/ro-terms

Repository for creating new terms for Research Obbjects

ro-terms

The purpose of this repository is to allow RO-crate users to create their own RO terms without having to create a new namespace, ontologies, etc.

This way, the RO-crate community can ellaborate vocabularies in a collaborative manner. Users may collaborate to a common vocabulary (common) or create their own terms.

Contribution guidelines

This repository works in a first-come, first-serve basis. To

  1. Fork this repository
  2. Add your own terms. Please make sure that each term has a label, definition and a domain and range if you are defining a property. If you create your own folder, please add a readme file stating the scope and maintainer of those tersm
  3. Open a pull request

A maintainer from ro-terms will assess and merge the changes as soon as possible

Why are terms collected in a CSV?

We want to quickly allow contributors to be able to understand and explore existing terms and their definitions. From the CSV we can easily create machine-readable versions of the vocabualry.