addressing needs of organizational structures

[lzehl]

Currently in openMINDS:

LegalPerson:

• Person (natural person; properties: affiliation, alternateName, associatedAccount, contactInformation, digitalIndentifier, familyName, givenName)
• Organization (artificial person; properties: affiliation, digitalIdentifier, fullName, hasParent, homepage, shortName)

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• Consortium (no legal capacity; properties: contactInformation, fullName, homepage, shortName)
  (LegalPerson -> Affiliation --> Consortium)

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• Affiliation (properties: memberOf, startDate, endDate)
  (LegalPerson -> Affiliation --> Consortium | Organization)

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-> embedded type
--> linked type
required property

Suggestion for future (TBD):

Person

• add name (make this required instead of givenName)
• change associatedAccount to account

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Organization

• add type (controlledTerm: university, hospital, non-profit organization, company, ...?) or split up into distinct types?
• add geographicalLocation (link to new schema)

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Consortium

• should they also get an affiliation?

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Affiliation

• may need a back link to ResearchProduct(Version) (related to Linkage of affiliations to research products #500)?

[tgbugs]

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