Terms relating to Industry

[philbarker]

In drafting some text for the Industry class for the handbook I've come to the conclusion that we need are few more terms / changes to some terms.

Here what I have sketched as a domain model by including Industry as an "Education to Work" class:

I have described the need for / advantage of using Industry as a class in the draft text in similar terms to what we have for Occupation, that is that it allows you to reference an Industry even if it doesn't have a NAICS/SIC/Other code; and it also allows links from Industry to be made.

So far so good.

We refer to Industry in several places; it was introduced because we needed it provide dimension points for some QData, but we know other things can be relevant to a specific Industry because we have the naics or industryType properties. Currently we only have one link to Industry, that is relevantDataSetFor.

As a starter, I think we should be able to link anything to industry that has a naics or industryType property.

When looking into this I noticed that the domains of naics industryType are different, which doesn't seem logical.

So I think we should :

• create a targetIndustry property
• make sure targetIndustry, naics and industryType have the same classes in their domains.
• look to see whether Industry is missing any other linkages.

[philbarker]

Related: look at whether Occupation should be in domain of hasProgressionLevel.

[jeannekitchens]

Industries have sectors, need to be able to identify sectors for a given Industry.

[jared-diener]

It would be helpful to add these as properties for ceterms:Industry.

• hasSpecialization
• requires
• recommends
• preparationFrom
• hasWorkforceDemand
• developmentProcess
• maintenanceProcess

There may be others, but this is a start.