GC DFO Salmon Ontology

Formal ontology documentation

The complete formal ontology documentation is published at:

👉 https://w3id.org/gcdfo/salmon

This includes:

• Class hierarchies and logical axioms
• Object/data property definitions
• Imports and alignment structure
• Release ontology artifacts

Ontology source (TTL):

• dfo-salmon-ontology/docs/gcdfo.ttl

Contributor guidebook (user-first)

The user-first conventions guidebook is now integrated into this site.

It is based on the canonical docs/CONVENTIONS.md in the dfo-salmon-ontology repository.

• Conventions guidebook index
• Quick reference
• Schema vs data (TBox vs ABox)
• OWL classes
• OWL properties
• SKOS vocabularies
• Provenance and maintenance
• Class vs SKOS Decision Tree
• How to Request a New Ontology Term
• Full conventions (canonical source)