A specification for shared indefinitely evolving namespaces, ontologies and languages that nurture diversity of dialects by enticing contributions from the native speakers of each domain of expertise in an organisation.

Lexicon is intended to serve as a foundation for ontology led development, semantic reactive programming and software gardening.

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• Formal grammar specification
• SKOS (or other standard) serialisation
• CRDT Lexicon
• Composable lexicons
  • @ https://some.remote.lexicon
  • @ local.lexicon
• Default values
  • Literals
  • By reference
• Notes/comments
• Own children override inherited children?
  • Overrides instead of /in addition to synonyms?
• Paste
  • Multiple roots (leading up to composable lexicons)
  • Branches as self-sufficient lexicons

• Search
  • Time limited to allow results to include inherited nodes (breadth first traversal, of course)
  • All inheritors of this lemma
  • All synonyms
  • More complex conditions