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ORG

Organization Ontology

Core ontology for organizational structures — hierarchies, roles, memberships, sites. Widely used in government data.

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Use Cases

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01

Government organizational data publishing

02

Corporate structure knowledge graphs

03

Employee directory linked data

04

Inter-organizational relationship modeling

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License
Open
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Derived from the Organization Ontology, Copyright (c) 2014 World Wide Web Consortium. https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents. Source: https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/

Verified against the licence text on 2026-08-07.

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