An Organisation or a part of an Organisation's structure.
Organisation: A formal, goal-orientated group with members and a defined structure, governed by rules and procedures that guide operation.1
In the research information domain Organisation Units typically represents:
- organisations that perform research (universities, research institutes, corporations) and their subdivisions (faculties, schools, departments, research groups) and other associated bodies (boards, advisory bodies);
- organisations that fund research (funders, their divisions and evaluation panels);
- scientific associations and networks;
- publishers, facility operators and other service providers in the research space;
- authorities, such as patent offices and standardization or supervision bodies; and
- other bodies: editorial boards, evaluation panels, or committees of all kinds.
Those of Group or Organisation Unit.
Those of Group or Organisation Unit plus:
is-part-of / has-part : An Organisation Unit can be part of any number of other Organisation Units.
has-part / is-part-of : An Organisation Unit can have any number of parts, instances of Organisation Unit.
is-the-institution-in / has-institution : An Organisation Unit can be the institution in any number of Affiliation Statements.
is-the-organisation-unit-in / has-organisation-unit : A Organisation Unit can is the organisation unit in any number of Affiliation Statements.
- Narrow match of FOAF Organization
- Narrow match of FOAF Group
- Narrow match of Schema.org Organization
[1] Source: The Open Education Sociology Dictionary, https://sociologydictionary.org/organization/