Add “Type” as property for "Organization"

[practicalparticipation]

From #171

Add “Type” as property for "Organization"

we have to state whether the supplier is a small or medium enterprise and whether it is a voluntary or community sector organisation (it could be both an SME and a VCS organization). Suspect there will be similar issues in other jurisdictions, eg minority-owned businesses in US.

[AlCollier]

There are EU definitions of micro, small and medium at http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/files/sme_definition/sme_user_guide_en.pdf which might serve as a codelist.

[jpmckinney]

MX's CompraNet has such fields as well (for SME, etc.).

[akuckartz]

Please use SKOS and the W3C Organisation Ontology.

[jpmckinney]

From #181:

The CompraNet (Mexico) data classifies awardees according to size. The UK similarly needs to track SME participation. I've had to fill in such fields on US procurement forms as well. Supplier diversity, within the scope of supply chain initiatives, has also come up as important to community organizations, i.e. "opportunities for social enterprise, small-to-medium sized businesses, and certified diverse suppliers."

[CountCulture]

I think "Type" is a bit of a misleading label -- I might read type to mean legal form, or whether it's profit/non-profit. What's being discussed here appears to be more of a classification than a type, and more than that a classification that is jurisdiction-specific (or maybe even agency/domain-specific). For example, I have a feeling the UK SME classification is subtly different from the EU (although the EU may be used in EU contexts). Also our experience in US contracting is that this is one of a number of classifications, including minority or veteran-owned, and so there perhaps needs to be 0..n such classifications. Finally these are probably classifications for the organisation at time of contract award, rather than an immutable attribute. HTH

[jpmckinney]

W3C Registered Organization Vocabulary uses orgType to mean "SA, PLC, LLC, GmbH etc." (Aside: in terms of terminology, in OCDS we've avoided abbreviations – so it'd become organization_type – and we also avoid repeating the class name before the property name – so it'd then become type.)

I think to resolve the issue @CountCulture addresses, we can use Classification objects with specific schemes? Thoughts?

[timgdavies]

This issue is taken forward in #369

[jpmckinney]

Closed with creation of https://github.com/open-contracting/ocds_partyDetails_scale_extension