[Buildingdata] Re: Southampton Org Structure

[David F. Flanders]

This is pretty cool chris, was there any difficulty convincing HR to provide
the dumps? Are you interfacing w their HR system? /dff
On 8 Aug 2011 17:23, "Christopher Gutteridge" <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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
>
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