]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. ProfessionalAssociation Professional society A collection of organizations. Each element of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvuB5Y5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ProfessionalOrganization</a> is a group consisting of professionally trained, white-collar workers as members. Usually, the members of a particular professional organization belong to a single profession (or a related group of professions). Examples: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV9ZHJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmericanMedicalAssociation</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVyUi5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmericanOsteopathyAssociation</a>. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_body professional organizations professional organisation professional organization professional association Professional societies professional associations professional organisations The AOA, an organization of osteopaths and medical professionals in related fields. AmericanOsteopathyAssociation American Osteopathy Association NationalAssociationOfSecuritiesDealers The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvmnkC5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NationalAssociationOfSecuritiesDealers</a> is a US organization of securities dealers, brokers, traders and certain investors that engages in various activities including operating the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwFssfpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NASDAQSecuritiesTradingSystem</a>, lobbying, and member support services. Its <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwP1X65wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">headquarters</a> is in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViCZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityOfChicagoIL</a>. National Association of Securities Dealers NationalAssociationOfRealtors National Association of Realtors American Medical Association AmericanMedicalAssociation The AMA, an organization of medical professionals. A professional organization, based in California, that promotes the development of motion picture arts and sciences by sponsoring awards, education, and research. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwMlokZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AcademyAward</a>. AcademyOfMotionPictureArtsAndSciences Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences A collection of organizations. Each element of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvuB5Y5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ProfessionalOrganization</a> is a group consisting of professionally trained, white-collar workers as members. Usually, the members of a particular professional organization belong to a single profession (or a related group of professions). Examples: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV9ZHJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmericanMedicalAssociation</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVyUi5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmericanOsteopathyAssociation</a>. Professional society ProfessionalAssociation A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> (q.v.). Moreover, each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a collection that is temporally stuff-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>) but physically-spatially object-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a>) -- i.e. object-like with respect to some physical-spatial part-whole predicate (e.g. some specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r8a2smPXcQdiEoJhcx65EiQ" class="cyc_term">properPhysicalDecompositions</a>). Consider the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a>. Further, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is temporally stuff-like: any one of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> of a given copy <code>COPY</code> of (say) "Moby Dick" is still a copy of "Moby Dick". (Most collections of tangible objects are temporally stuff-like in this way.) But <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is spatially object-like: if we take a scalpel and slice <code>COPY</code> into ten pieces, each piece is not a copy of "Moby Dick". So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>. ExistingObjectType type of object MiscellaneousOrganizationConstants-Organization-Topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rAmoSCGJbQdiSXZJvYiNhkQ" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rtGXkHpNaEdqAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. miscellaneous organization constants organization topic A collection of organizations. Each element of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvuB5Y5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ProfessionalOrganization</a> is a group consisting of professionally trained, white-collar workers as members. Usually, the members of a particular professional organization belong to a single profession (or a related group of professions). Examples: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV9ZHJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmericanMedicalAssociation</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVyUi5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmericanOsteopathyAssociation</a>. Professional society ProfessionalAssociation Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString The collection of all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvkr6f5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OrganizationOfPeopleOnly</a>s whose membership or ownership is distinguished by the fact that all such members or owners are professionals. For example, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWSxnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DoctorGroup</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvoYwuZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LawFirm</a> are both specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvuB5Y5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ProfessionalOrganization</a>. ProfessionalOrganization professional organization workers' organization WorkersOrganization A collection of organizations. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwKq2S5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WorkersOrganization</a> is a group consisting of workers as members and having some aspect of the workers's welfare as a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjo9pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">positiveVestedInterest</a>, e.g., wages and benefits, professional development, impact of legislation on those workers, etc. Important subsets of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwKq2S5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WorkersOrganization</a> are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWaAxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TradeUnion</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvuB5Y5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ProfessionalOrganization</a>. A collection of organizations. Each element of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvuB5Y5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ProfessionalOrganization</a> is a group consisting of professionally trained, white-collar workers as members. Usually, the members of a particular professional organization belong to a single profession (or a related group of professions). Examples: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV9ZHJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmericanMedicalAssociation</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVyUi5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmericanOsteopathyAssociation</a>. Professional society ProfessionalAssociation A collection of organizations. Each element of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvuB5Y5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ProfessionalOrganization</a> is a group consisting of professionally trained, white-collar workers as members. Usually, the members of a particular professional organization belong to a single profession (or a related group of professions). Examples: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV9ZHJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmericanMedicalAssociation</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVyUi5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AmericanOsteopathyAssociation</a>. Professional society ProfessionalAssociation