Politics Ontology
An ontology which describes a model for politics, specifically in terms of local government and elections. This is an evolving spec, originally designed to cope with UK (England and Northern Ireland) Local, and European Elections in May 2014.
Authors
http://www.r4isstatic.com/
Created Date
2014-01-06
Version
0.9
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Ontology Terms
Automatically generated documentation for the ontology terms.
Classes
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/politics/Constituency
Description
An electoral area or division, which can be represented in a political institution.
Superclasses
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/politics/Council
Description
An organization with a formal role in local administration or government.
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/politics/Election
Description
An event which encapsulates the formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.
Superclasses
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/politics/PoliticalParty
Description
An organization which seeks to influence, direct, or entirely perform government policy, commonly with a shared vision, ideals and goals which unites its' members and
supporters.
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/politics/StatisticalGeography
Description
A type of geographical bounded area defined specifically to cover political boundaries.
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Subclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/politics/governsGSS
Description
property to relate a political organisation, such as a Council, to the area of Statistical Geography which it governs.