Organization

https://publicschema.org/Organization

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A legally or administratively identifiable body that can act within a public delivery process: a government agency, ministry, NGO, UN agency, statistical office, health facility, civil registration office, court, or standards publisher. Organizations are the institutional actors that administer instruments, publish methodologies, evaluate submissions, issue certificates, and operate programs. An Organization's location refers to its own registered or primary site, not to the place where an action it performed happened. Event-level place remains a property of the event record.

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Supertypes

Agent

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.

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. Minimum property set (name, identifiers, location) is pragmatic; richer modelling (parent_organization, legal_form, jurisdiction, contact points, multi-site locations) is deferred to a later iteration.

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 close
SEMIC CPOV defines PublicOrganisation as a formally recognised public-sector body with classification, legal status, and spatial jurisdiction slots. Our Organization covers the broader set of institutional actors in public delivery (government agencies and ministries, but also NGOs, UN agencies, health facilities, and standards publishers). The overlap is exact for public bodies and partial for the rest. CPOV's richer shape (jurisdiction, legal status, purpose, contact point) is a natural target if Organization is later extended.
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.

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