Determine if Additional Concepts Should be Included with ceterms:OrganizationType

[jeannekitchens]

This potential to add: quasi government and/or state compact as concepts to ceterms:OrganizationType originated from NEBHE www.nebhe.org/about-nebhe/overview/. According to their website, NEBHE was approved by New England's six state legislatures and authorized by the U.S. Congress.

Jeanne asked Emilie to do some research and provide a proposal with potential definitions to this issue to potentially include additional concepts with http://credreg.net/ctdl/terms#OrganizationType

Proposed concepts include: quasi government and/or state compact.

[stuartasutton]

I think, "state compact" is very US-centric. Some variation on "collaborative"--"produced or conducted by two or more parties working together". Or even "quasi-governmental collaborative". etc.

[lfaulkner0328]

From staff discussion today - "Intermediary" may be a good term to consider that would encompass a range of different partners (quasi-gov or nonprofit workforce organizations, sector partnerships that do not identify as associations, regional collaboratives, national organizations with multi-site/multi-state sites). I would need to do some more research on whether intermediary is used outside of the U.S.

Examples of how term is used by government/policymakers, think tanks, workforce thought leaders etc: https://blog.dol.gov/2016/09/21/new-intermediaries-will-help-scale-us-apprenticeships https://wfguide.urban.org/strategy/workforce-intermediaries http://www.jff.org/sites/default/files/publications/FunderCollab.pdf

[stuartasutton]

I think "collaborative" comes closes to describing NEBHE and could be refined to "governmental collaborative". In fact, NEBHE even use the term collaborative.

Collaborative: "Organized group of public and/or private sector entities who collaborate towards a common set of goals."

Governmental Collaborative: "Organized group of inter-government entities who collaborate towards a common set of goals."

Intermediary alone is too broad. While "workforce intermediary" would also be a useful addition, it doesn't signal the collective nature of "collaborative" or "collective" or "partnership".

Workforce Intermediary: "Any organization functioning as a broker between employers and job seekers including industry, sector or workforce partnerships."

[jeannekitchens]

@siuc-nate @stuartasutton can we show a final proposal? Didn't this come from Scott and Emilie? We need to show a final proposal and have them approve it.

[stuartasutton]

Proposed additional concepts to the OrganizationType concept scheme:

Preferred Label: Collaborative Description: "Organized group of entities in the public, private, government sectors that collaborates to achieve a common set of goals."

Preferred Label: Workforce Intermediary Description: "An organization functioning as a broker between employers and job seekers including industry, sector or workforce partnerships."

[erafal10]

Those Organization Type's seem fine but still don't quite fit NEBHE's use case. They proposed "Coordinating Body" defined as "An organization that organizes multiple stakeholders around a common goal." It's similar to collaborative, but not a group of entities.

[siuc-nate]

Proposed additions:

URI: orgType:Collaborative Preferred Label: Collaborative Description: "Organized group of entities in the public, private, government sectors that collaborates to achieve a common set of goals."

URI: orgType:CoordinatingBody Preferred Label: Coordinating Body Description: "An organization that organizes multiple stakeholders around a common goal."

[stuartasutton]

Consider also:

URI: orgType:Consortium Preferred Label: Consortium Description: "A membership Organization of two or more individuals or organizations of any type, who collaborate with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal."

[siuc-nate]

Collaborative and Coordinating Body have been implemented in the schema management system and noted in the history tracking.

This can be closed unless we're also going to implement Consortium.

[stuartasutton]

Go ahead now...we can look at "Consortium" later.

[siuc-nate]

Thanks.