[Data-modeling] Community Associations

[Shawn Simister]

Kirrily Robert wrote:
> On May 4, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Shawn Simister wrote:
>
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
>
> I dunno.  We've modelled http://www.freebase.com/view/en/order_of_saint_benedict 
>   and http://www.freebase.com/view/en/levellers as organizations, so  
> why not neighbourhood associations?  There's nothing in the type docs  
> that says it has to be a legal entity, and legal entities vary from  
> country to country and time to time in any case.
>
> K.
>
>   
Ok, if there's already a precedent for modeling associations as 
organizations then I'll stick with that. Would it be appropriate to 
create an organization sector for community associations so that they 
can be grouped together in a view?

Shawn
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