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+title: Ontology Standardization Guidelines
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+
+### Social
+
+SOCIAL External axioms #1443 & #1991 | possible new "what to do with terms" principle (can be p14)
+
+### Communication
+
+COMMUNICATION Ontology subsets documentation #466
+COMMUNICATION Referring to taxa not in NCBITaxon #434
+COMMUNICATION Document how to add logo #72
+COMMUNICATION Short ontology descriptions #1968
+COMMUNICATION Documentation for license #1840
+
+### Content
+
+CONTENT Discourage BFO shadow classes #1539
+CONTENT? Ignoring NCIT (no issue, but has come up that NCIT is not well-formed enough to be a concern re: things like overlap)
+METADATA Term adoption #2330 (also #2324)
+
+### Technical
+
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+Not yet classified:
+
+    Every ontology SHOULD provide a base
+    Every ontology primary release MUST be consistent and coherent
+    Every ontology MUST be coherent when classified together with RO, BFO, and COB
+    Every ontology SHOULD be coherent when classified together with all its base-dependencies
+
+METADATA Versioning term identifiers #1347 /
+METADATA Linking term to discussion on tracker #1097
+METADATA Language tags #479 (also #325)
+METADATA Synonym types #2450
+METADATA Ontology root terms annotation #2149
+METADATA Publications metadata #1671
+METADATA Ontology merging #1548
+METADATA Exemplar classes #899
+METADATA Ontology metadata requirements #1365
+STANDARDIZATION? Standardized xref prefixes in ontologies #525
+Proposals here: #482 (comment)
+METADATA Modeling metaclasses #2454 (thanks @cthoyt, that's a good addition)
+METADATA Standardizing how imported ontologies are noted #424