@prefix dcterms: . @prefix skos: . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The coordinate axis ordering each recurring economic activity and assigning it a position within the cycle." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Activity Axis" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The full ordered sequence of actions an Economic System performs in producing a product, and the master construct of the Locus Model. Every system must procure inputs, produce its product, exchange it, and manage the proceeds in anticipation of repeating the cycle. Those four phases divide into twelve divisions using a pre-, central-, and post- framework, and the subdivision repeats to thirty-six. Because the proceeds of one cycle fund the procurement that begins the next, the cycle is self-initiating — which is what qualifies an economy as a living system rather than a set of transactions. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Activity Cycle" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A product that fulfills an activity within another system’s Activity Cycle." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Activity Product" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The intermediary supplying a networking function without taking possession." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Agent Intermediary" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The two classes of activity available to a work locus, distinguishing activity-product from resource-product orientation." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "AP Work Locus Activities / RP Work Locus Activities" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A product line not represented by the firm’s Summary Barcode." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Auxiliary Product Line" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "An ordered arrangement of loci that records and communicates the functional position of an economic entity. Where a single locus states one functional fact, a barcode states an entire functional situation: the entity, what it produces, who consumes it, and how it is consumed downstream. The name is deliberate — like a retail barcode, it is a compact machine-readable identifier that resolves to a complete description." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Barcode" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The intersection of a section and a level, containing a locus and any markers." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Barcode Field" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A horizontal cross-section of a barcode; each describes a different class of economic entity." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Barcode Level" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "An identifying tag adding interpretive information to a locus within a field." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Barcode Marker" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A vertical cross-section of the Enterprise Barcode; each characterizes a different economic agent." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Barcode Section" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The paired principle that the functional order is fixed while the actors, technologies, and outputs occupying it vary without limit." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Bounded Order / Unbounded Fill" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The Activity Cycle of the system responsible for producing that system’s own product." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Central Department Cycle" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "An economic agent using the enterprise’s product jointly with the customer." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Co-Customer" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A resource whose constituent parts belong to more than one category." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Combination Resource" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "Activities positioned diametrically across the cycle share properties through matched relative position." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Complementary Relationship" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A resource requiring further refinement, incorporation, or combination before use." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Constituent Resource" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The locus describing the function of a constituent resource, typically paired with a Final Resource Locus." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Constituent Resource Locus (CRL)" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A resource that changes category as a consequence of incorporation into another." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Cross-Category Resource" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The economic agent consuming the enterprise’s product as part of its own operations." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Customer" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The economic agent consuming the customer’s product as part of its own operations." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Customer of Customer" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A Work Group situated at the Central Department Cycle of an Economic System." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Department" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The barcode level identifying the department-level Work Group where the product is ultimately used." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Department Locus" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The role filled by information: carrying both the instruction to act and the specification of how, when, and where." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Direction Role" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The syntactic category recognizing that a subject resource can be what separates different methods of performing the same activity." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Distinguishing Resource" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The notation representing a range of admissible values for an activity or resource." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Diversified (Div)" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The twelve-part granularity of the Activity Cycle." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Division" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The practice of charting an economic system by its functional coordinates so that the whole can be seen, compared, and managed. It is the deliberate parallel to geographic and temporal charting: maps made space addressable, calendars made time addressable, and functional coordinates make economic position addressable." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Economic Cartography" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The resource dimension of the Locus Model — the branch of systems economics dealing with the form and structure of Economic Systems, the relationships between those structures, and the supporting elements that enable economic activity. Where physiology asks what a system does, morphology asks what it is made of. The analogy to biology is explicit and load-bearing: an economy has an anatomy. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Economic Morphology" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The activity dimension of the Locus Model — the branch of systems economics dealing with the actions a system performs to produce its product. Every system, at the broadest level, procures, produces, exchanges, and manages. Those four activities strung in sequence constitute the Activity Cycle. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Economic Physiology" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The abstracted representation of a generalized, product-producing economic agent — applicable without modification to a business, a government, an organization, a department, or an individual. Scale-invariance is the point: the same construct describes a multinational and a single job, which is what allows systems to nest inside systems and the model to run recursively." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Economic System" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The functional counterpart to the spatial twin supplied by GIS and the temporal twin supplied by the calendar." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Economic Twin" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The economic agent whose product line is the subject of a given Enterprise Barcode." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Enterprise" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The twenty-locus barcode capturing a company’s functional role in the economy, describing one product line together with every Economic System connected to it. It is organized into sections — Enterprise, Intermediary, Customer, Co-Customer, Customer of Customer — crossed by levels running from agent down to constituent resource. It is the model’s principal commercial artifact. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Enterprise Barcode" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The locus occupying the enterprise level of the Enterprise Barcode." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Enterprise Locus" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A finished resource requiring no further modification, ready to serve as a subject resource." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Final Resource" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The locus describing the final resource into which a constituent resource is incorporated." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Final Resource Locus (FRL)" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The role filled by money: funding the other resources." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Financial Capacity Role" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The applied coordinate values assigned to each business, job, and product in a functional information system." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "FIS Coordinates" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The three-part identifier of any economic part: what the job does, what it produces, and where it sits in the functional order of work. Once every part has an address, every part can be mirrored by a digital counterpart, and the whole can be assembled into a graph of the economy. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Functional Address" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "Inventor of the coordinate-based Locus Model and Functional Information System for classifying economic activity by function rather than conventional industry category." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Functional classification systems" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The formal coordinate framework used to analyze economic information by functional position rather than by industry category. Source: US 9,910,910 · US 10,019,509." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Functional Coordinate System" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The coordinate system that locates any economic activity or resource by the function it performs and its position in the order of work. The construct is deliberately parallel to latitude and longitude in physical space and to date and hour in time: it supplies the missing third reference frame, answering what where the other two answer where and when. Every data entity in a functional information system is tagged with functional coordinates, so that function can be used as an index — to relate attributes across entities and to measure functional proximity, exactly as geographic coordinates do for spatial data. Source: US 9,910,910 · US 10,019,509." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Functional Coordinates" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A system that augments economic and financial data with standardized functional references, rendering business, employment, product, and service data unified, searchable, and stable across time and geography. FIS is to economic data what GIS is to geographic data: an indexing layer that makes an otherwise incomparable body of records comparable along a single dimension. Source: US 8,990,268 · US 9,098,564 · US 9,361,358." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Functional Information System (FIS)" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The position an economic element occupies in functional space, determined by what it does rather than where or when it operates. Functional locations are computed rather than assigned, which is what distinguishes them from industry codes: two analysts following the same rules arrive at the same location. Source: US 11,657,026 · US 12,242,431." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Functional Location" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The measured distance between two functional locations. Because function is expressed as a coordinate rather than a label, entities in unrelated industries can be compared directly — the measure that a category-based taxonomy cannot produce at all." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Functional Proximity" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The retrieval method in which entities are found by functional coordinate rather than by keyword or code. A keyword search of a conventional classification returns only entries whose labels happen to contain the search term; a functional query returns the complete population occupying the specified functional position, whatever those entities call themselves." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Functional Query" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The n-dimensional space in which functional locations are computed, compared, and traversed. Representing the economy as a space rather than a hierarchy is what permits proximity, trajectory, and composition to be calculated at all. Source: US 12,242,431." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Functional Space" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The computed path an element traces through functional locations over time. Because functional coordinates are stable across eras, a trajectory is comparable over decades in a way that an industry-code history is not — reclassification does not corrupt the series. Source: US 11,151,096." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Functional Trajectory" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The accurate functional representations mirroring real-world resources and activities inside the model." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Functional Twins" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "Built the Syntax Stratified Indices, benchmark indices constructed on functional rather than conventional sector classification." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Index construction and portfolio classification" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A supporting cycle oriented toward producing the inputs the central cycle acts upon." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Input Resource Production Cycle" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The economic agent acting on the enterprise’s product before the customer receives it." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Intermediary" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The Enterprise Barcode fields describing how the enterprise’s product is consumed inside the customer’s own system." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Internal Operations Loci" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The locus recording the work group in which a labor resource is deployed." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Job Locus" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The coding practice of leaving an FRL blank while its paired CRL is filled." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Jumping" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The four-field barcode capturing a job’s functional role in the economy. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Labor Barcode" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The base unit of economic activity: a single pairing of an activity with the resources required to produce its output. Because the object of the activity determines which resources are needed and in what roles, a locus encodes a specific functional orientation toward a particular output — which is what fixes its position in economic space. Loci link to one another through the flows of products and services, and that linked, self-sustaining system of transformations is the living-systems structure the model describes. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Locus" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The coded functional references derived from the Production System Model and assigned to entities in the FIS database." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Locus Functional Markers" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The formal language of the model, in which activities function as verbs, resources as nouns, and a locus is a complete sentence describing real economic phenomena. The language has a lexicon of valid words, a syntax governing how they combine into work loci and resource loci, and a semantics derived from position in the model. Treating economic description as a language rather than a code list is what makes the classification generative: new economic situations are expressible without amending the standard. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Locus Language" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The framework that sets out how any system that makes a product is built and how it runs. It gives every job, business, industry, and sector an identity drawn from what it does and where it sits, and gives every product and resource an identity on the same terms. The claim is not that the economy changes but that the picture of it does: categories emerge bottom-up from the functional structure of the parts, by rule, rather than being drawn top-down before anyone looks. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Locus Model" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The comprehensive systems theory of all activities and resources used in an economy, from which the Locus Model is built. It is stated in two branches — the Locus Theory of Economic Systems, covering firms and their cycles, and the Locus Theory of People, covering individuals and laborers. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Locus Theory" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "Managing Director in M&A at PaineWebber, 1981–1990." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Mergers and acquisitions" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "Pre-, central-, and post- positions imply shared characteristics and comparable skill requirements." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Modifier Relationship" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The second half of the Activity Cycle, in which the product is exchanged and the proceeds are directed into the next cycle." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Money Sequence" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The classification approach in which an entity carries several simultaneous functional attributes rather than one exclusive industry code." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Multi-Attribute Classification" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The stable, invariant sequence of positions every ongoing economic system must fill, independent of geography, culture, technology, or era. Transport sits between procurement and storage the way noon sits between dawn and dusk: the order is a property of the activity, not of the setting. That invariance is what supplies a coordinate system with axes along which economic activity can be compared across centuries. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Natural Functional Order" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The role filled by people and equipment: transforming inputs into outputs by applying power and direction." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Operator Role" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "Activities falling near one another in the cycle share properties through sequential flow." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Order Relationship" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The co-customer situation in which both parties hold the same contractual relationship to the enterprise." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Parallel Customer" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The intermediary subsidizing or paying the enterprise, enabling customer access." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Payer Intermediary" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "Founded and built Royalty Pharma into the world's largest acquirer of pharmaceutical royalties, helping create the category as an investable asset class." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Pharmaceutical royalty finance" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The four-part granularity of the Activity Cycle." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Phase" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The role filled by energy: energizing the operator to perform." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Power Role" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "Led Cibus's application of production-system methodology to plant biology through the Rapid Trait Development System." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Precision gene editing / agricultural biotechnology" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The co-customer situation in which only one party holds a contractual relationship." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Primary/Secondary Customer" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A revenue-producing product of a firm, used strictly with reference to the Enterprise Barcode." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Product Line" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The process of dividing a company’s revenue into functionally distinct barcodes. Because a firm’s revenue rarely maps to a single functional position, product lining determines how many barcodes a company requires and which of them becomes its Summary Barcode." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Product Lining" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The first half of the Activity Cycle, in which resources are acquired and converted into a product." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Product Sequence" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The grouping of a CRL, an FRL, and a Work Group Locus describing one instance of product usage." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Product Tier" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The model identifying the parts and processes necessary to produce a product, comprising the activities and the resources of production." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Production System Model" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "Cibus's precision gene-editing platform for agricultural trait development, applying production-system methodology to plant biology." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Rapid Trait Development System (RTDS)" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "An Activity Cycle defined relative to a specific product, with production fixed at position 2.2.2." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Reoriented Activity Cycle" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The coordinate axis ordering resources by functional role, category, and stage of readiness." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Resource Axis" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "One of the six functional groupings into which every resource resolves." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Resource Category" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The sentence structure describing a resource performing a specific function." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Resource Locus" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A product eventually used as a subject resource by another system." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Resource Product" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The naming convention governing resource-product activities in the Standardized Activity Cycle." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "RP Verbs" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The role filled by space resources: supplying the location, environment, and structure in which activity occurs." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Space-Infrastructure Role" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The four-level granularity marking a resource’s proximity to readiness for use." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Stage" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "An Activity Cycle defined relative to the economy as a whole, producing fixed definitions for cross-entity classification." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Standardized Activity Cycle" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The index-construction methodology underlying the Syntax Stratified Indices, grouping securities by functional attribute rather than conventional sector classification." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Stratified Weighting" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "Resources used by performing a task directly; physically persistent, ready without transformation. People, space, equipment." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Structural Resources" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "Divisions descending from a common phase resemble one another by descent." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Subdivision Relationship" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A final resource, ready for use, contributing a specific functional role to production." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Subject Resource" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "A supporting cycle oriented toward producing the subject resources the central cycle deploys." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Subject Resource Production Cycle" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The specific functional contribution a subject resource makes in producing a product, specifying how several resources interact to convert inputs into outputs. There are five: space-infrastructure, operator, direction, financial capacity, and power. The roles are what make the resource taxonomy functional rather than descriptive — a resource is classified by what it does in production, not by what it is. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Subject Resource Role" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The sub-level granularity refining distinctions inside a stage." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Substage" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The Enterprise Barcode covering at least forty percent of a company’s revenue, standing for its principal economic function." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Summary Barcode" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The cycles producing the resources a Central Department Cycle consumes, as against the central cycle producing the system’s own product. There are two kinds — Subject Resource Production Cycles and Input Resource Production Cycles — and by convention seven instances, one for each resource category plus one for inputs. Each supporting cycle is an Economic System in its own right, with its own central cycle and its own seven supporting cycles beneath it." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Supporting Cycles" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "Resources consumed in enabling a structural resource to perform. Information, money, energy." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Supporting Resources" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The field designation for the study of economies as living systems built from repeating, ordered functional activities and the resources that staff them. It names the discipline; the Locus Model is the framework within it and Functional Coordinates the instrument it produces. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Systems Economics" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The logical data model on which a representation of a functional system is constructed. It is the machine-side counterpart to the Locus Language: where the language governs how a human states an economic sentence, the systems syntax governs how a database holds one. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:exactMatch ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Systems Syntax" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The marker recording what a Work Group acts upon, and the test for whether that Work Group is the last in the chain." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Terminal Case Marker (TCM)" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The property determining where a chain of product usage stops. A product can be traced from the enterprise through intermediaries, customers, and customers of customers, but the trace must terminate somewhere; terminality fixes that point at the customer’s Central Department Cycle. It is the construct that keeps the model’s recursive structure finite and computable. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Terminality" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The three-coordinate reference frame of time, space, and function. Time orders a system’s history, space locates its physical parts, and function defines the roles that keep it running. The first two are charted so completely that we no longer notice we are doing it; the third has never been charted at all. Supplying it is the purpose of the work. Source: part of the Locus LP patent family; see Patents." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "The Functional Triad" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The nine markers qualifying loci within a barcode: Terminal Case · Customer Type · Customer Relationship · Product Type · Product Line · Process · Intermediary Type · Relationship Type · Temporal Coordinate." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "The Marker Set" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The generalized systems theory of all activities and resources used in an economy, from which the Locus Model is built." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Theory of Economic Systems" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The single coordinate frame into which classification systems such as ISIC, HS, EBOPS, and ISCO are resolved." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Unified FIS Coordinate-Based Representation" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The intermediary taking inventory of the product and reselling it." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "With Inventory Intermediary" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "An Economic System operating at any level within an economic agent, typically below the department." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Work Group" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The Activity Cycle of a single Work Group; a Central Department Cycle is defined by a cluster of them." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Work Group Cycle" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:Concept ; skos:definition "The sentence structure in the Locus Language describing the function of an Economic System. It is the activity-side counterpart to the Resource Locus, and together the two form the model’s complete descriptive grammar." ; skos:inScheme ; skos:prefLabel "Work Locus" ; skos:topConceptOf . a skos:ConceptScheme ; dcterms:creator ; dcterms:title "Rory Riggs — concept scheme" ; skos:hasTopConcept , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .