Simple glossary proposal (without cardinalities)

[anarosa-es]

• Public Service: service offered by a Public Organization.
• Administrative procedure: type of public service where the resolution of the competent authority is subject to appeal.
• Administrative act: action required by and administrative procedure or public service for its processing. These actions can be grouped according to the administrative proceeding phase: initiation, proceeding or finalization.
• Power: the capacity of performing some administrative act in some public service
• Representation power (RPower): the capacity of performing some administrative act in some public service in behalf of other legal or natural person. This can be limited by some constraints, either for administrative acts or public services. Usually, constraints on public servcies refer to certain public bodies. Constraints on administrative acts depend on the nature of the act, e.g. economic limitation for acts of financial nature.

  «RPOWER» = perform «ADMINISTRATIVE ACT» («AACONSTRAINT») for «PUBLIC SERVICE» («PSCONSTRAINT»)

• General power: the capacity of performing any administrative act in any context without limitations.

  «RPOWER» = perform ANY «ADMINISTRATIVE ACT» for ANY «PUBLIC SERVICE»

• General organizational power: the capacity of performing any administrative act related to a specific organization.

«RPOWER» = perform ANY «ADMINISTRATIVE ACT» for ANY «PUBLIC SERVICE» (under the competence of {PUBLIC BODY})

• Mandator: legal or natural person that grants a representation power to a mandatee.
• Mandatee: legal or natural persona that have a representation power granted by a mandator.
• Mandate: record that describes the terms under which a mandator grants a representation power to a mandatee for a certain period of time.

  «MANDATOR» grant power «RPOWER» to «MANDATEE» during «PERIOD»

  Note: This glossary proposal does not consider cardinalities of the terms involved.

[paulakeen]

Dear Ana Rosa,

many thanks for this contribution. Precisely these days we are revewing the glossary based on the latest developments of the Ontology and the comment s by SEMPER. Yours are appreciated and we'll take them onboard in our own glossay, which we intend is align to SEMPER's.

However we would like to discuss some aspects on both SEMPER's and your proposals. For instance:

1. The scope of RPaM is, in principle, public and private sectors. Thus we need to generalise our definitions so they do not focus only on the "administrative" aspects.
2. We use a methodology for definitions based on ISO 11179, as our objective is to define "data elements" that will go in the ontology. Although interested also in any business domain concept (and corresponding terms and definition), we will focus on the concepts that are represented in the Ontology. Some of which are pretty well defined in your text (like mandate, for example).
3. According to the methodology we use, our definitions intend to be aligned to the scope of the project. As our scope is broad our definitions can be more generic and shorther than yours. For example, we would not include the tail "[..] for a certain period of time." in the definition of mandate.
4. Also, the methodology imposes the need for not overexplaining things in the definition. Hence we keep our definitions short. Nonetheless we use an "Additional Information" field where detailed explanations, use cases, examples, etc. are added when they contribute to clarify the definition.
5. Very interesting the differentiation you do between Power and Representation Power.

We're preparing a HTML version of the RPaM ontology so every definition can be "browsed" from the Conceptual Data Model.

[anarosa-es]

Thanks Paula for your comments. I'd only want to say that my contribution is outside SEMPER. It is only regarding our scope of expertise: Public Administration. I am aware that you have a broader scope, but we only can contribute in regards of Public Adminsitration in Spain. These try to be "simple definitions" not "ontological concepts". The aim is to clearify some doubts could be on what is a mandate exactly, but is not intended to give either general definitions for every scope not definitive definitions. I was hoping that contributions from experts in each scope can help to find a comprehensive ontology, so I'm glad to add some insights. Thanks again.