Ontology

In OD an ontology is a tree containing the whole organisational system, including current projects and workflow. The ontology is the first thing that needs to be defined by organisations working in accord with the manifesto. We are documenting the steps for defining an ontology in the set up a new organisational system procedure.

In a wiki organisation the top level of the ontology is formed from the record types in the wiki, or if there are many types they may be grouped and occupy the top two or even more levels.

Each of the record type nodes in the ontology link to the portal for that type which is usually the types Category page, but with the category member links grouped into specific portlets and queries and offering other associated resources and tools such as creation or search options.

Each of the record nodes also contains useful child nodes containing the five most recently used records of its type and useful specific links, for example within the Organisation node one may find "log activity" and "view worklog".

Merging ontologies

• A number of organisations merging to become a new organisation
• A number of individuals merging to form an organisation. The individuals use self organisation to define their respective ontologies then merge them

See also

• Organic Ontology
• Web 3.0
• Wikipedia:Ontology