[Buildingdata] Southampton Org Structure

[Christopher Gutteridge]

I've just been promised getting a daily report from the university HR 
systems of our structure, down below the current levels. Here's a quick 
summary as it may be of interest to Edinburgh and other places 
considering organograms.

We appear to use 10 digit codes, eg.

F7FP020900

Where each 2 characters describe a level in the tree. 2 character codes 
containing a letter are the finance dept. codes for things (cost 
centres?). Numeric levels are organisational only.

I plan to continue to use the 2 digit letter codes in URIs, but when it 
also has a numeric code I'll use the full 10 digits.

eg.
http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7
http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/FP
http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7FP020000
http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7FP020900

As this is how they seem to be used in other databases. I may consider 
making aliases eg.
http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7 sameAs 
http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7000000
http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/FP sameAs 
http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7FP0000

we just use the very straightforward |org:hasSubOrganization| to relate 
things together. Anything else is more semantics than I'm provided, 
currently.

One *interesting* little quirk, is that there's a few codes in the 
phonebook system which DON'T exist in the HR system. There's a handful 
of odds and sods which are *not* parts of the university of Southampton 
but do have people or other things associated with them. The best 
example is the bookshop which is NOT part of the university but 
obviously we have, or had, them in the university phonebook. I think for 
the revised version I'll only *show* organisation elements provided by 
HR, but will still allow URIs to be based on those weird codes in the 
phonebook.

Phew.

Oh, and I think I'll maybe make the top-level page just show the top 
levels, not the subsections, but provide a "one big darn list" view.

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248

/ Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
/ Web Projects Manager, ECS, University of Southampton, http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
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