Ontology Standardization Guidelines
Social
| SOCIAL External axioms #1443 & #1991 | possible new “what to do with terms” principle (can be p14) |
Communication
COMMUNICATION Ontology subsets documentation #466 COMMUNICATION Referring to taxa not in NCBITaxon #434 COMMUNICATION Document how to add logo #72 COMMUNICATION Short ontology descriptions #1968 COMMUNICATION Documentation for license #1840
Content
CONTENT Discourage BFO shadow classes #1539 CONTENT? Ignoring NCIT (no issue, but has come up that NCIT is not well-formed enough to be a concern re: things like overlap) METADATA Term adoption #2330 (also #2324)
Technical
Not yet classified:
Every ontology SHOULD provide a base
Every ontology primary release MUST be consistent and coherent
Every ontology MUST be coherent when classified together with RO, BFO, and COB
Every ontology SHOULD be coherent when classified together with all its base-dependencies
METADATA Versioning term identifiers #1347 / METADATA Linking term to discussion on tracker #1097 METADATA Language tags #479 (also #325) METADATA Synonym types #2450 METADATA Ontology root terms annotation #2149 METADATA Publications metadata #1671 METADATA Ontology merging #1548 METADATA Exemplar classes #899 METADATA Ontology metadata requirements #1365 STANDARDIZATION? Standardized xref prefixes in ontologies #525 Proposals here: #482 (comment) METADATA Modeling metaclasses #2454 (thanks @cthoyt, that’s a good addition) METADATA Standardizing how imported ontologies are noted #424