Transmodel Ontology - Organisations
type: Ontology
version IRI: https://w3id.org/transmodel/organisations/0.2
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
creator: Adolfo Antón Bravo (Ontology Engineering Group - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
creator: Oscar Corcho (Ontology Engineering Group - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
creator: Mario Scrocca (CEFRIEL)
date: 2019-10-06
description: Module of the Transmodel Ontology focused on organisations. This ontology provides support to the NeTEx model. Visit https://github.com/oeg-upm/transmodel-ontology
rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
preferred namespace uri: https://w3id.org/transmodel/organisations#
version info: This is the initial version of the module on Organisations, after considering the UML models and XSD descriptions of Transmodel and NeTEx

characterised by
type: ObjectProperty
sub property of: contactPoint
domain: Organisation
range: Contact Details
comment: This property relates an Organisation with its corresponding Contact Details. It is a subproperty of schema:contactPoint, which relates anything to a ContactPoint

operates in administrative zone
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Operator
range: Administrative Zone

provides service
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Organisation

language
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: Organisation
range: language
comment: The language in which an organisation operates

Administrative Zone
type: Class
subclass of: Zone
comment: The area of a district, a region, a city, a municipality or other area with which an Organization has a responsability role.

Authority
type: Class
subclass of: Organisation
disjoint with: Organisation
comment: Public Transport Authority, the organization under which the responsability of organising the TransportService in a certain area (AdministrativeZone) is placed

Contact Details
type: Class
subclass of: ContactPoint
comment: Contact Details for an Organisation. A subclass of schema:ContactPoint. As such, it can be the domain of properties like schema:url, schema:telephone, schema:email, etc.

ControlCentre
type: Class
subclass of: OrganisationPart
comment: An OrganisationPart for an operational team who are responsible for issuing commands to control the services

Department
type: Class
subclass of: OrganisationPart
comment: An OrganisationPart specific to a purpose and/or organisational structure

Management Agent
type: Class
subclass of: Organisation
comment: Specialisation of Organisation for Management Agent

Operator
type: Class
subclass of: Organisation
disjoint with: Authority
comment: A company providing Public Transport Services. In GTFS, this is represented as a TransitAgency

Organisation
type: Class
subclass of: Organization
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: timeZone
  all values from: Thing
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: classification
  all values from: Class
    intersection of: Concept
    intersection of: Restriction
      on property: inScheme
      has value: organisation-type
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: hasUnit
  all values from: OrganisationPart
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: characterised by
  all values from: Contact Details
subclass of: Restriction
  on property: language
  all values from: language
comment: A legally incorporated body associated with any aspect of the transport system
comment: TODO: Check how many of these properties need to be added to cover completely the TransModel model: legalName, remarks, status, shortName, tradingName, validFromDate and validToDate, in case that they are not included already in the W3C Organization ontology
comment: TODO: Modify the range of the property timeZone so that it reflects time:TimeZone, as described in the OWL Time ontology.

OrganisationPart
type: Class
subclass of: OrganizationalUnit
comment: A part of an organisation to which a set of responsabilities upon the data and data management may be assigned

OrganisationalUnit
type: Class
subclass of: OrganisationPart
comment: An OrganisationPart to which a set of responsabilities in an organisation for planning and control is assigned

Retail Consortium
type: Class
subclass of: GroupOfEntities
subclass of: Organisation
comment: A group of Organisations formally incorporated as a retailer of Fare Products.

Serviced Organisation
type: Class
subclass of: Organisation
comment: A public or private organisation for which public transport services are provided on specific days (DayType), e.g., a school, university or works

Travel Agent
type: Class
subclass of: Organisation
comment: Specialisation of Organisation for Travel Agent

organisation-type
type: NamedIndividual
type: ConceptScheme
comment: Concept scheme where all the codelists for the types of organisations that are included in the Transmodel ontology

responsability-role-type
type: NamedIndividual
type: ConceptScheme
comment: Concept scheme where all the codelists for the types of responsability role for organisations that are included in the Transmodel ontology

name: Adolfo Anton-Bravo