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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.<br>
<br>
We appear to use 10 digit codes, eg.<br>
<br>
F7FP020900<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
eg.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/FP">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/FP</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7FP020000">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7FP020000</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7FP020900">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7FP020900</a><br>
<br>
As this is how they seem to be used in other databases. I may
consider making aliases eg. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7</a> sameAs
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7000000">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7000000</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/FP">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/FP</a> sameAs
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7FP0000">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7FP0000</a><br>
<br>
we just use the very straightforward <code>org:hasSubOrganization</code>
to relate things together. Anything else is more semantics than I'm
provided, currently.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Phew.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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Christopher Gutteridge -- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248">http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248</a>
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