[Data-modeling] Community Associations

[Shawn Simister]

I've been thinking about modeling community associations and their 
relationships to neighborhoods and I was wondering which approach would 
be best. As far as I know, a voluntary association is sort of like an 
organization except that it doesn't need to be incorporated or have any 
sort of legal status. Its basically just a bunch of people getting 
together. Because of the semantic differences, I'm hesitant to use the 
Organization type to model associations.

If I create a new set of types to model associations, should I mimic the 
layout of the Organization domain with a generalized Association type 
and complementary Association Member and Association Scope types? Or 
should I just create a Community Association type with a list of members 
and a neighborhood property?

Shawn