Re: ISSUE-38 (Registered what?): Name of the vocab formerly known as Core Business Vocabulary, currently called Legal Entity [Organization Ontology]

On 18/10/12 09:51, Government Linked Data Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
> ISSUE-38 (Registered what?): Name of the vocab formerly known as Core Business Vocabulary, currently called Legal Entity [Organization Ontology]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/38
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> Raised by: Phil Archer
> On product: Organization Ontology
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> The WG recently resolved to change the name of the 'Core Business Vocabulary' as the term was considered too broad and misleading. No objections anywhere.
>
> However, it turns out that the choice of what to rename it to was unfortunate. I'd like to resolve this as part of the ORG to LC debate to clarify the relationship with it (although this does not in any way affect ORG itself).

Seems entirely reasonable to me (IANAC  - I am not a chair) to discuss 
this as a neighbouring agenda item but don't make it part of moving org 
to LC.

[snip]

> 1. Registered business entity (recommended by Rigo)
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> 2. Registered corporate entity (in line with Sandro's view).

Either of these is fine by me.

In British English then corporation has a specific meaning (by Royal 
charter). I would guess that in the UK most people's exposure to the 
term corporation, other than the BBC, is in the context of large 
US-based companies so it has a subjective connotation of "big 
(commercial) business" whatever the technicalities under US law. 
However, I don't think that is fatal as a name for the vocabulary, the 
vocab itself will be specific about what it means.

One other option is simply "registered organization vocabulary", 
technically we can regard it as a profile of ORG after all.

Dave

Received on Thursday, 18 October 2012 09:32:30 UTC