LOF-P-002: Common format

Draft for ratification

Part of the founding draft of the LOF principles.

Summary

The ontology is released in OWL 2, with a stable primary release file.

Purpose

A common format lets member ontologies import one another and lets the same tools (Protégé, ROBOT, reasoners, triple stores) operate on all of them.

Recommendations and requirements

1. A release file lof-{id}.owl is published at the root of the ontology repository, serialized as RDF/XML or Turtle.
2. A base file lof-{id}-base.owl, containing only the ontology's own axioms, is also published.
3. Other serializations may be offered, but the OWL release is authoritative.

Implementation

Run make release VERSION=x.y.z in src/ontology/. The template Makefile produces both files with ROBOT.

Examples

https://w3id.org/lof/odp-001.owl (full) and https://w3id.org/lof/odp-001/odp-001-base.owl (base).

Criteria for review

Both release files exist, parse without error, and resolve through their persistent IRIs.

Automated check: CI parse and merge with ROBOT on every push.

Feedback and discussion

Propose changes to this principle by pull request against docs/principles/lof-p-002-format.md, or open a thread in Discussions.

Discussion