[Data-modeling] Organization v. Company

[Jeff Prucher]

Property delegation won't help you here, since all it would do is co-type
organizations as companies (or vice versa) when those properties are filled
out.  I'd say that the AST is an organization, but not a company.  There's
an open task to create a schema for non-profit organizations that I'm
currently working on, which might resolve this. 

Jeff P

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> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Fry
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:41 PM
> To: data-modeling at freebase.com
> Subject: [Data-modeling] Organization v. Company
> 
> 
> I was just looking at 
> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/association_for_software_testi
> ng which I typed some time back as an Organization and a 
> Company. I see now that the Company and Organization each 
> list one board member...but not the same one. I can just 
> delete the board member from Organization and add it to 
> Company, or vice versa, but I'm wondering if this (and many 
> other properties of Organization) should be delegated to Company? 
> 
> Another option would be to say something should be listed as 
> a Company or an Organization, but not both. The only problem 
> I'd have with that is that Company includes Legal Structure, 
> and Organization includes Number of Members...and I'd like to 
> be able to track both. 
> 
> Where are we at with this model? Is there an established 
> right way for me to do this? Now that property delegation is 
> getting easier, should one of these types get properties 
> delegated from the other? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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