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International legislative data specifications
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"reports to" for committees and other types of organizations #106

Closed kaerumy closed 9 years ago

kaerumy commented 9 years ago

How do we implement this in popolo, or is a field needed?

Various committees, commissions etc. are set up to report on something, to an organization or person.

Examples:

jpmckinney commented 9 years ago

In many cases, simply using organizational hierarchies achieves this. Parliamentary committees are suborganizations of parliament, and they therefore report to parliament. Are there any cases where organizational hierarchy would be inappropriate?

kaerumy commented 9 years ago

On further thought, I think sub-organization is best. A government organization or committee has to exist as a creation of something else. When this information is missing, parent is probably best left empty, until the parent organization can be found in our case.