administrator

Classifiers Filled

Family

Thing Registry

Category

Society, people and institutions

Entry kind

thing

Plane

SOC

Domain

SOC.PER

Other names and narrower kinds

Ecclesiastical administrator, county administrator, Delegate President of the Construction Board of the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family, deputy chief of staff, excurrendo, Administrator of the Benedictine Abbey of Plankstetten, administrator of the Diocese of Reval, parish administrator, nonprofit administrator, library administrator, Sub-Delegate of the Government in Huesca, museum administrator

What it is Filled

A person who manages the affairs of an organisation, office, estate or territory, a title with many specific uses the registry aliases name, such as an ecclesiastical or apostolic administrator governing a diocese or institution temporarily, a county administrator managing local government, a deputy chief of staff, a priest serving a parish excurrendo, that is from another parish, and specific posts such as the delegate president of the Sagrada Familia construction board and the administrator of Plankstetten Abbey, which are individual offices rather than kinds; administrators also include estate administrators under probate law, insolvency administrators and system administrators in computing.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent explain administrator as a role, relay its meanings in church, government, law, business and computing from institutional and legal sources, describe the named roles and flag instance aliases, and distinguish administrators from executives, owners, executors and moderators.

Distinguishing features Filled

• Managerial role
• Many domains
• Often temporary or delegated
• Legal duties in some forms

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

• Treat an ecclesiastical administrator, an estate administrator and a system administrator as the same role.
• Give legal advice to someone administering an estate or an insolvency.
• Act with an administrator's authority without being appointed to it.
• Publish an administrator's personal contact details beyond their official ones.

Only with a human decision

• Any act that binds an estate, a company in administration or an institution.

May

• Report who holds an administrator role in a stated organization, office or diocese, with dates.
• Explain what a named kind of administrator is responsible for in that setting.

Moral aspects Filled

• Administrators hold power over other people's money, records or institutions.
• Confusing the roles can mislead people about who is accountable for a decision.

Who is affected

• Beneficiaries and creditors
• Members of the organization
• The administrator

Owners Filled

Steward

The body that makes the appointment, such as a court, a church authority or a council.

Master systems

• Official appointment and insolvency registers

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

• Q1162163 - registry parent class
• Q613354 - registry parent class

related

• director - in registry terms
• apostolic administrator
• system administrator
• executor

Sources Filled

1. Wikidata item Q16532929: administrator - identity and sense of the item
2. Wikipedia (de): Administrator (Rolle) - general description of the item

Open questions

• The registry aliases naming specific offices should be split off
• How should institutional sources be linked?
• Should system administrator be disambiguated?

Machine files

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q16532929/spec.json