is there a recommended attribute name for an abbreviation of an organization's name?

[mhl]

For organizations that are political parties, it seems to be common that there is a standard abbreviation for that party name, often an initialism. I don't think the spec suggests a attribute name for such an abbreviation, but it might be useful thing to standardise.

[jpmckinney]

Is it worth adding a new property instead of using other_names?

[tmtmtmtm]

I would say it's fine to use other_names as long as there's a consistent way of referencing it.

[akuckartz]

In Germany such abbreviations have a legal foundation and legal inplications. That is one more reason to use a specific property.

[jpmckinney]

@akuckartz Can you give an example to help to document the use case?

[LegoStormtroopr]

We are looking into this as well, and have settled in our internal implementation on code. This is based on the formal "abbreviated name" registered with the Australian Electoral Commission: http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Registered_parties/index.htm

[jpmckinney]

How does code differ semantically from identifier?

[LegoStormtroopr]

identifier can be repeated, we needed to have a strict one-to-code relation of each political Party having a code, rather than having to specify a generic identifier and then have a controlled vocabulary for each a 'party code' identifier type.

Although, in our implementation we've attached this on a subclass of Organisation called Party, so it still conforms.

[akuckartz]

@jpmckinney Official short names are for example SPD or F.D.P. (the dots are part of this short name) but longer ones such as "Tierschutzallianz" also exist.

[jpmckinney]

FYI, perhaps an issue to raise with EU's Core Public Organisation Vocabulary working group.

[akuckartz]

The CPOV draft currently states this:

5.1.3. Property: identifier [0..n]
Many organisations are referred to by an acronym or some other identifier. For
example, the ECB for the European Central Bank, OLAF for the European Anti-Fraud
Office, and so on. These are formally recognised by the European Commission
which provides a list of such acronyms.

In the RDF release of the CPOV, this property is bound to org:identifier.

A footnote refers to http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/cybernews/abbreviations.htm

I will probably raise an issue for CPOV to suggest adding political parties. EDIT: Done, see https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/cpov/issue/extend-description-identifier

[jpmckinney]

ROLL UP

• Add guidance to use other_names for all/most names
• Add guidance to use identifiers for official abbreviations (e.g. "Registered Abbreviation" in Australia), with a scheme matching the issuer of abbreviations (e.g. "Australian Electoral Commission")