OBO Foundry Principles
From OBOFoundry
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Proposals for new principles
1. All Foundry terms should be defined using terms and relations drawn from other Foundry ontologies.
When the terms and relations needed to create definitions of Foundry terms do not already exist in the Foundry, they should be submitted for inclusion to the relevant ontology. In this way no useful term goes undefined, and we do not land up with definitions that are in terms that themselves are not defined (except for the upper level undefinables).
2. Single inheritance
3. Use of BFO
4. All terms should refer to types (or defined classes) which have instances.
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Identifiers
New page added with identifier recommendations: Identifiers
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Recommendations
Perhaps we should have recommendations, as weaker than principles
- Recommendation: Species specificity
- Recommendation: Naming
- Recommendation: Definitions
