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Organization

A message term for doi:kernelMetadata.

A Party which is either a legal person such as a corporation or legal partnership (but not a human being); or a group of Individuals, or a group of organizations.

Comments

Organizations include all groupings of two or more parties, as well as legally defined, non-human parties.

Relationships
Parents	Party	An individual person, animal or organization capable of acting, or being perceived to act, as an agent.
Children	CorporateCreator	An Organization credited as a Creator of a Creation.
	CorporateSubsidiary	An Organization which is a subsidiary of another Organization.
	DivisionOrDepartment	An Organization which is a division or department of another Organization.
Belongs to AVS	doiavs:partyStructuralType	Allowed values for the primary type of a referent.

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