<p>This is pretty cool chris, was there any difficulty convincing HR to provide the dumps? Are you interfacing w their HR system? /dff</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 Aug 2011 17:23, "Christopher Gutteridge" <<a href="mailto:cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk">cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> I've just been promised getting a daily report from the university HR <br>
> systems of our structure, down below the current levels. Here's a quick <br>> summary as it may be of interest to Edinburgh and other places <br>> 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 <br>> containing a letter are the finance dept. codes for things (cost <br>> centres?). Numeric levels are organisational only.<br>
> <br>> I plan to continue to use the 2 digit letter codes in URIs, but when it <br>> also has a numeric code I'll use the full 10 digits.<br>> <br>> eg.<br>> <a href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7</a><br>
> <a href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/FP">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/FP</a><br>> <a href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7FP020000">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7FP020000</a><br>> <a 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 <br>> making aliases eg.<br>> <a href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7</a> sameAs <br>> <a href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7000000">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7000000</a><br>
> <a href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/FP">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/FP</a> sameAs <br>> <a href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7FP0000">http://id.southampton.ac.uk/org/F7FP0000</a><br>> <br>> we just use the very straightforward |org:hasSubOrganization| to relate <br>
> things together. Anything else is more semantics than I'm provided, <br>> currently.<br>> <br>> One *interesting* little quirk, is that there's a few codes in the <br>> phonebook system which DON'T exist in the HR system. There's a handful <br>
> of odds and sods which are *not* parts of the university of Southampton <br>> but do have people or other things associated with them. The best <br>> example is the bookshop which is NOT part of the university but <br>
> obviously we have, or had, them in the university phonebook. I think for <br>> the revised version I'll only *show* organisation elements provided by <br>> HR, but will still allow URIs to be based on those weird codes in the <br>
> phonebook.<br>> <br>> Phew.<br>> <br>> Oh, and I think I'll maybe make the top-level page just show the top <br>> levels, not the subsections, but provide a "one big darn list" view.<br>> <br>
> -- <br>> Christopher Gutteridge -- <a href="http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248">http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248</a><br>> <br>> / Lead Developer, EPrints Project, <a href="http://eprints.org/">http://eprints.org/</a><br>
> / Web Projects Manager, ECS, University of Southampton, <a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/</a><br>> / Webmaster, Web Science Trust, <a href="http://www.webscience.org/">http://www.webscience.org/</a><br>
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