Organization

Generalization is Agent.

Superclass hierarchy

Definition

Collection of people organized within a framework of authority that can perform an act or be associated with another agent.

Examples

U.S. Census Bureau, University of Michigan/ISR, Norwegian Centre for Research Data, working group, project group

Explanatory notes

Related to org:Organization which is described as “Represents a collection of people organized together into a community or other…” A framework of authority designated to act toward some purpose.


Subclasses


Properties

Name

Description

Data Type

Multi- plicity

contactInformation

Contact information for the organization including location specification, address, URL, phone numbers, and other means of communication access. Sets of information can be repeated and date-stamped.

ContactInformation

0..1

ddiId

Agency identifier of the organization expressed as filed with the DDI Agency ID registry [registry.ddialliance.org] with optional additional sub-agency extensions.

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0..*

organizationName

Names by which the organization is known.

OrganizationName

1..*

Inherited Properties

Name

Description

Data Type

Multi- plicity

agency

Agency expressed as filed with the DDI Agency ID registry [registry.ddialliance.org] with optional additional sub-agency extensions.

:ref:``

1..1

id

ID conforming to the allowed structure of the DDI Identifier and must be unique within the Agency.

:ref:``

1..1

isPersistent

Default value is false indicating that the content of the current version may change (may be in development mode). Set to true when the content of this version will no longer change.

:ref:``

1..1

isUniversallyUnique

Default value is false. If the id of the object was created as a Universally Unique ID (UUID) set to true.

:ref:``

1..1

localId

Locally used identifier unique with a specified context, such as a variable name within a dataset.

LocalIdFormat

0..*

version

Version number of the object.

:ref:``

1..1

versionDate

Date and time the object was changed expressed in standard ISO formats.

XSDdate

0..1

versionRationale

Reason for making a new version of the object.

RationaleDefinition

0..1

versionResponsibility

Contributor who has the ownership and responsibility for the current version.

:ref:``

0..1

agentId
from Agent

Identifier of an agent within a specified system.

AgentId

0..*

image
from Agent

Information regarding image associated with the agent.

PrivateImage

0..*

purpose
from Agent

Intent or reason for describing the agent.

InternationalStructuredString

0..1

Diagram

TBD

@startuml

skinparam {
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class Organization [[http://plantuml.com/link]] {
  ^flightNumber : Integer [0..1] [[[http://plantuml.com/link]]]
  departureTime : Date
}
abstract class Agents::Agent
Agents::Agent <|-- Organization
abstract class AnnotatedIdentifiable
AnnotatedIdentifiable <|-- Agents::Agent
Organization "0..1" -> "0..*" Xtest : contains

@enduml

Class ‘Agent’ and neighbors