Bioinformatics Web Service Ontology

Last uploaded: December 18, 2012
Preferred Name

organization

Synonyms
Definitions

An organization is a continuant entity which can play roles, has members, and has a set of organization rules. Members of organizations are either organizations themselves or individual people. Members can bear specific organization member roles that are determined in the organization rules. The organization rules also determine how decisions are made on behalf of the organization by the organization members.

ID

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245

definition

An organization is a continuant entity which can play roles, has members, and has a set of organization rules. Members of organizations are either organizations themselves or individual people. Members can bear specific organization member roles that are determined in the organization rules. The organization rules also determine how decisions are made on behalf of the organization by the organization members.

definition source

GROUP: OBI

editor note

BP: The definition summarizes long email discussions on the OBI developer, roles, biomaterial and denrie branches. It leaves open if an organization is a material entity or a dependent continuant, as no consensus was reached on that. The current placement as material is therefore temporary, in order to move forward with development. Here is the entire email summary, on which the definition is based: 1) there are organization_member_roles (president, treasurer, branch editor), with individual persons as bearers 2) there are organization_roles (employer, owner, vendor, patent holder) 3) an organization has a charter / rules / bylaws, which specify what roles there are, how they should be realized, and how to modify the charter/rules/bylaws themselves. It is debatable what the organization itself is (some kind of dependent continuant or an aggregate of people). This also determines who/what the bearer of organization_roles' are. My personal favorite is still to define organization as a kind of 'legal entity', but thinking it through leads to all kinds of questions that are clearly outside the scope of OBI. Interestingly enough, it does not seem to matter much where we place organization itself, as long as we can subclass it (University, Corporation, Government Agency, Hospital), instantiate it (Affymetrix, NCBI, NIH, ISO, W3C, University of Oklahoma), and have it play roles. This leads to my proposal: We define organization through the statements 1 - 3 above, but without an 'is a' statement for now. We can leave it in its current place in the is_a hierarchy (material entity) or move it up to 'continuant'. We leave further clarifications to BFO, and close this issue for now.

editor preferred term

organization

example of usage

PMID: 16353909.AAPS J. 2005 Sep 22;7(2):E274-80. Review. The joint food and agriculture organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization Expert Committee on Food Additives and its role in the evaluation of the safety of veterinary drug residues in foods.

has curation status

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000122

label

organization

prefixIRI

OBI:0000245

prefLabel

organization

term editor

PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg

PERSON: Susanna Sansone

PERSON: Bjoern Peters

PERSON: Philippe Rocca-Serra

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000040

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Organization Instances     malone@ebi.ac.uk Comment 2010-06-17
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OMRSE SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 AIO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 FOODON SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 FOODON SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 HTN SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 SATO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 HANCESTRO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 EFO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 RBO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 AIO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 PDRO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 EUPATH SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 CLO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 CTO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OBI SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 VICO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 INBANCIDO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OVAE SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OHD SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 PSDO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OHPI SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 NDDO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 FOVT SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 CHEAR SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 NGBO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 MS SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 CRENO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 ONE SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OPMI SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OBI_BCGO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 AGRO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 VDOT SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 ONTODM-CORE SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 BCO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 ORCS SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 EGO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OOSTT SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 HSO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 ORNASEQ SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OBIB SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 BERO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 ONS SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OLAM SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 HHEAR SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 APOLLO-SV SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 STATO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 CIDO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OBI_IEE SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 NGSONTO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 ICO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 KTAO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 SWO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 GENEPIO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 GEO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 COB SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 VO SAME_URI
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OGSF SAME_URI
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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 ICD10PCS LOOM
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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 ICD9CM LOOM
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 MEDDRA LOOM
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 WHO-ART LOOM
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 ICD10CM LOOM
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 ICPC2P LOOM
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 MDDB LOOM
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 ICD10 LOOM
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 MESH LOOM
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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 AI-RHEUM LOOM
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 ATC LOOM
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 PDQ LOOM
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 MSTDE LOOM
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 HL7 LOOM
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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 CRISP LOOM
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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T092 RXNORM LOOM
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https://w3id.org/linkml-common/Organization COMET LOOM
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https://w3id.org/gdmt/Organization GDMT LOOM
http://PharmAccess/MomCare/#Organization MOMCARE LOOM
http://purl.org/metabus/99253 TESTING_BOSCO LOOM
http://purl.org/metabus/99253 METABUS LOOM
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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/HL7/C1561598 HL7 LOOM
http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#Organization BCI-O LOOM
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/LNC/LP96544-9 LOINC LOOM
http://doe-generated-ontology.com/OntoAD#Organization ONTOAD LOOM
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http://vocab.fairdatacollective.org/gdmt/Organization GDMT LOOM
https://schema.org/Organization MOSAIC LOOM
https://schema.org/Organization SWEET LOOM
https://schema.org/Organization PROJ LOOM
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https://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization G-PROV LOOM
http://purl.org/datacite/v4.4/Organization DATACITE-VOCAB LOOM
http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology#Organization TOK LOOM
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C92453 NCIT LOOM
http://ontriscal#Organization ONTRISCAL LOOM
http://qudt.org/schema/qudt/Organization QUDT2 LOOM
http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/2008/1/Ontology1204037102846.owl#Organization SITBAC LOOM
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/sep_00078 SEP LOOM
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http://www.bridgmodel.org/owl#Organization BRIDG LOOM
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http://www.w3.org/ns/org#Organization BRSO LOOM
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http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#Organization VIVO-ISF LOOM
http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#Organization VIVO LOOM
http://www.semanticweb.org/schra/ontologies/2017/4/PRIME_NewOntology#Organization PSO LOOM
http://schema.org/Organization SCHEMA LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization PROVO LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization HHEARP LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization CHEAR LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization NEUROBRG LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization MIAPA LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization DCAT-FDC LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization SCO LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization SEPIO LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization HHEAR LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization HASCO LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization NIDM-RESULTS LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization GBOL LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization PROJ LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization G-PROV LOOM
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization REPRODUCE-ME LOOM
http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_000012 HHEARP LOOM
http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_000012 CHEAR LOOM
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http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_000012 HASCO LOOM
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http://www.projecthalo.com/aura#Organization AURA LOOM
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#Organization SYN LOOM
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http://aims.fao.org/aos/geopolitical.owl#organization VIVO LOOM
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/creno.owl#Organization CRENO LOOM
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http://www.serviceOntology.org/Organization DCO LOOM
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 SATO LOOM
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OVAE LOOM
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 PSDO LOOM
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 OHPI LOOM
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 CHEAR LOOM
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 MS LOOM
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 ONE LOOM
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 ONS LOOM
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0000245 HHEAR LOOM
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