Ontology

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This is about OD's use of the word ontology, for the generic use see Wikipedia:Ontology. In OD an ontology is a tree containing the whole organisational system, including current projects and workflow. The ontology is the first thing that needs to be defined by organisations working in accord with the manifesto. We are documenting the steps for defining an ontology in the set up a new organisational system procedure.

Merging ontologies

• A number of organisations merging to become a new organisation
• A number of individuals merging to form an organisation. The individuals use self organisation to define their respective ontologies then merge them

Organic Ontology

Our specific ontology consisting of Organic Design's work, knowledge and practices etc is the Organic Ontology, but this is still being developed internally and hasn't been updated on this site yet.