abstract Data Type</th><th>RDF encoding</th></tr></thead>
<tbody><tr><td class="code">registered organization</td><td>Registered Organization</td><td><code>rov:regOrg</code></td></tr></tbody>
</table>
-<p>The registered organization relationship can be used to link any resource to a Registered Organization Class.
-This is useful, for example, where an organization includes one or more registered entities. The Dublin Core
-term <code>dcterms:isPartOf</code> is a suitable inverse of this relationship. </p>
+<p>The registered organization relationship can be used to link any <code>dcterms:Agent</code> (equivalent class <code>foaf:Agent</code>)
+to a Registered Organization that in some way acts as a registered legal entity for it. This is useful, for example,
+where an organization includes one or more legal entities, or where a natural person is also registered as a legal entity.
+<code>rov:regOrg</code> has a range of <code>rov:RegOrg</code>.</p>
</section>
</section> <!-- Conceptual Model -->
<section>
<h2 id="ack">Acknowledgements</h2>
+<p>The original development of the vocabulary was carried out under the
+Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/isa/">ISA Programme</a>)
+of the European Commission (EC). Contributors included representatives of Member
+States of the European Union, operators of national repositories, standardization
+bodies and independent experts whose work was published in April 2012 [[CV1]].
+That document includes the history and motivation behind the development of a set of three interlinked
+Core Vocabularies of which this is one.</p>
+<p>This version of the Registered Organization vocabulary, RegORG, builds on that work in a broader, global context.</p>
<p>Significant contributions to the original work on the Registered Organization vocabulary were made by:
Ignacio Boixo,
Debora Di Giacomo,
@@ -459,7 +457,21 @@
Niels Van Hee,
Thomas Verdin.</p>
<p>The working group would also like to thank the directors of <a href="http://applebinding.co.uk/">Apple Binding</a> for
-permission to describe their company in the example.</p>
+permission to describe their company in the example.</p></section>
+
+<section>
+<h2 id="app1">Appendix: identifier properties</h2>
+<p>There are several vocabularies in use with a property of 'identifier' and this vocabulary adds a new one.
+The following table provides a summary of these related but semantically different properties
+in terms of their domains and ranges</p>
+<table>
+ <tr><th>property</th><th>domain</th><th>range</th></tr>
+ <tr><td><code>rov:identifier</code></td><td><code>rdfs:Resource</code></td><td><code>adms:Identifier</code></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><code>rov:registration</code></td><td><code>rov:RegOrg</code></td><td><code>adms:Identifier</code></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><code>org:identifier</code></td><td><code>org:Organization</code></td><td>formally none, but <code>org:identifier</code> is a sub property of <code>skos:notation</code> for which best practice is to provide a datatyped literal as the value.</code></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><code>dcterms:identifier</code></td><td><code>rdfs:Resource</code></td><td><code>rdfs:Literal</code></td></tr>
+</table>
+</section>
</body></html>
Binary file legal/regorg.png has changed
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/legal/regorg20121023.rdf Tue Oct 23 15:45:54 2012 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE rdf:RDF [
+ <!ENTITY xsd "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#">
+ <!ENTITY rdf "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
+ <!ENTITY rdfs "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#">
+ <!ENTITY owl "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#">
+ <!ENTITY dcterms "http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
+ <!ENTITY dcDoc "dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/">
+ <!ENTITY foaf "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/">
+ <!ENTITY foafSpec "http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/">
+ <!ENTITY sioc "http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#">
+ <!ENTITY schema "http://schema.org/">
+ <!ENTITY cc "http://creativecommons.org/ns#">
+ <!ENTITY org "http://www.w3.org/ns/org#">
+ <!ENTITY skos "http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#">
+ <!ENTITY skosDoc "http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/">
+ <!ENTITY xhv "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#">
+ <!ENTITY wdrs "http://www.w3.org/2007/05/powder-s#">
+ <!ENTITY vann "http://purl.org/vocab/vann/">
+ <!ENTITY regorg "http://www.w3.org/ns/regorg#">
+ <!ENTITY regorgDoc "http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-regorg/">
+ <!ENTITY adms "http://www.w3.org/ns/adms#">
+ <!ENTITY admsDoc "http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-adms/">
+ <!ENTITY title "Registered Organization Vocabulary vocabulary">
+ <!ENTITY documentation "http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-regorg/">
+ <!ENTITY documentationTitle "Registered Organization Vocabulary">
+ <!ENTITY forum "http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-gld-comments/">
+ <!ENTITY forumTitle "Public GLD comments">
+]>
+
+
+<rdf:RDF xmlns:xsd = "&xsd;"
+ xmlns:rdf = "&rdf;"
+ xmlns:rdfs = "&rdfs;"
+ xmlns:owl = "&owl;"
+ xmlns:dcterms = "&dcterms;"
+ xmlns:foaf = "&foaf;"
+ xmlns:sioc = "&sioc;"
+ xmlns:schema = "&schema;"
+ xmlns:cc = "&cc;"
+ xmlns:org = "&org;"
+ xmlns:skos = "&skos;"
+ xmlns:xhv = "&xhv;"
+ xmlns:wdrs = "&wdrs;"
+ xmlns:vann = "&vann;"
+ xmlns:rov = "®org;"
+ xmlns:adms = "&adms;"
+ xmlns = "®org;"
+ xml:base = "®org;"
+ xml:lang = "en">
+
+<!-- Document metadata -->
+
+ <owl:Ontology rdf:about="®org;">
+ <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">&documentationTitle;</rdfs:label>
+ <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">This file specifies the set of RDF classes and properties used in the &title;</rdfs:comment>
+ <owl:versionInfo xml:lang="en">First version in w3.org/ns</owl:versionInfo>
+ <dcterms:modified rdf:datatype="&xsd;date">2012-10-22</dcterms:modified>
+ <xhv:last rdf:resource=""/>
+ <vann:preferredNamespaceUri>®org;</vann:preferredNamespaceUri>
+ <vann:preferredNamespacePrefix>rov</vann:preferredNamespacePrefix>
+ <dcterms:creator rdf:parseType="Resource">
+ <rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://philarcher.org/foaf.rdf#me"/>
+ <foaf:name>Phil Archer</foaf:name>
+ <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://philarcher.org/"/>
+ <schema:affiliation rdf:parseType="Resource">
+ <foaf:name>W3C/ERCIM</foaf:name>
+ </schema:affiliation>
+ </dcterms:creator>
+ <dcterms:creator rdf:parseType="Resource">
+ <rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://andrea-perego.name/foaf/#me"/>
+ <foaf:name>Andrea Perego</foaf:name>
+ <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://andrea-perego.name/"/>
+ <schema:affiliation rdf:parseType="Resource">
+ <foaf:name>European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)</foaf:name>
+ </schema:affiliation>
+ </dcterms:creator>
+ <foaf:maker rdf:parseType="Resource">
+ <foaf:name>Government Linked Data WG</foaf:name>
+ <foaf:page rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/"/>
+ </foaf:maker>
+ <dcterms:abstract>This is a vocabulary for describing organizations that gain legal entity status through a formal registration process, typically in a national or regional register. This document is a companion to the namespace document at http://www.w3.org/ns/regorg</dcterms:abstract>
+ <dcterms:description>This is the RDF encoding of the Legal Entity vocabulary, originally developed under the European Commission's ISA Programme.</dcterms:description>
+ <foaf:depiction>
+ <rdf:Description rdf:about="BusinessCVdiagram.png">
+ <rdfs:label>Registered Organization vocabulary UML Class Diagram</rdfs:label>
+ </rdf:Description>
+ </foaf:depiction>
+ <wdrs:describedby>
+ <rdf:Description rdf:about="&documentation;">
+ <dcterms:title>&documentationTitle;</dcterms:title>
+ </rdf:Description>
+ </wdrs:describedby>
+ <dcterms:relation>
+ <sioc:Forum rdf:about="&forum;">
+ <dcterms:title>&forumTitle;</dcterms:title>
+ </sioc:Forum>
+ </dcterms:relation>
+ <dcterms:rights>Copyright © 2012 European Commission.</dcterms:rights>
+ <dcterms:license>
+ <rdf:Description rdf:about="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/category/licence/isa-open-metadata-licence-v11">
+ <dcterms:title>ISA Open Metadata Licence v1.1</dcterms:title>
+ <cc:attributionName>European Commission</cc:attributionName>
+ <cc:attributionURL rdf:resource="http://ec.europa.eu/"/>
+ </rdf:Description>
+ </dcterms:license>
+ <cc:attributionName>European Commission</cc:attributionName>
+ <cc:attributionURL rdf:resource="http://ec.europa.eu/"/>
+ </owl:Ontology>
+
+<!-- This vocabulary just one class of its own-->
+
+ <rdfs:Class rdf:about="®org;RegOrg">
+ <rdf:type rdf:resource="&owl;Class" />
+ <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">Registered Organization</rdfs:label>
+ <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en" rdf:parseType="Literal"><p>rov:RegOrg is the key class for the Registered Organization vocabulary and represents an organization that is legally registered. In many countries there is a single registry although in others, such as Spain and Germany, multiple registries exist. A Registered Organization is able to trade, is legally liable for its actions, accounts, tax affairs etc. Legal entity status is conferred by the act of registration cf. org:FormalOrganization that applies to any legal entity, including those created by other legal means.</p>
+ <p>This makes registered organizations distinct from the broader concept of organizations, groups or, in some jurisdictions, sole traders. Many organizations exist that are not legal entities yet to the outside world they have staff, hierarchies, locations etc. Other organizations exist that are an umbrella for several legal entities (universities are often good examples of this). This vocabulary is concerned solely with registered organizations.</p>
+ <p>In RDF, Registered Organization is a sub class of the Organization Ontology's org:FormalOrganization which is itself a sub class of the more general 'Agent' class found in FOAF [FOAF] and Dublin Core [DC11] that does encompass organizations, natural persons, groups etc. - i.e. an Agent is any entity that is able to carry out actions.</p></rdfs:comment>
+ <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="®orgDoc;"/>
+ <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="&org;FormalOrganization" />
+ <dcterms:identifier>rov:RegOrg</dcterms:identifier>
+ </rdfs:Class>
+
+<!-- RegOrg properties -->
+
+ <rdf:Property rdf:about="®org;legalName">
+ <rdf:type rdf:resource="&owl;DatatypeProperty" />
+ <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">legal name</rdfs:label>
+ <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">The legal name of the business. A business might have more than one
+ legal name, particularly in countries with more than one official language. In such cases the
+ language of the string should be identified.</rdfs:comment>
+ <rdfs:range rdf:resource="&rdfs;Literal" />
+ <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="®orgDoc;"/>
+ <dcterms:identifier>rov:legalName</dcterms:identifier>
+ </rdf:Property>
+
+ <rdf:Description rdf:about="&dcterms;alternative">
+ <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">alternative name</rdfs:label>
+ <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">The dcterms:alternative property fully represents the
+ Legal Entity vocabulary property of alternative name. Some jurisdictions recognize concepts such as
+ a trading name or alternative forms of a legal entity's name. The alternative name property can be
+ used to record such names but should not be used to record translations of the primary legal name.
+ Where more than one legal name exists and where they have equal standing but are expressed in
+ different languages, identify the language used in each of the multiple legal names.</rdfs:comment>
+ <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="&skosDoc;" />
+ <dcterms:identifier>dcterms:alternative</dcterms:identifier>
+ </rdf:Description>
+
+ <rdf:Property rdf:about="®org;companyType">
+ <rdf:type rdf:resource="&owl;ObjectProperty" />
+ <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">company type</rdfs:label>
+ <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">This property records the type of company. Familiar types are SA, PLC, LLC, GmbH etc. Each
+ jurisdiction will have a limited set of recognized company types and these should be used in a consistent manner
+ using a SKOS Concept Scheme. rov:companyType is a sub class of org:classification which has a range of skos:Concept.</rdfs:comment>
+ <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="®orgDoc;"/>
+ <rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="&org;classification" />
+ <dcterms:identifier>rov:companyType</dcterms:identifier>
+ </rdf:Property>
+
+ <rdf:Property rdf:about="®org;companyStatus">
+ <rdf:type rdf:resource="&owl;ObjectProperty" />
+ <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">company status</rdfs:label>
+ <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Terms like insolvent, bankrupt and in receivership are likely to have
+ different legal implications in different jurisdictions. Best Practice for recording various
+ other status levels is to use the relevant jurisdiction's terms and to do so in a
+ consistent manner using a SKOS Concept Scheme. rov:companyStatus is a sub class of org:classification
+ which has a range of skos:Concept.</rdfs:comment>
+ <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="®orgDoc;"/>
+ <rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="&org;classification" />
+ <dcterms:identifier>rov:companyStatus</dcterms:identifier>
+ </rdf:Property>
+
+ <rdf:Property rdf:about="®org;companyActivity">
+ <rdf:type rdf:resource="&owl;ObjectProperty" />
+ <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">company activity</rdfs:label>
+ <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">The activity of a company should be
+ recorded using a controlled vocabulary expressed as a SKOS concept scheme. Several such
+ vocabularies exist, many of which map to the UN's ISIC codes. Where a particular controlled vocabulary is in use
+ within a given context, such as SIC codes in the UK, it is acceptable to use these, however, the preferred
+ choice for European interoperability is NACE. rov:companyActivity is a sub class of org:classification which has a range of skos:Concept.</rdfs:comment>
+ <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="®orgDoc;"/>
+ <rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="&org;classification" />
+ <dcterms:identifier>rov:companyActivity</dcterms:identifier>
+ </rdf:Property>
+
+ <rdf:Property rdf:about="®org;registration">
+ <rdf:type rdf:resource="&owl;ObjectProperty" />
+ <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">registration</rdfs:label>
+ <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">The registration is a fundamental relationship between a legal entity and the
+ authority with which it is registered and that confers legal status upon it. rov:registration is
+ a sub property of rov:identifier which has a range of adms:Identifier. rov:registration has a domain of rov:RegOrg</rdfs:comment>
+ <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="®org;" />
+ <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="®org;LegalEntity" />
+ <rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="®org;identifier" />
+ <dcterms:identifier>rov:registration</dcterms:identifier>
+ </rdf:Property>
+
+ <rdf:Property rdf:about="®org;identifier">
+ <rdf:type rdf:resource="&owl;ObjectProperty" />
+ <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">identifer</rdfs:label>
+ <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">The identifier relation links a resource to any formally issued identifier for that
+ resource other than one that confers legal status upon it. The range is adms:Identifier.</rdfs:comment>
+ <rdfs:range rdf:resource="&adms;Identifier" />
+ <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="&admsDoc;"/>
+ <dcterms:identifier>rov:identifier</dcterms:identifier>
+ </rdf:Property>
+
+ <rdf:Property rdf:about="®org;registeredAddress">
+ <rdf:type rdf:resource="&owl;ObjectProperty" />
+ <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">registered address</rdfs:label>
+ <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Links a Legal Entity to its registered address.
+ This may or may not be the actual address at which the legal entity does its business, it is commonly
+ the address of their lawyer or accountant, but it is the address to which formal communications can
+ be sent. rov:registeredAddress has a domain of rov:LegalEntity.</rdfs:comment>
+ <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="®orgDoc;"/>
+ <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="&org;FormalOrganization" />
+ <dcterms:identifier>rov:registeredAddress</dcterms:identifier>
+ </rdf:Property>
+
+ <rdf:Property rdf:about="®org;regOrg">
+ <rdf:type rdf:resource="&owl;ObjectProperty" />
+ <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">registered organization</rdfs:label>
+ <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">The registered organization relationship can be used to link any dcterms:Agent (equivalent class foaf:Agent)
+ to a Registered Organization that in some way acts as a registered legal entity for it. This is useful, for example,
+ where an organization includes one or more legal entities, or where a natural person is also registered as a legal entity.
+ rov:regOrg has a range of rov:RegOrg.</rdfs:comment>
+ <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="®orgDoc;"/>
+ <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="&dcterms;Agent" />
+ <rdfs:range rdf:resource="®org;RegOrg" />
+ <dcterms:identifier>rov:regOrg</dcterms:identifier>
+ </rdf:Property>
+
+
+</rdf:RDF>
--- a/legal/respec-config.js Mon Oct 22 17:37:36 2012 +0100
+++ b/legal/respec-config.js Tue Oct 23 15:45:54 2012 +0100
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
var respecConfig = {
// specification status (e.g. WD, LCWD, NOTE, etc.). If in doubt use ED.
specStatus: "ED",
- publishDate: "2012-10-22",
+ publishDate: "2012-10-23",
//copyrightStart: "2010",
// the specification's short name, as in http://www.w3.org/TR/short-name/
--- a/legal/respec-ref.js Mon Oct 22 17:37:36 2012 +0100
+++ b/legal/respec-ref.js Tue Oct 23 15:45:54 2012 +0100
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
berjon.biblio["EIF2"] = "<cite><a href=\"http://ec.europa.eu/isa/documents/isa_annex_ii_eif_en.pdf\">European Interoperability Framework (EIF) for European public services</a></cite> (PDF) European Commission. URL: http://ec.europa.eu/isa/documents/isa_annex_ii_eif_en.pdf."
berjon.biblio["TOGD"] = "<cite><a href=\"http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/towards_open_government_metadata_0.pdf\">Towards Open Government Metadata</a></cite> (PDF) European Commission Joinup e-Library. URL: http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/towards_open_government_metadata_0.pdf"
berjon.biblio["ADMS1"] = "<cite><a href=\"http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms/release/100\">ADMS 1.0</a></cite> European Commission ADMS (link is to a page offering various downloadable files in a variety of formats). URL: http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms/release/100"
- berjon.biblio["ADMS"] = "<cite><a href=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-adms/\">Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS)</a></cite> P. Archer, W3C Recommendations Track Working Draft. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-adms/"
+ berjon.biblio["ADMS"] = "<cite><a href=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-adms/\">Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS)</a></cite> P. Archer, G Shukair, W3C Recommendations Track Working Draft. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-adms/"
berjon.biblio["ORG"] = "<cite><a href=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/\">An organization ontology</a></cite>, D. Reynolds, W3C Recommendations Track Working Draft URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/"
berjon.biblio["EDSU"] = "<cite><a href=\"http://mediatypes.appspot.com/\">Media Types Application</a></cite> Ed Summers' work on providing URIs for media types URL: http://mediatypes.appspot.com/"
berjon.biblio["FRBR"] = "<cite><a href=\"http://archive.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr_current_toc.htm\">Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records</a></cite> OFLA 1998 URL: http://archive.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr_current_toc.htm"