--- a/org/index.html Fri Feb 15 17:18:38 2013 +0000
+++ b/org/index.html Thu Feb 21 10:37:49 2013 +0000
@@ -377,10 +377,13 @@
a particular individual (Agent) and the organization and does not
exist unless there is an Agent to partake of the relationship.</p>
-<p>A <a href="#org:Post">org:Post</a> is also defined as a sub-class
- of <a href="#org:Organization">org:Organization</a> to allow for cases where a Post is
- actually held by a group of people (whether as a timeshare, as a
- team or as a formal group such as a committee). </p>
+<p>While commonly a Post would be held by a single person there are
+ situations in government organizations where a Post may itself be, or
+ be treated as, an Organization. There are no disjointness
+ constraints precluding an application of ORG from treating an entity
+ as both a <a href="#org:Post">org:Post</a> and
+ an <a href="#org:Organization">org:Organization</a> simultaneously,
+ if that is an appropriate modelling of the situation.</p>
<p>A post can have an associated <a href="#org:Role">org:Role</a>.</p>
@@ -1142,9 +1145,6 @@
</p>
<table class="definition">
<thead><tr><th>RDFS Class:</th><th><a href="http://www.w3.org/ns/org#Post">org:Post</a></th></tr></thead>
- <tbody>
- <tr><td class="prop">subClassOf:</td><td> <a href="#org:Organization">org:Organization</a></td></tr>
-</tbody>
</table>
<!-- Property holds -->
@@ -1232,8 +1232,10 @@
<table class="definition">
<thead><tr><th>RDF Property:</th><th><a href="http://www.w3.org/ns/org#reportsTo">org:reportsTo</a></th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
- <tr><td class="prop">Domain:</td><td><a href="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent">foaf:Agent</a></td></tr>
- <tr><td class="prop">Range:</td><td><a href="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent">foaf:Agent</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td class="prop">Domain:</td><td><code>owl:unionOf</code>(<a href="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent">foaf:Agent</a>
+ <a href="#org:Post">org:Post</a>) </td></tr>
+ <tr><td class="prop">Range:</td><td><code>owl:unionOf</code>(<a href="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent">foaf:Agent</a>
+ <a href="#org:Post">org:Post</a>) </td></tr>
<tr><td class="prop">Usage note:</td><td>
The precise semantics of the reporting
relationship will vary by organization but is intended to encompass both
@@ -1241,12 +1243,6 @@
setting authority) and more general reporting or accountability
relationships (e.g. so called <em>dotted line</em> reporting).
</td></tr>
- <tr><td class="prop">Usage note:</td><td>
- Since an <a href="http://www.w3.org/ns/org#reportsTo">org:Post</a>
- is also a <a href="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent">foaf:Agent</a>
- it is possible to state that some person reports to (the holder
- of) a particular post, or that (the holder of) a post reports to a person.
- </td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
@@ -1581,6 +1577,10 @@
Working Draft 23 October 2012 (Last Call)</a>:
<ul>
+ <li>Removed assertion that <a href="#org:Post">org:Post</a> is a sub
+ class of <a href="#org:Organization">org:Organization</a>, adding
+ an informative note that ORG applications are still free to declare
+ entities as being instances of both classes.</li>
<li>Removed the range constraint
on <a href="#org:siteAddress">org:siteAddress</a> to allow other
encodings than VCard to be used.</li>
@@ -1589,11 +1589,6 @@
to the foaf:Organization class. This statement was present in the
ontology itself at the time of last call but not sufficiently clear
in this document.</li>
- <li>Changed domain/range
- of <a href="#org:reportsTo">org:reportsTo</a> to be just
- foaf:Agent, removing the union
- with <a href="#org:Post">org:Post</a>. This does not change the
- semantics since <a href="#org:Post">org:Post</a> is a subclass of foaf:Agent. </li>
<li>Removed informative comment that the org:reportsTo graph is
acyclic, this is not necessarily the case.</li>
</ul>