Governance Model for Ontologies

Abstract This report proposes a governance model for managing the activities involving ontologies at EFSA. It contains recommendations about (a) the scoping of the ontology development activities at EFSA (purpose and subject matter), (b) external and internal consistency and interoperability, (c) maintenance and evolution, (d) access policies, (e) IT considerations (aligned with Deliverable D4), (f) outsourcing strategy, (g) training needs related to ontologies. The proposed model is aligned with the existing governance activities of EFSA, such as Rebuild DF. The document is complemented with the adopted governance model of other ontologies.