User guide
Start with the quick start for the contribution workflow, or choose a task below.
Accounts and studies
- Account access: sign in, create an email account, or connect an ORCID iD.
- Communities and scope: join a community and select the vocabulary you work in.
- Studies: begin an activity, record a Position, and return to saved progress.
Contributions and review
- Adding a term: publish a term and choose a contribution action.
- Community review and revisions: vote, edit your definitions, compare candidates, and manage your public profile.
- AI-assisted suggestions: request and review a model draft before publication.
- Discussion: comment on recent terms or suggest a revision.
Finding and citing content
- Search and browse: find terms, definitions, and examples.
- Tags: classify content and manage collections.
- Provenance: inspect contribution history and attribution.
- Identifiers and citation: choose a term, definition, or revision link.
- Metadata access: download RDF or query a graph store.
Administration
Administration and stewardship lists the controls for community stewards, moderators, and site administrators.
Knowledge organization
The reference explains concepts, identifiers, SKOS, PROV-O, and curation for readers who use the published metadata.
Metadata models
MatCore metadata presents the Minimal and DFT elements from the preliminary 2025 MatCore paper and a labeled synthetic example.