Actions Vocabulary

A disciplined extension to Common Core Ontologies for modeling intentional planning and execution.

Philosophy: Reuse CCO directly. Only add what CCO provably lacks — Charter (scope declarations) and inServiceOf (teleological relation).

Available Formats

OWL/XML (Canonical)

Industry-standard format, compatible with Protege and reasoning tools.

Download OWL/XML (Canonical)

Turtle (RDF)

Human-readable RDF format, perfect for version control and manual editing.

Download Turtle (RDF)

JSON-LD

Web applications, JavaScript, REST APIs.

Download JSON-LD

RDF/XML

Legacy RDF tools and broad compatibility.

Download RDF/XML

SHACL Shapes

Validation constraints and data quality rules for Action instances.

Download SHACL Shapes

JSON-LD Context

Context map for ontology-out JSON exports.

Download JSON-LD Context

JSON Schema

Structural validation for ontology-out JSON exports.

Download JSON Schema

Core Concepts

Three Directive ICE siblings (Charter is new, Plan and Objective are CCO):

Genuine Extensions

Using the Vocabulary

Import in Your Ontology

<owl:Ontology rdf:about="https://example.com/my-ontology">
  <owl:imports rdf:resource="https://clearhead.us/vocab/actions"/>
</owl:Ontology>

Load in Protege

File → Open from URL → https://clearhead.us/vocab/actions/actions-vocabulary.owl

Resources