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Governance

How the suite is maintained

The Common Core Ontologies are developed in the open and released as versioned, consistency-checked artifacts. This page explains how the suite is looked after and how to contribute.

Released, not frozen

The suite is versioned and maintained. Each release is checked for logical consistency before it is published, so importers can rely on a stable, coherent baseline.

Open contribution

Proposals and issues are raised and discussed in the open source project that hosts the ontologies.

Consistency first

Changes are weighed against the whole suite, not one module in isolation.

Transparent history

Definitions and their revisions are tracked so the meaning of a term can be traced across releases.

Grounded in BFO

Every accepted term keeps its place under the Basic Formal Ontology category it refines.

Take part

The development of the ontologies happens in the open. Read the current release, then bring proposals to the project that maintains it.