FIBOBE_ — Publisher should be a kind of Party, which is not reflected in the model

The current definition of publisher states that a publisher is "a party that makes some information available to the world at large", which may include a blogger, a publication such as the Financial Times, a government that publishes information about economic indicators, or a data vendor such as Bloomberg.

The Business Dictionary's definition of publisher is "Individual or corporation responsible for the printing and distribution of digital or printed publications." See
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/publisher.html, which could be adapted for FIBO as " a party responsible for the printing and distribution of digital or printed publications", but the operative word, whether or not we revise the definition is "party".
The model does not reflect this, and isn't aligned with the stated definition.

Publisher should be a kind of Party, which is not reflected in the model

This issue affects section 9.2.7, Publishers. The EDMC review team agreed that the definition required adjustment and that the parent class for Publisher should be PartyInRole.

The actual resolution, including step-wise ontology modifications and changes to the specification are included in the attached MS Word resolution. The revised ontology and mdzip ancillary VOM model are also attached.