- From: Jo�o Paulo Almeida <jpalmeida@inf.ufes.br>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:25:30 -0200
- To: <public-gld-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CCD2BF0A.5F1F6%jpalmeida@inf.ufes.br>
Dear All, I have some questions about the ORG Ontology: Can Posts contain sub Organizational Units? This is currently allowed in the ontology, but does not seem to make sense to me when I think of applications and the intuitive connotation of Post. (I am still trying to make sense of what are the benefits of Post being a subclass of Organization. The fact that a Post can be held by multiple people does not seem to be enough, since Post could also be a direct subclass of foaf:Agent, in which case it could be a foaf:Group.) What is the difference between hasSubOrganization - when used between org:Organization and org:Post - and hasPost (which has ___domain Organization and range Post)? If there is no difference (and if one insists that Post is a subclass of Organization) shouldn't org:hasPost be a subproperty of org:hasSubOrganization (just like org:hasUnit is)? If an agent is a member of a sub organization (O2), which is a sub organization of an organization (O1), is the agent also a member of O1? Suppose that we're talking about a particular University, e.g., "The Federal University of Esp�rito Santo". Would we then have different Posts for each of the "Associate Professors" that are members of the university? Is organization (___domain org:Membership, range foaf:Agent) a functional property? (I think so.) Is organization (___domain org:Membership, range org:Organization) a functional property? Is role (___domain org:Membership, range org:Role) a functional property? regards, Jo�o Paulo
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