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.