CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing to NORIA-O

We would love for you to contribute to NORIA-O and help make it even better than it is today!

Please contribute to this repository if any of the following is true:

• You have expertise in IT networks, monitoring systems or cybersecurity,
• You have expertise in data modeling, process modeling, vocabulary management or reasoning systems,
• You want to improve the performance and resilience of Information and Communications Technology (ICT),
• You want to help lower the burden of managing complex technical systems.

How to contribute

Prerequisites:

• Knowledge of Semantic Web technologies, notably:
  • Terse RDF Triple Language (Turtle),
  • Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS),
  • SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language.
• Familiarity with pull requests and issues.
• Familiarity with test design and techniques.
• Knowledge of Markdown for editing .md documents.

In particular, we seek the following types of contributions:

• Testing & Validating: Knowledge Graphs (KGs) like the one enabled by NORIA-O are highly relevant to federate information from heterogeneous sources and to get a comprehensive picture of complex network situations. Experience feedback with NORIA-O would be greatly appreciated in order to go beyond the initial development context.
• Improving & Extending: participate in making NORIA-O smoother and more linked, for example by adding definitions and matches to its controlled vocabulary, providing alignment with vocabularies from other application domains, adding model quality assessment automation, etc.

Communication

GitHub issues are the primary way for communicating about specific proposed changes to this project. Do not open issues for general support questions as we want to keep GitHub issues for bug reports and feature requests.

You may also contact the maintainers by e-mail for more specific purposes and questions.

In both contexts, please be kind and courteous. Language issues are often contentious and we'd like to keep discussion brief, civil and focused on what we're actually doing, not wandering off into too much imaginary stuff. Likewise any spamming, trolling, flaming, baiting or other attention-stealing behaviour is not welcome.