The suggestions would be to make sure that answers to these questions are available as part of the README.md file of the repository, or a dedicated file GOVERNANCE.md
Q1: Context / Principles
Goals of the Infrastructure/Project/Research entity ?
What is the nature of the semantic artefacts and where and from whom do they come?
Is your group of semantic artefacts hosted by one or several semantic artefact catalogues? Are those catalogues part of your publication processes?
Q2: Metadata
Which information do you require to describe your semantic artefacts?
Which metadata standards do you use?
Q3: Quality
How do you assure the quality of your semantic artefacts?
What are the recommended good practices? Are you following guidelines or high level principles?
Do you enforce reuses and imports from other semantic artefacts?
How do you collect feedback and issues from the users?
Q4: Access
Do you have terms and conditions for your semantic artefacts and who is responsible? How are they licensed?
Do you have machine accessible endpoints available? Other services to share/support the ontologies?
How do you communicate with semantic artefact users and get them notified?
How do you ensure the sustainability of your semantic artefacts? (financially speaking but not only)
Q5: Lifecycle
How do you deal with the maintenance? Describe the processes to add new terms (method, periodicity and policy)?
How do you deal with retirement or obsolescence?
How do you manage the versioning?
Do you manage different languages (for labels)?
Q6: Stakeholders and decisions
Can you list the stakeholders involved in each of these governance aspects? (developper, curator, board, experts, committee…)?
How are you taking decisions for each of the governance workflow steps?
The following questions are taken from one of the slides of the FAIR-IMPACT's Semantic Artefact Governance Workshop
The suggestions would be to make sure that answers to these questions are available as part of the
README.md
file of the repository, or a dedicated fileGOVERNANCE.md
Q1: Context / Principles
Q2: Metadata
Q3: Quality
Q4: Access
Q5: Lifecycle
Q6: Stakeholders and decisions