Ontology Conventions Guidebook

This guidebook is the user-first conventions guide for contributors working in the GC DFO Salmon Ontology ecosystem.

Note

Source note: this guidebook is derived from the canonical docs/CONVENTIONS.md file in the dfo-salmon-ontology repository. If there is any mismatch, treat the canonical file as the source of truth.

Start here

• Quick reference

Core modeling guidance

• Schema vs data (TBox vs ABox)
• OWL classes
• OWL properties
• SKOS vocabularies
• Provenance and maintenance

Full single-page version

• Full conventions (canonical source)