Review remarks on the Public Organization model

[JDMKSZ]

Some review remarks on the Public Organization model.

1. Organisation and organization are used interchangeably in an inconsistent way. We'd propose to use US English as standard (as BCSS does) so please use "organization" everywhere.
2. In the diagram, an agent can be a member of an organization, but organization in itself is a member, so please add the ---|> arrow in the opposite direction
3. Please revise the cardinalities in the relations a. I think a PublicOrganization can have multiple multiple suborganizations, units and members. b. According to the current model, an agent can be member of multiple organizations, but the inverse should be also true (multiple agents can be member of an organization
4. There are properties with the name “identifier” which have type Text and not Identifier. Even Identifier itself has a property “identifier”, which is very confusing. Maybe rename the entity Identifier to BusinessIdentifier?
5. PublicOrganization has the property “identifier”, but it also has inherited a property with the same name from “agent”. The “identifier” in PublicOrganization points to the entity Identifier, but the description says it is an acronym. Maybe “acronym” can be added as a property to the entity “(Business)Identifier”?
6. Since we are in the scope of Belgian PublicOrganizations, I miss the concept of a “CBENumber” (KBO-nummer/numéro BCE), it should be added somewhere to the model. Note that CBENumbers in itself are no longer unique, this concept has changed 2 years ago where now they are only unique in combination with a point in time.

[barthanssens]

Regarding 4 and 6, The CBENumber is part of the identifier class, see also the Registered Organization Vocabulary https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-regorg/ The idea is that an organisation can get an identifier (or multiple), assigned by a formal authority.

On a similar note, accronym could be a property from known another well-known vocabulary, e.g. skos:altLabel

[MarcBruyland]

(1) In the federal vocabulary standard we use the following principle: US-English or UK-English ? If there is a clear EU/international vocabulary, we use the English terminology used in this standard according to the priorities listed previously. If not, by default US-English will be preferred. By the way, we also use there Organization, PublicOrganization, RegisteredOrganization, ... with a "z".

(6) FedVoc uses cbeNumber, enterpriseNumber and establishmentUnitNumber. FedVoc raised a question to KBO/BCE about the utility of cbeNumber which is intended to be used for both entities and establishmentUnits, whereas enterpriseNumber identifies an enterprise and establishmentUnitNumber identifies an establshmentUnit. Fedvoc also defined the notion of Site (http://www.w3.org/ns/org#Site) and EstablishmentUnit which is a specialization of Site.

(link to FedVoc is https://github.com/belgif/fedvoc - download Excel file)

[AnnVanCamp]

(6) Regarding identifiers for Organizations, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium) assigns the following numbers:

• uitgeversnummer / numéro d'éditeur: In the context of legal deposit, each Belgian 'publisher' (in a broad sense) needs to register in the register of publishers held by KBR. This publishers' number is one of the components of the legal deposit number that needs to be mentioned in each publication. E.g. FPS Economy received the publisher number 2295, so their legal deposit numbers has the syntax D/YYYY/2295/NNNN, for example D/2021/2295/0002 for their publication "Het sociaal tarief voor elektriciteit en/of aardgas". However, at KBR we are questioning the sense of this KBR-publisher's number and considering to switch to another identifier which is more widely adopted, such as the CBEnumber, which would require modifying articles 5 to 8 of the "Koninklijk besluit tot uitvoering van de wet van 8 april 1965 houdende instelling van het wettelijk depot bij de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België".
• ISIL (ISO 15511:2019), International standard identifier for libraries and related organizations, see: http://isil.kbr.be/ and http://isil.arch.be/ However, ISIL is not used in Flanders on https://bibliotheek.be/bibliotheken or https://opendata.vlaanderen.be/dataset/cultuurcentra-en-bibliotheken, nor in CFWB on https://www.odwb.be/explore/dataset/les-bibliotheques-publiques-en-federation-wallonie-bruxelles/ How can we revive this international standard? The main application is for RFID-tags and the ISIL-code also serves as MARC21 Organization Code.
• ISNI (ISO 27729:2012), International standard name identifier See: https://www.kbr.be/nl/isni/ and a Belgian example: https://isni.org/isni/0000000123060303 ISNI is most widely adopted for creative persons, and until now less used for creative organizations At KBR, as new ISNI Registration Agency, we are currently in the process of setting up a workflow to request ISNI-assignments. It's important to note that ISNI is limited to organizations that are involved in creative activities (in a broad sense), so not all public organisations qualify to get an ISNI. Can these identifiers be added in the federal vocabularies and be used to describe (a part of) Belgian public organizations?