Principle Review Process

Operations Committee

• Membership
• Logistics
• Policy Decisions

Editorial Working Group

• Review Process
• Review Criteria

Technical Working Group

• PURL Requests
• OBO PURL Configuration
• Ontology tools and resources

Outreach Working Group

OBO Foundry Organizational Roles

• Overview

This page describes the process for reviewing, updating, and creating OBO Foundry Principles.

• Discuss the principle on working group call
• Write up proposed revisions as a GitHub issue (not a pull request)
• Inform the Editorial WG via email that the ticket needs discussion (if it doesn’t happen automatically)
• Two-week commenting period on GitHub issue tracker
• Make any incremental improvements on the tracker
• When the Editorial WG agrees on a final version, discuss on an Operations Committee call or via the issue tracke
• Make a pull request
• Two-week commenting period on the pull request
• Upload final changes to OBO Foundry web site for public viewing.

The need for a new principle can arise when an existing principle tries to cover too much and requires splitting, or as new needs arise within the community.