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Non-financial reporting for Organizations #230

Open oboklob opened 7 years ago

oboklob commented 7 years ago

Organisation have a number of business transparency documents that they publish, or are required to by laws of various countries to make public (often via their websites). These are such things as:

and associated reports and compliance statements (related to specific legislation)

Each of which are CreativeWorks

I see that recently there is proposal for an extension around diversityPolicy and other properties specific to NewsMediaOrganizations

I would like to propose that these become a more general extension related to non-financial reporting, or either way I would want to start an extension for non-financial reporting for the types of documents above.

I am the CTO for tiscreport.org which is currently the largest open data anti-slavery register, so you can see my interest here. Before I plough ahead on proposing any form of extension I wanted to pick your collective brains on the best approach.

My early thoughts were simply to have a set of new CreativeWork types, each of which could be attributed to belong to a specific Organization via sourceOrganization, but I note that diversityPolicy has gone down the route of being a property itself. I quite like that approach, but at first glance I think the following may fit better:

A nonFinancialReport property (or similar) for Organisations which would be a CreativeWork, and defined by the type of CreativeWork or a property.

As an added interesting tie-up, the statements often relate to legislation e.g. UK Modern Slavery Act statements relate to the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 Section 54, which I guess would be an item that could be defined within the new Legislation extension and would be an ideal additional property.

Am I barking up the right tree? and is there advice on how best to approach this, or shall I keep going and propose this more formally?

github-actions[bot] commented 4 years ago

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RichardWallis commented 3 years ago

See issue #7 for the context of the move from the main Schema.org issue tracker to this repository.