Rules in the following order

• Top: /ontology

• Topic areas are lowercase with no punctuation or separation:

  • /supplychain

  • /foundation/meta

• Versioned IRI:

  • Release date after highest level topic area

  • Date format: YYYYMMDD

  • /supplychain/20210601

  • /foundation/20210601/meta

• File-name Upper Camel Case with no punctuation: AnnotationVocabulary

  • Uppercase first letter of each word, no separation

  • All acronyms are spelled out

  • Exceptions like RADAR, words appearing in the dictionary

• Class name Upper Camel Case:

  • Uppercase first letter of each word, no separation

  • All acronyms are spelled out

  • Exceptions like RADAR, words appearing in the dictionary

• Object property Lower Camel Case:

  • Lowercase first letter, uppercase each following word

  • All property names must be verb or verb phrase

  • hasParticipant

• Data properties and annotation names Lower Camel Case

  • Lowercase first letter, uppercase each following word

  • Verb phrase starting with has

  • hasTag

  • hasDateValue

• Annotation names

  • Lowercase first letter, uppercase each following word

  • usageNote

Examples

• /ontology/foundation/meta/AnnotationVocabulary/usageNote

• /ontology/supplychain/

• /ontology/