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ORG_0000060 - organizational membership
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.. topic:: Label

    organizational membership

.. topic:: Editor preferred label

    membership

.. topic:: Sub class of

    :doc:`doc-BFO_0000003`

.. topic:: Definition

    The asymmetric relationship involving two organizations in which one is a member of the other

.. topic:: Definition source

    Michael Conlon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-8447

.. topic:: Example

    Texas A&M University is an organizational member of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities

.. topic:: Editor's note

    Organizational Membership is a Membership, which is a Relationship, which is an Occurrent.  The subsumption is out of scope for the Organizationa Ontology. The existence of a membership implies the existence of a membership creation process and a membership creation process boundary.  These are currently out of scope for the Organization Ontology

.. topic:: Term editor

    Michael Conlon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-8447