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Allotrope Foundation Taxonomy of universals under an organizational perspective
AFT Organization Perspective (REC/2020/06)
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A person is a human that is member of a group or organization. [Allotrope]
person
A group is a an aggregate of people. [Allotrope]
group
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 and can act as an agent. [W3C ORG]
By this hierarchy organizations are built of physical people, so no pure legal persons can be members of an organization.
organization
A formal organization is an organization which is recognized in the world at large, in particular in legal jurisdictions, with associated rights and responsibilities. [W3C ORG]
formal organization
An organization such as a department or support unit which is part of some larger organization and only has full recognition within the context of that organization. In particular the unit would not be regarded as a legal entity in its own right. [W3C ORG]
organizational unit
Membership is the relational quality between a group or organization and its members. [Allotrope]
This is the structural aspect of membership. There is also a temporal aspect of being member of (membership state).
membership
A facet is a partial information that contains an aspect of some information content entity or parts of it when participating in some process. The facet abstracts of the concrete representation of this aspect of information. [Allotrope]
facet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname
last name
surname
2019-05-10 Moved under written name [Allotrope]
A family name is a name that is the portion (in some cultures) of a personal name that indicates a person's family (or tribe or community, depending on the culture). [Wikipedia]
The family name is provided (alongside given name) for use when describing parts of people's names. Although these concepts do not capture the full range of personal naming styles found world-wide, they are commonly used and have some value. [FoaF]
family name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Given_name
Christian name
first name
forename
2019-05-10 Moved under written name [Allotrope]
A given name is a name that is a part of a person's personal name. [Wikipedia]
The given name is provided (alongside family name) for use when describing parts of people's names. Although these concepts do not capture the full range of personal naming styles found world-wide, they are commonly used and have some value. [FoaF]
given name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name
full name
name
person name
2019-05-10 Moved under written name [Allotrope]
A personal name is a name that is composed of a set of names by which an individual is known. [Allotrope]
personal name
A country name is a location facet that denotes a country. [Allotrope]
country name
A facet that is about some spatial region or site. [Allotrope]
the facets of an address
location facet
A homepage hyperlink is a web page hyperlink that is a reference to home page of a person or organization. [Allotrope]
homepage hyperlink
A web page hyperlink is a URL that is a reference to web page. [Allotrope]
web page hyperlink
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. [Wikipedia]
URL
LDAP ID
ldap id
2020-03-20 Changed pref label, added alt labels. [Allotrope]
An LDAP identifier is an online account managed by an LDAP server and follows the LDAP specification. [Allotrope]
ldap identifier
An account to a local computer. [Allotrope]
local system account ID
A written name denoting a locality (e.g. city) as part a postal address. [Allotrope]
locality
The street address is a location facet of a postal address, that denotes a street. [Allotrope]
street address
telephone
A number for calling a telephone. [Allotrope]
telephone number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_(disambiguation)
A title is a prefix or suffix added to a personal name. A title can be a title of honor, that is a title bestowed as an award, a honorary title (academic), that is a recognition of contributions by a non-employee or employee, a hereditary title, that is a title that remains in a family or a job title, that is a designation of a person's position in an organization. [Wikipedia]
Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr.
title
An honorific prefix is a facet that is part of a prefix to a person's name. [Allotrope]
honorific prefix
A facet that is about communication channels. [Allotrope]
communication facet
A location name is a location facet that denotes a geographical place. [Allotrope]
location name
A postal code of a postal address. [Allotrope]
ZIP code
postal code
postal code
fax
A number for calling a fax system. [Allotrope]
fax number
Skype ID
Skype id
2020-03-20 Changed pref label, added alt labels. [Allotrope]
A Skype ID is an online account on the Skype system. [Allotrope]
Skype identifier
An honorific prefix is a facet that is part of a suffix to a person's name. [Allotrope]
honorific suffix
An account describes authority and authorization to access resources on a system. [Allotrope]
account
online account ID
online account id
2020-03-20 Changed pref label, added alt labels. [Allotrope]
An account that is accessible via remote access. [Allotrope]
online account identifier
OpenID
OpenID id
2020-03-20 Changed pref label, added alt labels. [Allotrope]
OpenID is an identifier following the OpenID specification. [Allotrope]
OpenID identifier
The gender facet relates a human to a string representing its gender. [Allotrope]
In most cases the value will be the string 'female' or 'male' (in lowercase without surrounding quotes or spaces). Like all FOAF properties, there is in general no requirement to use gender in any particular document or description. Values other than 'male' and 'female' may be used, but are not enumerated here. The gender mechanism is not intended to capture the full variety of biological, social and sexual concepts associated with the word 'gender'. [FoaF]
gender
global positioning
A facet denoting a geographic position. [Allotrope]
geolocation
A region name is a location facet that denotes a geographic region (state, province). [Allotrope]
region name
birth date
A birthday is a facet indicating the day of birth of a person. [Allotrope]
birthday
2019-05-10 Moved under written name [Allotrope]
The nick name is a written name of person that is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place, or thing - commonly used for affection. [Wikipedia]
nick name
A person facet is a facet that describes of a person's name or parts of it. [Allotrope]
person facet
Role that a organizational entity plays leader or formal head of the organization. [W3C ORG]
head
A post is some position within an organization that exists independently of the person or persons filling it. Posts may be used to represent situations where a person is a member of an organization ex officio. [W3C ORG]
the Secretary of State for Scotland is part of UK Cabinet by virtue of being Secretary of State for Scotland, not as an individual person [W3C ORG]
A post can be held by multiple people and hence can be treated as a organization in its own right. [W3C ORG]
post
site
2019-09-04 Changed pref label and definition. [Allotrope]
A site (organization) is a site where organizational entities are located such as an office or premise. [Allotrope]
site (organization)
An office or other premise at which the organization is located. Many organizations are spread across multiple sites and many sites will host multiple locations. [W3C ORG]
A textual entity that is used as directive to deliver something to a person, or organization. [IAO]
postal address
RFC 5322
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address
An email address identifies an email box to which email messages are delivered. [Wikipedia]
email address
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