FAIRsharing record for: The Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies Foundry Principles

This FAIRsharing record describes: The OBO principles outline the minimal ontology metadata captured in the OBO registry and are intended as normative for OBO Foundry ontologies, and ontologies submitted for review will be evaluated according to them. We consider these to be generally good practice, and recommend they be considered even if there are no plans to submit an ontology for review by the Foundry. Where we use capitalized words such as “MUST”, and “SHOULD”, they will be interpreted according to RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels when the principles are applied during reviews of ontologies for inclusion in the Foundry. These OBO principles formally encode 20 operational rules for implementing automated validation checks, rendering at the OBO Dashboard, for objectively evaluating each ontology’s compliance with each principle.