For the purposes of authorship and copyright, the ontology is copyright 2024 Common Approach to Impact Measurement. The common approach ontology is being collaboratively developed over a long period of time. Individual contributors to the ontology are recorded in alphabetical order for the specific revisions that they worked on.
The Common Impact Data Standard is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license.
The ontology uses the HTTPS protocol for URI identifiers. HTTP requests to any ontology term will be forced to upgrade to HTTPS.
The ontology is available at https://ontology.commonapproach.org/cids, specific serializations or the ontology documentation can be retrieved through the appropriate extension or HTTP Content Negotiation.
The ontology uses simple version tracking using the appropriate OWL, Void
and DCAT versioning properties. owl:previousVersion triples are provided
for applications to track earlier versions.