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.
Politics Ontology
METADATA-2098 Replacement RDF type for contestsElectionsIn
An organization with a formal role in local administration or government.
Council
A region which has a directly elected Mayor.
MayoralRegion
The type of Council, which determines the responsibilities that a Council has to the people living within its jurisdiction.
Council Type
An event which encapsulates the formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.
Election
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.
Political Party
A type of geographical bounded area defined specifically to cover political boundaries.
StatisticalGeography
An electoral area or division, which can be represented in a political institution.
Constituency
property to relate a political organisation, such as a Council, to the area of Statistical Geography which it governs.
governsGSS
property to relate a Council to the Type of Council it is - which defines which responsibilities it has.
is of council type
property to relate an Election to the things which are up for election.
electsTo
property to relate a political organisation, such as a Council, to an Election which it takes part in.
takes part in election
property to relate a political organisation, such as a Council, to previous elections it has been associated with.
previous elections
contestsElectionsIn
property to relate an agent, usually a political party or a person standing as an independent candidate, to a Place in which it contests elections, most commonly a country.