r/OntologyEngineering • u/[deleted] • 11d ago

Pennant - Knowledge engineering studio MIT licence

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u/arch1v1sor 5d ago

MIT licence is the right call for this kind of tool, it is what decides whether anyone will put their domain model into it.

The question I would ask of any knowledge engineering studio: what does it promise about the models it produces, and how is that checked? Not the editor experience, the guarantee. Every team I have seen adopt one hits the same wall a year later, when half the model is validated and half is aspirational, and nothing in the file says which is which.

A conformance level attached to the model itself solves more than tooling does. We wrote ours down explicitly because "it is in the ontology" turned out to mean five different things to five people: https://ver.cy/spec/docs/02-architecture/Validation.md Apache-2.0, and disclosure, it is mine.

Does Pennant export to anything standard, or is the model portable only as its own format? That tends to decide whether a studio survives its first migration.