Open Work Graph (OWG) is an open identity and reconciliation layer for intellectual works and related entities.
OWG focuses on durable identity, source mappings, provenance, reconciliation, stewardship, and interoperability. It is intended to make existing stewardship by libraries, publishers, archives, repositories, software systems, and individuals easier to discover, reconcile, reuse, and improve.
OWG is currently in design validation and documentation refinement. The project is exposing its model, assumptions, and governance direction for public review before implementation hardens.
Start here for the project framing, goals, and boundaries.
These documents describe OWG identity, its relationship to IFLA LRM, and how OWG reconciles source systems.
These documents describe namespace stewardship, authority, provenance, disagreement, and trust.
ADRs record durable design decisions and their rationale.
The source documents are maintained in the Open Work Graph repository.