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ArgotOrganisation
An argot to describe organisations.
Component-ArgotOrganisation IntroductionAn organisation is described using a vCard to make the information easily available for importing into other tools, such as address books. DetailsTypeAn organisation is represented as a vCard with a v:org property. PropertiesFull nameIdentifier: v:organization-name This is the full name of the organisation. Example: Office of Gas and Electricity Markets Department nameIdentifier: v:organization-unit The name of the organisation, if it is within another organsation. Example: Geographical Information System (GIS) Unit HomepageIdentifier: v:url The homepage of the organisation. Example: http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ LocationLogoMight also be called an avatar. Identifier: v:logo An image that 'represents' this organisation. ExampleA complete example of an organisation would be: <div type="v:VCard" xmlns:v="http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#">
<span rel="v:org">
<span property="v:organization-name">Office of Gas and Electricity Markets</span>
</span>
<a rel="v:url" href="http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/">Home-page</a>
<a rel="v:logo" href="http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/SiteCollectionImages/ofgem-logo1.jpg">image</a>
</div>An example of a department within an organisation would be: <div type="v:VCard" xmlns:v="http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#">
<span rel="v:org">
<span property="v:organizational-unit">Geographical Information System (GIS) Unit</span>
<span property="v:organization-name">Department for Transport</span>
</span>
<a rel="v:url" href="http://www.dft.gov.uk/">Home-page</a>
<a rel="v:logo" href="http://www.dft.gov.uk/_format/_images/gifs/logo.gif">image</a>
</div>
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Not sure what you mean by ArgotLocation, can you please clarify?
I think at the minimum that location should include a postcode that can be extracted and used on maps and distance functions.
Perhaps location should also include latitude and longitude so the service can be consumed by applications such as Google maps
To hook into existing standards, locations could follow hCard/vCard formats, and include a structured address. Latitude and longitude would be useful but I think the content of existing adverts should determine the structure: do they include latitude and longitude? If ordinary people are going to be creating these job adverts, they're not necessarily going to find it easy to identify longitude and latitude. On the other hand, Google (and other) maps can look up a location based on a postcode or address.
It might be useful to break down foaf:Organization into subclasses that are relevant for government jobs. For example, into Departments and Non-Departmental Public Bodies and so on. (I don't know the scope for the jobs that will use this ontology.)
There's information about NDPBs at http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/public/bodies.asp including a Word document that lists NDPBs from 2007 and might be amendable to automated extraction. This is a Cabinet Office document, so Simone/David might have an even more accessible version.
For Government Departments, you might want to look at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=2899, which includes tables of (employment) statistics by department, giving a useful classification structure in Excel format (again amenable to automated extraction, I'd have thought). Might be some other useful information there too.
Having an ontology of these organisations would be useful in a wide range of domains; we had to put something like this together for Gazettes as well. It would be good to coordinate that somehow.
Organisations probably also need to be organised in a part/subpart structure. For example, an individual hospital is part of the NHS, a department within that hospital is part of the hospital and so on.