Organizational Schema Philosophy
- EDCS uses Organizational Schema to arrange Classification and Attribute entries into sets based on similarity.
- The sets need not be disjoint.
- An EDCS Organizational Schema (EO) is the end result of a process of classification and consists of a set of EDCS Groups (EGs).
- No further organization is required among the EGs in an EO.
- The EGs may or may not form a hierarchy.
- When an EO has the property that each Classification entry in EDCS and each Attribute in EDCS is a member of at least one EG, the EO is called complete.
- All EOs in this International Standard shall be complete.
- The definition of Classifications and Attribute entries are not in any way affected by the groups with which they may be associated.
- Multiple Organizational Schemas may coexist.
- Since there is no definitive or single context on how entities can be arranged or organized, the EDCS supports �weak� organizational schemas which are intended solely to improve search for concepts relevant to the interests of a user.