Status of the vocabulary

This documentation is for release 0.14. Change log can be found here.

This vocabulary is based on decades of work in academia and several implementations in the field. The mixed stability of the model reflects this history. The core model is fairly stable. However, there are many edge cases and possibly not-so-edge cases where the model will need to be adjusted for the reality in the field based on further experience. Also, this model represents something new, something that we want to be able to support the next economy, with all the unknowns that will bring.

So we see continuous improvements happening as the vocabulary is adopted by more people, through ongoing collaboration between the VF team and the adopters.

The core model adapted from academic work on REA includes:

• Resources, Events, Agents (REA)
• Commitments
• the classifications/specifications in the knowledge layer

Other consolidated parts of the vocabulary include:

• Agent model
• Core Input-Process-Output model
• Intents and Proposals
• Core Recipe model

Please refer to the status for each element in the source turtle file for details on relative stability of various elements of the vocabularity, based on implementations by user groups.