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Improve the definition of the cfOrgUnit entity #5

Open jdvorak001 opened 6 years ago

jdvorak001 commented 6 years ago

We start from:

An organization (or organisation - see spelling differences) is a social group which distributes tasks for a collective goal. The word itself is derived from the Greek word organon, itself derived from the better-known word ergon - as we know `organ` - and it means a compartment for a particular job.

Definition Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization

jdvorak001 commented 6 years ago

An attempt to better reflect the https://github.com/EuroCRIS/CERIF-DataModel/wiki/Guidelines-for-definitions-of-entities-in-the-CERIF-model:

Organisation Unit: an organisation, a unit therein, a committee or other group of people that has a collective goal.

In the research information domain Organisation Units typically represents: (1) organisations that perform research (universities, research institutes, corporations) and their subdivisions (faculties, schools, departments) and other associated bodies (boards, advisory bodies); (2) organisations that fund research (funders, their divisions and evaluation panels); (3) scientific associations and networks; (4) publishers, facility operators and other service providers in the research space; (5) authorities, such as patent offices and standardization or supervision bodies; and (6) other bodies: editorial boards, evaluation panels, or committees of all kinds.

abollini commented 6 years ago

In the definition we could specify that the organisation doesn't need to be formalized in a legal entity I will like to put research groups in the list of example but I'm not sure in which of the 6 categories it should be included

jdvorak001 commented 6 years ago

Outcome of the TG virtual meeting discussion today:

Organisation Unit: an organisation, a unit therein, a committee or any other group of people that has a collective goal. Organisation Units are not necessarily formalized as legal entities.

In the research information domain Organisation Units typically represents: (1) organisations that perform research (universities, research institutes, corporations) and their subdivisions (faculties, schools, departments, research groups) and other associated bodies (boards, advisory bodies); (2) organisations that fund research (funders, their divisions and evaluation panels); (3) scientific associations and networks; (4) publishers, facility operators and other service providers in the research space; (5) authorities, such as patent offices and standardization or supervision bodies; and (6) other bodies: editorial boards, evaluation panels, or committees of all kinds.