{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "base": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/",
  "title": "SalishSee working vocabulary",
  "status": "working draft",
  "stewardship": "Grounded in the BKC / Octo ontology and ontology-commoning framework. Source meanings and unreviewed mapping proposals remain visible.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "SKOS reference",
      "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Valueflows vocabulary",
      "url": "https://www.valueflo.ws/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Simon Grant — ontology commoning process",
      "url": "https://wiki.simongrant.org/doku.php/d:2025-03-17"
    },
    {
      "title": "BKC ontology lineage",
      "url": "https://github.com/BioregionalKnowledgeCommons/Octo/blob/3ad6472557e4214d0c094409084d55110713650b/ontology/bkc-ontology.jsonld"
    }
  ],
  "terms": [
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "located-in",
      "label": "is located in",
      "definition": "The subject has a documented location within the named place. Qualify an office, project site or service area explicitly.",
      "example": "A documented office is located in a city.",
      "sourceTypes": [
        "Organization",
        "Project",
        "Location"
      ],
      "targetTypes": [
        "Location",
        "Bioregion"
      ],
      "related": "https://schema.org/location",
      "aliases": [
        "is based in",
        "located in"
      ],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/located-in"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "works-in",
      "label": "works in",
      "definition": "The source describes activity within a place; this does not specify an office or ownership.",
      "example": "A watershed group works in a named catchment.",
      "sourceTypes": [
        "Organization",
        "Project"
      ],
      "targetTypes": [
        "Location",
        "Bioregion"
      ],
      "related": "https://schema.org/areaServed",
      "aliases": [
        "works in"
      ],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/works-in"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "part-of",
      "label": "is part of",
      "definition": "The subject is a constituent of the object in the scope stated by its source.",
      "example": "A project is part of a larger programme.",
      "related": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/isPartOf",
      "aliases": [
        "is part of"
      ],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/part-of"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "stewards",
      "label": "stewards",
      "definition": "A source records an ongoing responsibility of care. The relationship must name its scope; it does not establish land title.",
      "example": "A group stewards a restoration project under an identified agreement.",
      "sourceTypes": [
        "Organization"
      ],
      "targetTypes": [
        "Location",
        "Project"
      ],
      "related": "https://github.com/BioregionalKnowledgeCommons/Octo/blob/3ad6472557e4214d0c094409084d55110713650b/ontology/bkc-ontology.jsonld",
      "aliases": [
        "stewards"
      ],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/stewards"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "partners-with",
      "label": "partners with",
      "definition": "An explicit source describes collaboration between the subjects, in a stated project or period.",
      "example": "Two groups jointly run a documented workshop.",
      "sourceTypes": [
        "Organization",
        "Project"
      ],
      "targetTypes": [
        "Organization",
        "Project"
      ],
      "related": "https://github.com/BioregionalKnowledgeCommons/Octo/blob/3ad6472557e4214d0c094409084d55110713650b/ontology/bkc-ontology.jsonld",
      "aliases": [
        "partners with"
      ],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/partners-with"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "funds",
      "label": "funds",
      "definition": "A source records a financing relationship, retaining the mechanism, amount and period when available.",
      "example": "A named grant supports an identified project.",
      "sourceTypes": [
        "Organization",
        "Project"
      ],
      "targetTypes": [
        "Organization",
        "Project"
      ],
      "related": "https://schema.org/funder",
      "aliases": [
        "funds"
      ],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/funds"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "uses",
      "label": "uses",
      "definition": "The subject explicitly applies a named practice or resource.",
      "example": "A project uses a documented composting practice.",
      "sourceTypes": [
        "Organization",
        "Project",
        "Practice"
      ],
      "targetTypes": [
        "Practice",
        "Concept",
        "Document"
      ],
      "related": "https://github.com/BioregionalKnowledgeCommons/Octo/blob/3ad6472557e4214d0c094409084d55110713650b/ontology/bkc-ontology.jsonld",
      "aliases": [
        "uses",
        "applies"
      ],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/uses"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "about",
      "label": "is about",
      "definition": "A document, question or evidence record addresses the object. Aboutness is not a claim that every statement is true.",
      "example": "A monitoring report is about a creek.",
      "sourceTypes": [
        "Document",
        "Evidence",
        "Question",
        "Practice"
      ],
      "related": "https://schema.org/about",
      "aliases": [
        "is about",
        "is a question about",
        "is evidence about"
      ],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/about"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "supports",
      "label": "supports",
      "definition": "Evidence supports an assertion within the scope and assessment recorded; it does not automatically prove it.",
      "example": "A reported count supports a bounded observation claim.",
      "sourceTypes": [
        "Evidence",
        "Document"
      ],
      "targetTypes": [
        "Concept",
        "Evidence",
        "Question",
        "Practice"
      ],
      "related": "http://purl.org/spar/cito/supports",
      "aliases": [
        "supports"
      ],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/supports"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "challenges",
      "label": "challenges",
      "definition": "A source gives a reason to reconsider an assertion; retain the reason and scope of disagreement.",
      "example": "A later survey challenges an earlier population estimate.",
      "sourceTypes": [
        "Evidence",
        "Document",
        "Question"
      ],
      "related": "http://purl.org/spar/cito/disputes",
      "aliases": [
        "challenges",
        "complicates"
      ],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/challenges"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "reference",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "references",
      "label": "references",
      "definition": "A public page explicitly links to another page. A link alone does not assert collaboration or agreement.",
      "example": "A wiki page links to the Valueflows specification.",
      "related": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/references",
      "aliases": [
        "references",
        "links to"
      ],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/references"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "similarity",
      "selectable": false,
      "key": "similar-to",
      "label": "has similar themes to",
      "definition": "A computation found textual similarity. Its model, input version and score belong with the connection.",
      "example": "Two descriptions are near each other in embedding space.",
      "related": "http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#related",
      "aliases": [],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/similar-to"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "related-to",
      "label": "relates to",
      "definition": "A scoped connection whose more precise meaning remains to be explained in the assertion context.",
      "example": "A workshop question relates to a local practice.",
      "related": "http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#related",
      "aliases": [
        "relates to",
        "related to"
      ],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/related-to"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "informs",
      "label": "informs",
      "definition": "The source identifies knowledge that shaped another practice, question or decision.",
      "example": "A field report informs a revised restoration plan.",
      "related": "https://github.com/BioregionalKnowledgeCommons/Octo/blob/3ad6472557e4214d0c094409084d55110713650b/ontology/bkc-ontology.jsonld",
      "aliases": [
        "informs"
      ],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/informs"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": false,
      "key": "placed-in",
      "label": "is placed in",
      "definition": "The Atlas reads a commons record as belonging on a Commodity-wheel category. The category is Mark D. Whitaker’s; the placement is a claim by its named claimant, with its reasoning and any endorsements.",
      "example": "A composting education centre is placed in category 15, Fertilizers.",
      "related": "https://schema.org/category",
      "aliases": [],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/placed-in"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": false,
      "key": "waste-to-input",
      "label": "has a waste that becomes an input to",
      "definition": "A waste or output in one Commodity-wheel category is used as an input in another, as a cited record shows. Whitaker’s third regional question asks about exactly this; each link is the Atlas’s claim, with its evidence.",
      "example": "Organic waste (category 5) becomes compost, an input to fertilizers (category 15).",
      "related": "https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Commodity_Ecology",
      "aliases": [],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/waste-to-input"
    },
    {
      "status": "current",
      "kind": "relation",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": false,
      "key": "grouped-in",
      "label": "is grouped in",
      "definition": "A Commodity-wheel category has its home in a family of the Atlas’s grouping. Whitaker published a flat, numbered list; the families are the Atlas’s, not his. A category may also be shown under other families.",
      "example": "Category 15, Fertilizers, is grouped in the Farming and soil family.",
      "related": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/isPartOf",
      "aliases": [],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/grouped-in"
    },
    {
      "status": "proposed",
      "kind": "concept",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "commitment",
      "label": "Commitment",
      "definition": "A proposed model of an offer accepted by identified parties with conditions, units and scope. A simulation creates no real obligation.",
      "example": "A fictional workshop participant agrees to deliver ten seedlings.",
      "related": "https://w3id.org/valueflows/ont/vf#Commitment",
      "aliases": [],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/commitment"
    },
    {
      "status": "proposed",
      "kind": "concept",
      "layer": "assertion",
      "selectable": true,
      "key": "field-report",
      "label": "Field report",
      "definition": "An account of what was observed or done, with author, time, source and review state. Reporting fulfillment is distinct from its review.",
      "example": "An illustrative planting report records seedlings planted and an unmet transport need.",
      "related": "https://github.com/BioregionalKnowledgeCommons/Octo/blob/3ad6472557e4214d0c094409084d55110713650b/ontology/bkc-ontology.jsonld",
      "aliases": [],
      "id": "https://salishsee.life/vocabulary/field-report"
    }
  ]
}