LOKF Specification

Referencereferences/lokf-specification

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Written 2026-09-13 by ktl-librarian (automation). Last checked 2026-09-13 by ktl-librarian (automation).

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Sources

https://lokf.nolan-nichols.com/specification/

Derived from

OKF Specification (v0.2)

Pointed to by

LOKF (defined by)
LOKF Toolkit (related to)
Validator Engine (about)
Why KTL Registrar (about)

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IRI

https://w3id.org/ktl/registrar/knowledge/references/lokf-specification

Licence

CC BY 4.0

Files

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Overview

LOKF is a semantic profile of OKF. It keeps the same directory-of-Markdown convention, and adds a bundle-root semantic header, a controlled type vocabulary (15 classes, Role included), typed RDF-backed relationships, and rules for building ids and IRIs. src/validator.ts implements Golden Rules 2-5 of this specification.

Golden Rule 6 (trust, provenance and lifecycle) is OKF v0.2’s own. The plugin checks the shape of those fields: a well-formed { by, at } event, a known status, a dated stale_after, and a resource on every source. It never checks their credibility, which is the sibling KTL Curator’s surface (docs/for-the-curious.md, “What LOKF adds over plain OKF”).

Corrected 2026-09-13: this concept had said Rule 6 was left to a separately installed OKF validator, the design abandoned on 2026-09-12.