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<h1 class="title">Legal Form Vocabulary (LFOV)</h1>
<h3 class="author">Thomas Hoppe ([email protected])</h3>
<h4 class="date">2014-04-07 (version rev11-dirty)</h4>
</header>
<h1>Table of Contents</h1>
<nav id="TOC">
<ul>
<li><a href="#introduction"><span class="toc-section-number">1</span> Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#status-of-this-document"><span class="toc-section-number">2</span> Status of this Document</a></li>
<li><a href="#namespaces"><span class="toc-section-number">3</span> Namespaces</a></li>
<li><a href="#overview-of-the-vocabulary"><span class="toc-section-number">4</span> Overview of the Vocabulary</a><ul>
<li><a href="#vocabulary-index"><span class="toc-section-number">4.1</span> Vocabulary Index</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#example"><span class="toc-section-number">5</span> Example</a></li>
<li><a href="#relationship-with-the-registered-organization-vocabulary"><span class="toc-section-number">6</span> Relationship with the Registered Organization Vocabulary</a></li>
<li><a href="#vocabulary-definitions"><span class="toc-section-number">7</span> Vocabulary Definitions</a><ul>
<li><a href="#the-legal-form-class"><span class="toc-section-number">7.1</span> The Legal Form Class</a></li>
<li><a href="#properties"><span class="toc-section-number">7.2</span> Properties</a><ul>
<li><a href="#name"><span class="toc-section-number">7.2.1</span> name</a></li>
<li><a href="#acronym"><span class="toc-section-number">7.2.2</span> acronym</a></li>
<li><a href="#legislation"><span class="toc-section-number">7.2.3</span> legislation</a></li>
<li><a href="#limitedliability"><span class="toc-section-number">7.2.4</span> limitedLiability</a></li>
<li><a href="#shared"><span class="toc-section-number">7.2.5</span> shared</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#conformance"><span class="toc-section-number">8</span> Conformance</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
<section id="introduction" class="level1">
<h1><a href="#introduction"><span class="header-section-number">1</span> Introduction</a></h1>
<p>The <strong>Legal Form Vocabulary</strong> vocabulary defined in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schema">RDFS</a> allows to describe legal forms under which individuals or organizations carry on some kind of economic, charitable or in other ways beneficial activity. This includes but is not limited to forms of the private law such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Company_Regulation">European SE</a> or the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_mit_beschr%C3%A4nkter_Haftung">German GmbH</a>; But also cooperatives, associations or forms of the public law. The status of a legal form is usually gained by some formal registration within a jurisdiction but this is not always the case.</p>
<p>The vocabulary is available in the following serializations:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="legal_form_vocab.jsonld">JSON-LD</a> (source)</li>
<li><a href="legal_form_vocab.rdf">RDF/XM</a></li>
<li><a href="legal_form_vocab.ttl">Turtle</a></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="status-of-this-document" class="level1">
<h1><a href="#status-of-this-document"><span class="header-section-number">2</span> Status of this Document</a></h1>
<p>This vocabulary has been developed by <a href="http://www.n-fuse.de">n-fuse GmbH</a> and is intended for public use.</p>
<p>We consider the overall status experimental but it may already be used productively.</p>
<p><strong>How to contribute</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Express legal forms in the terms of LFOV</li>
<li>Map other ontologies to LFOV</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/n-fuse/legal-form-vocab/issues">Comment</a> on the specification</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/n-fuse/legal-form-vocab/">Change</a> the current draft</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Revision history</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="legal_form_vocab-1cc623f.html"><code>2014-04-07 10:00:30 +0200</code></a>: <a href="https://github.com/n-fuse/legal-form-vocab.gitcommit/1cc623f854fcfcfb6e7da0aa73a7ec8ac89ac87d">first draft</a></li>
<li><a href="legal_form_vocab-2075a82.html"><code>2014-04-07 09:54:37 +0200</code></a>: <a href="https://github.com/n-fuse/legal-form-vocab.gitcommit/2075a8243df69843d5b0153fcce8470570b9f710">first draft</a></li>
<li><a href="legal_form_vocab-31bacab.html"><code>2014-04-07 09:32:54 +0200</code></a>: <a href="https://github.com/n-fuse/legal-form-vocab.gitcommit/31bacab29f9e85d2bad57a610b7cdf1aca597387">first draft</a></li>
<li><a href="legal_form_vocab-b1673d6.html"><code>2014-04-07 08:23:31 +0200</code></a>: <a href="https://github.com/n-fuse/legal-form-vocab.gitcommit/b1673d6809b7f0e6100cda7755bf3bbacc014fab">first draft</a></li>
<li><a href="legal_form_vocab-a787416.html"><code>2014-04-02 23:02:41 +0200</code></a>: <a href="https://github.com/n-fuse/legal-form-vocab.gitcommit/a787416bb3985c070b9969f7eb4a37c8f75fc2fe">a good starting point</a></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="namespaces" class="level1">
<h1><a href="#namespaces"><span class="header-section-number">3</span> Namespaces</a></h1>
<p><em>This section is non-normative.</em></p>
<p>The namespace of the Legal Form vocabulary is <code>https://w3id.org/legal_form#</code> and the preferred prefix is <code>lfov</code>.</p>
<p>A full set of namespaces and prefixes used in this document is shown in the table below.</p>
<table id="namespaces">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>
Prefix
</th>
<th>
Namespace
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
rov
</td>
<td>
http://www.w3.org/ns/regorg#
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
org
</td>
<td>
http://www.w3.org/ns/org#
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
skos
</td>
<td>
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
xsd
</td>
<td>
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="overview-of-the-vocabulary" class="level1">
<h1><a href="#overview-of-the-vocabulary"><span class="header-section-number">4</span> Overview of the Vocabulary</a></h1>
<p><em>This section is non-normative.</em></p>
<p>The key class is <code>lfov:LegalForm</code> which represents a legal form. The exact properties of a legal form are defined by the legislative authorities within its corresponding jurisdiction. This vocabulary defines properties to formally describe general aspects of a legal form – e. g. whether it is a commercial or non-commercial one.</p>
<p>This vocabulary makes use of classes and properties from several other vocabularies. Essential are the <code>org:classification</code> from <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-vocab-org-20140116/">The Organization Ontology</a> and the <code>skos:Concept</code> from the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/08/skos-reference/skos.html">Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)</a>.</p>
<section id="vocabulary-index" class="level2">
<a id="Vocabulary Index"></a><h2><a href="#vocabulary-index"><span class="header-section-number">4.1</span> Vocabulary Index</a></h2>
<dl>
<dt>
Classes:
</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#the-legal-form-class">lfov:LegalForm</a>
</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>
Properties:
</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#name">lfov:name</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#acronym">lfov:acronym</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#legislation">lfov:legislation</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#limitedLiability">lfov:limitedLiability</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#shared">lfov:shared</a>
</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
</section>
</section>
<section id="example" class="level1">
<h1><a href="#example"><span class="header-section-number">5</span> Example</a></h1>
<p><em>This section is non-normative.</em></p>
<p>The following is an example of a legal form defin in Germany which is described using the Legal Form vocabulary (in JSON-LD):</p>
<pre><code><http://legalforms.org/indivbiz> a <https://w3id.org/legal_form#LegalForm> ;
lfov:name "Einzelunternehmen"@de,
"Sole Trader"@en-GB,
"Sole Proprietorship"@en-US ;
<legislation> "http://sws.geonames.org/2921044/" ;
<limitedLiability> false .</code></pre>
<p>Use of an instance of a legal form</p>
<pre><code><http://business.data.gov.uk/id/company/04285910>
a rov:RegisteredOrganization ;
rov:legalName "Apple Binding Ltd" ;
rov:orgStatus <http://example.com/ref/status/NormalActivity> ;
rov:orgType <http://legalforms.org/indivbiz> ;</code></pre>
</section>
<section id="relationship-with-the-registered-organization-vocabulary" class="level1">
<h1><a href="#relationship-with-the-registered-organization-vocabulary"><span class="header-section-number">6</span> Relationship with the Registered Organization Vocabulary</a></h1>
<p><em>This section is non-normative.</em></p>
<p>Individuals of the class <code>lfov:LegalForm</code> are intended to be objects of the <code>rov:orgType</code> property. Therefore, it is typed as <code>rdfs:Class</code> and <code>skos:Concept</code>.</p>
</section>
<section id="vocabulary-definitions" class="level1">
<h1><a href="#vocabulary-definitions"><span class="header-section-number">7</span> Vocabulary Definitions</a></h1>
<p>The classes and properties are described in the following sub-sections.</p>
<section id="the-legal-form-class" class="level2">
<a id="The Legal Form Class"></a><h2><a href="#the-legal-form-class"><span class="header-section-number">7.1</span> The Legal Form Class</a></h2>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>
Class
</th>
<th>
Notes
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="code">
lfov:LegalForm
</td>
<td>
Type <code>rdfs:Class</code> and <code>skos:Concept</code>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The Legal Form class is central to the vocabulary; It represents a legal form.</p>
</section>
<section id="properties" class="level2">
<a id="Properties"></a><h2><a href="#properties"><span class="header-section-number">7.2</span> Properties</a></h2>
<section id="name" class="level3">
<h3><a href="#name"><span class="header-section-number">7.2.1</span> name</a></h3>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>
Property
</th>
<th>
Domain
</th>
<th>
Range
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<code> lfov:name<br> rdfs:subPropertyOf<br> skos:prefLabel </code>
</td>
<td>
<code>lfov:LegalForm</code>
</td>
<td>
<code>rdf:langString</code>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The name defined by law.</p>
</section>
<section id="acronym" class="level3">
<h3><a href="#acronym"><span class="header-section-number">7.2.2</span> acronym</a></h3>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>
Property
</th>
<th>
Domain
</th>
<th>
Range
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<code> lfov:acronym<br> rdfs:subPropertyOf<br> skos:altLabel </code>
</td>
<td>
<code>lfov:LegalForm</code>
</td>
<td>
<code>rdf:langString</code>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The acronym defined by law.</p>
</section>
<section id="legislation" class="level3">
<h3><a href="#legislation"><span class="header-section-number">7.2.3</span> legislation</a></h3>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>
Property
</th>
<th>
Domain
</th>
<th>
Range
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<code> lfov:legislation </code>
</td>
<td>
<code>lfov:LegalForm</code>
</td>
<td>
<code></code>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Legislation (e. g. a country or a union thereof), in which this legal form is defined.</p>
</section>
<section id="limitedliability" class="level3">
<h3><a href="#limitedliability"><span class="header-section-number">7.2.4</span> limitedLiability</a></h3>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>
Property
</th>
<th>
Domain
</th>
<th>
Range
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<code> lfov:limitedLiability </code>
</td>
<td>
<code>lfov:LegalForm</code>
</td>
<td>
<code>xsd:boolean</code>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The owners or members of the legal entity are not personally liable for the company’s debts.</p>
</section>
<section id="shared" class="level3">
<h3><a href="#shared"><span class="header-section-number">7.2.5</span> shared</a></h3>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>
Property
</th>
<th>
Domain
</th>
<th>
Range
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<code> lfov:shared </code>
</td>
<td>
<code>lfov:LegalForm</code>
</td>
<td>
<code>xsd:boolean</code>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Defines whether the capital or the ownership itself is divided into shares.</p>
</section>
</section>
</section>
<section id="conformance" class="level1">
<h1><a href="#conformance"><span class="header-section-number">8</span> Conformance</a></h1>
<p>As well as sections marked as non-normative, all authoring guidelines, diagrams, examples, and notes in this specification are non-normative. Everything else in this specification is normative.</p>
<p>The key words <em title="must" class="rfc2119">must</em>, <em title="must not" class="rfc2119">must not</em>, <em title="required" class="rfc2119">required</em>, <em title="should" class="rfc2119">should</em>, <em title="should not" class="rfc2119">should not</em>, <em title="recommended" class="rfc2119">recommended</em>, <em title="may" class="rfc2119">may</em>, and <em title="optional" class="rfc2119">optional</em> in this specification are to be interpreted as described in <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt">RFC2119</a>.</p>
<p>A data interchange, however that interchange occurs, is conformant with the Legal Form vocabulary if:</p>
<ul>
<li>it uses the terms (classes and properties) in a way consistent with their semantics as declared in this specification;</li>
<li>it does not use terms from other vocabularies instead of ones defined in this vocabulary that could reasonably be used.</li>
</ul>
<p>A conforming data interchange:</p>
<ul>
<li><em class="rfc2119">may</em> include terms from other vocabularies;</li>
<li><em class="rfc2119">may</em> use only a subset of Legal Form vocabulary terms.</li>
</ul>
<p>A Legal Form application profile is a specification for data interchange that adds additional constraints. Such additional constraints in a profile may include:</p>
<ul>
<li>a minimum set of required terms;</li>
<li>classes and properties for additional terms not covered in the Legal Form vocabulary;</li>
<li>controlled vocabularies or URI sets as acceptable values for properties;</li>
</ul>
<p>The Legal Form vocabulary is technology-neutral and a publisher may use any of the terms defined in this document encoded in any technology although RDF and XML are preferred.</p>
</section>
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