Vocabulary index
Vocabularies
Open Controls
6 schemas · 128 definitions6 of 6
- opencontrolsusagelicensev1.schema.json
- usageLicenseStamp.schema.json
- dictionary.schema.jsonA dictionary of canonical headwords with their general definitions, classification axes, and surface-form variants. Where a glossary records what one authority means by a term, the dictionary records the term itself: its lemma, part of speech, general definition, and every form it appears under in real text (acronyms, abbreviations, plurals, tenses, misspellings).
- opencontrolslicensegrantv1.schema.jsonA PRIVATE, per-grantee license grant — the credential a licensee holds when a source separately licenses rights (e.g. a TDM, derivative, or distribution license) that the public usage-license verdict reports as restricted. This is the mirror image of the public OpenControls Usage License: the verdict says what the world may do; a grant says what one named grantee may ADDITIONALLY do. It is layered on the public verdict for that grantee only and can only OPEN rights for the holder — it never restricts further and never changes another party's verdict. A grant is authoritative only when explicitly provided and verified; it is never inferred. Held locally by the grantee; optionally registered with OpenControls as a verifiable record that confirms possession without exposing terms. Sibling vocabulary to opencontrolsusagelicensev1; reuses its rights keys and condition codes. Not legal advice.
- glossary.schema.jsonA framework-scoped glossary: the set of terms a specific authority (a regulation, standard, or framework) defines, with the sense each term carries inside that authority's text. The same term may appear in many glossaries with different senses; a glossary records what one authority means, not what a word means in general.
- thesaurus.schema.jsonA thesaurus of semantic relations between terms, expressed as SKOS-style links. Where the dictionary records what a term is and the glossary records what an authority means by it, the thesaurus records how terms relate to each other: broader, narrower, related, and exact-match concepts.