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Architecture Decision Records

Standards adoption/adaptation/introduction decisions, in the precedence order described in docs/PROJECT_LIFECYCLE.md. Newer ADRs may extend or supersede earlier ones; read sequentially for the project's decision history, or jump to a specific one by topic below.

  • ADR-0001 — Adopt Established Standards Before Introducing New Conventions
  • ADR-0002 — Adopt Hybrid Repository and Diátaxis Documentation Patterns
  • ADR-0003 — Adapt ISO 11179 and Adopt DCMI Metadata
  • ADR-0004 — Adopt RDF/SKOS, Adapt RDFS, Reference OWL
  • ADR-0005 — Adopt SPDX License Metadata
  • ADR-0006 — Adapt ISO 8601 and Adopt BCP 14
  • ADR-0007 — Adopt Information Architecture for Crosswalk Artifacts
  • ADR-0008 — Select a Dual Repository License (CC BY 4.0 / MIT)
  • ADR-0009 — Adapt SSSOM for Mapping Assertions
  • ADR-0010 — Distinguish Technical and Philosophical Dimensions
  • ADR-0011 — Adapt ISO 1087, Justify Concept as Organizing Unit
  • ADR-0012 — Adapt DOI and Memento Protocol for Reference Stability
  • ADR-0013 — Extend Confidence Vocabulary with Intermediate Values
  • ADR-0014 — Fixed Numeric Projection for Confidence Export
  • ADR-0015 — Expand Source-Ontology Scope to Eight
  • ADR-0016 — License-Gated Reference Archive as a Pointer Registry
  • ADR-0017 — Exclude "Reality" as a Standalone Crosswalk Concept
  • ADR-0018 — Commit to Comprehensive Crosswalk-Concept Coverage, Staged via Minor Releases
  • ADR-0019 — Reinforce "Concept" Against Ontology-Alignment/Meta-Ontology Practitioner Usage
  • ADR-0020 — Define "Core" as XwkOnt's Base Module, Not a Domain-Tier Ontology
  • ADR-0021 — Core Placement Is Source-Classified, Existentially Quantified — Not Cross-Source Popularity
  • ADR-0022 — Reinforce the Eight-Source Scope Against Self-Classification
  • ADR-0023 — Machine-Readable Crosswalk Export — SSSOM/TSV as SSOT, Generated Turtle
  • ADR-0024 — LinkML-Schema-Validated Data as SSOT for Crosswalk Concepts; Markdown/TSV/TTL Generated