cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use Open Ontologies in your research, please cite the paper below."
title: "Open Ontologies"
abstract: >-
  An AI-native ontology engine: a Rust MCP server with tools for building,
  validating, querying, reasoning over, aligning, planning, and governing
  RDF/OWL ontologies, backed by an in-memory Oxigraph triple store and a
  three-layer Dynamics to Causal to Planner architecture.
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: Rovai
    given-names: Fabio
repository-code: "https://github.com/fabio-rovai/open-ontologies"
license: MIT
keywords:
  - knowledge-graph
  - ontology
  - rdf
  - owl
  - sparql
  - shacl
  - mcp
  - model-context-protocol
  - ontology-alignment
  - causal-inference

# Cite this paper when referencing the system.
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: "Open Ontologies: Tool-Augmented Ontology Engineering with Stable Matching Alignment"
  authors:
    - family-names: Rovai
      given-names: Fabio
  year: 2026
  month: 5
  identifiers:
    - type: other
      value: "arXiv:2605.09184"
      description: arXiv preprint
  doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2605.09184
  url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09184"

# Further reading: the causal-verification foundation of the Causal layer.
references:
  - type: article
    title: "CIVeX: Causal Intervention Verification for Language Agents"
    authors:
      - family-names: Rovai
        given-names: Fabio
    year: 2026
    month: 5
    identifiers:
      - type: other
        value: "arXiv:2605.09168"
        description: arXiv preprint
    doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2605.09168
    url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09168"