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Kirrily Robert wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On May 4, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Shawn Simister wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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?
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I dunno. We've modelled <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.freebase.com/view/en/order_of_saint_benedict">http://www.freebase.com/view/en/order_of_saint_benedict</a>
and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.freebase.com/view/en/levellers">http://www.freebase.com/view/en/levellers</a> 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.
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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?<br>
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Shawn<br>
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