Organization

https://publicschema.org/Organization

candidate

A legally or administratively identifiable body, public or private, for profit or not, such as a company, cooperative, association, non-governmental organization, government agency, ministry, UN agency, health facility, court or standards publisher. An organization can act in a process, for example by administering a program, deciding a case or issuing a certificate, and it can also receive services or benefits, for example as an enrolled beneficiary or a licence holder. An Organization's location refers to its own registered or primary site, not to the place where an action it performed happened. A sole proprietorship is recorded as an Organization where the register of its jurisdiction treats the business as a body distinct from the person who runs it; otherwise it is recorded on the Person, and an application profile states which pattern applies.

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Supertypes

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Properties

Property Type Definition
Identity
Name string
The full display name of the record. Depending on the concept, this is a person's or group's name, or the title of a program, instrument, scoring rule, or software product.
Identifiers concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Location
Location concept:Location
The geographic location of the subject of this record, captured as coordinates or administrative area.
Administrative
Economic activities concept:CodedValue
The economic activities the organization carries out, each coded in a classification of economic activities. ISIC is the international reference; a register may use NACE, NAICS or a national adaptation. The order of the values does not mark a principal activity.
Formation date date The date on which this group or organization was formed or registered.
Dissolution date date
The date on which the organization ceased to exist or was removed from the register, such as by dissolution, liquidation or striking off. It is the counterpart of the formation date.

Evidence

Not yet found in mapped delivery systems.

No mapped delivery system carries a first-class Organization concept. In practice, organizations appear as free-text publisher names on instruments, as implicit issuers on certificates, and as unmodelled administrative context around program operations. Standards bodies are consistent: FOAF, schema.org, PROV-O, and FHIR all have a named Organization concept. ADR-008 set a pragmatic minimum property set (name, identifiers, location). ADR-025 added legal_form and formation_date, and records parent organizations and contact points as InstitutionalRelationship and ContactPoint records; ADR-028 added economic_activities and dissolution_date. Jurisdiction and multi-site locations remain deferred.

Standard Equivalent Match
FOAF Organization exact
foaf:Organization is the direct equivalent: a kind of agent corresponding to social institutions such as companies, societies, and so on.
CPOV Public Organisation narrow
SEMIC CPOV PublicOrganisation is a formally recognised public-sector body. It is narrower than Organization, which also covers NGOs, UN agencies, health facilities and standards publishers. PublicOrganization holds the exact match.
schema.org Organization exact
schema.org Organization is the direct equivalent, sibling to schema:Person under schema:Thing. Richer subtypes (GovernmentOrganization, NGO, MedicalOrganization) are available in schema.org but not yet mirrored here.
PROV-O Organization exact
prov:Organization is the PROV-O equivalent: an agent that is a social institution. Sibling to prov:Person and prov:SoftwareAgent under prov:Agent.
FHIR R4 Organization close
FHIR Organization covers formally or informally recognised groupings of people or organizations formed for the purpose of achieving some form of collective action. Our Organization starts with a minimum property set (name, identifiers, location); FHIR adds contact points, active flag, and type categorization that may be added in future iterations.

Referenced by this concept

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