Addresses¶
The Organization Ontology represents addresses (postal and email) as “things” that denote organizations.
Email Addresses¶
IAO_0000429 is the term id for the class email address. It is an information artifact
that denotes an
organization and has a text string representation.
If y is the URI of an organization we can say y has email address info@abc.com by asserting:
y denoted_by x
x a email_address
x has_email_representation "info@abc.com"
Because the email address is a thing, we can assign qualities to it. Email addresses may have purposes (dispositions) to help users route email effectively. We might say:
x has_disposition z
z a information_address_disposition
to indicate that x is an email address that can be used by people to ask questions and get help.
Postal Addresses¶
Postal addresses are represented in a manner analogous to email addresses – postal
addresses are information artifacts that denote an organization. Like email
addresses they may have qualities (dispositions) that help people use the postal
address effectively. Postal addresses are things. The term ID is IAO_0000422.
Postal addresses are text strings in which the “parts” of a postal address are delimited by semicolons. Applications can parse these strings into parts needed by the application. Parts and parsing vary by jurisdiction but should conform to Universal Postal Union standards in implementations.
To say org y has a billing postal address, we can assert:
y denoted_by x
x a postal_address
x has_disposition z
z a billing_address_disposition
x has_postal_address_representation "line 1; line 2; city; region; country; postal-code"
Terms used to represent Addresses¶
Table 11 Terms used to represent addresses lists term ids used in the representation of addresses
Term |
Notes |
|---|---|
An organization is denoted by an address |
|
An entity with properties and a value |
|
A datatype property to contain an email address string |
|
Object property relating an entity to a disposition |
|
A quality of an adress to obtain information |
|
An entity with properties and a value for postal delivery |
|
An address used to send bills to an entity |
|
An datatype property to contain a postal address string |