Class: Organization

An organization is a collective with a complex articulation of tasks, roles and responsibilities.

URI: sio:Organization

Parents

• is_a: Collective - A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together on a specific project(s) to achieve a common objective.

Children

• AcademicOrganization - An academic organization is a lawfully recognized organization that confers diplomas, degrees and other forms of recognition of academic achievement.
• Corporation - A corporation is an organization that is granted a charter recognizing it as a separate legal entity.
• Institute - institute is a society or organization having a object or common factor, and is normally applied to those with a scientific, educational, or social objective.
• RegulatoryAuthority - A regulatory authority is an organization responsible for exercising regulatory or supervisory capacity in some area of human activity.

Referenced by Class

Attributes

Inherited from Collective:

• hasCreator _0..1
  • Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
  • Range: Entity

• hasAttribute _0..1

  • Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.

  • Range: Entity

  • satisfies _0..1

  • Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.

  • Range: Description

  • isRelatedTo _0..1
  • Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
  • Range: Entity
  • derivesInto _0..1

  • Description: a derives to b if and only if a or some part thereof is consumed in the formation of b.

  • Range: Object