- From: ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>
- Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 16:00:21 +0000
- To: public-vocabs <public-vocabs@w3.org>
Excerpts from Karen Coyle's message of 2013-07-06 13:14:45 +0000: > I agree that NGO \= non-profit, but non-profit also \= charitable > organization. Depending on the country, NGO's and non-profits are > divided differently. This Wikipedia article gives an idea of the > enormity of this category: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization > > (I had no idea that BINGO, TANGO, BONGO and DONGO, etc., existed!) > > One could create a few high level divisions and use productOntology for > details if needed, although many types here do not (yet) have Wikipedia > pages of their own. I recall Move Commons [1] effort where people work on Creative Commons like badges/tags for movements. They include as one of defined tags [2] Non-Profit / For-Profit IMO using collection of tags/badges one can define organizations in more flexible way then categorization, while not excluding it. In case of 501(c) organizations maybe they could just use commonly recognized badge/certificate? I may send email to Open Badges [3] discussion group [4] asking about self issuing badges and linking them with some common criteria. BTW I see Open Badges documentation for Assertions [5] recommends using LRMI [6] [1] http://movecommons.org [2] http://movecommons.org/preview/ [3] http://openbadges.org [4] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openbadges [5] https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges/wiki/Assertions [6] http://www.lrmi.net
Received on Saturday, 6 July 2013 16:00:49 UTC