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![SSSOM banner](images/sssom-banner.png)

**SSSOM** is the Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings. It comprises three distinct components that are intended to be used together to facilitate the exchange of semantic mappings:
The Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM) is a community-driven standard designed to facilitate the exchange and integration of semantic entity mappings.
As data interoperability becomes increasingly crucial across various domains, SSSOM provides a standardized format to share mappings, enabling researchers and developers to more easily connect and utilize diverse datasets.
By establishing a common framework, SSSOM enhances the consistency, quality, and discoverability of mappings, thereby supporting more effective data integration and analysis.

1. a machine-readable and extensible vocabulary to describe metadata of mappings;
2. a data model to represent mappings and their associated metadata;
3. several file formats to represent sets of mappings on disk and on the network.
- **Standardization**: SSSOM provides a unified format for representing semantic, or ontological, mappings, making it easier for different systems and organizations to exchange mapping data consistently.
- **Interoperability**: By using SSSOM, data from diverse sources can be integrated more seamlessly, allowing for improved data analysis and research across various fields, including biology, healthcare, and information technology.

Beyond defining the standard itself, the **SSSOM Core Team** also aims to implement open and community-driven collaborative workflows designed to evolve the standard continuously to address changing requirements and mapping practices, and to provide reference tools and software libraries for working with the standard.
Beyond defining the standard itself, the **SSSOM Core Team** and the SSSOM community also develop reference tools and software libraries for working with the standard.

## SSSOM at a glance
## SSSOM at a glance: Model and Exchange Format

### Basic concepts
### Basic model

The [data model](spec-model.md) of SSSOM is centered around two fundamental concepts: mappings and mapping sets.

A **SSSOM mapping** is a statement that there is a correspondence of some sort between two semantic entities. It comprises two components:
A **SSSOM mapping** is a statement that there is a correspondence between two semantic entities. It comprises two components:

1. The **core mapping** (or **raw mapping**), which is a triple `<subject, predicate, object>` that represents the correspondence itself between a subject entity, for example a class in an ontology, and an object entity, for example an identifier in some database, via a semantic mapping predicate, for example `skos:exactMatch`.
2. **Metadata** that provide supplementary pieces of information about the core mapping. This notably includes information pertaining to the *provenance* of the statement (for example, who emitted the statement, in other words who decided that the subject and the object should be mapped) and its *justification* (why should the subject and the object be mapped).
2. **Metadata** that provide supplementary pieces of information about the core mapping. This notably includes information about the *provenance* of the statement (for example, who authored the statement), the *confidence* with which the mappings holds, and its *justification* (a reason that supports the fidelity of the mapping between the subject and the object, such as _expert review_, or _exact lexical matching_ on the entities' primary names).

A **SSSOM mapping set** is a collection of SSSOM mappings, with its own metadata.
A **SSSOM mapping set** is a collection of SSSOM mappings. Mapping sets can also be associated with metadata, such as license statements, or a description.

### The SSSOM/TSV format

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**Related software**

- [SSSOM Toolkit](https://mapping-commons.github.io/sssom-py/) (reference implementation of the standard, in Python)
- [sssom-py](https://mapping-commons.github.io/sssom-py/) (reference implementation of the standard, a toolkit and API for processing mappings, written in Python)
- [SSSOM-Java](https://incenp.org/dvlpt/sssom-java/) (an implementation of the SSSOM standard for the Java language)

## The SSSOM Core Team

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You can also reach us in the [OBO Foundry Slack](https://obo-communitygroup.slack.com/archives/C01DP18L5GW), in the `#sssom` channel.

### Steering committee

The Steering committee is a self-appointed group of SSSOM contributors, whose aim is to drive the evolution of the standard and coordinate community contributions.

* [Nicolas Matentzoglu](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7356-1779) (Semanticly, Independent Consultant; [@matentzn](https://github.com/matentzn))
* [Damien Goutte-Gattat](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6095-8718) (Flybase)
* [Harshad Hegde](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2411-565X) (LBNL)
* [Chris Mungall](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165) (LBNL)
* [Melissa Haendel](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9114-8737) (UNC)

### Documentation/specification editors

* [Nicolas Matentzoglu](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7356-1779) (Semanticly Ltd; [@matentzn](https://github.com/matentzn))
* [Chris Mungall](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165) (LBL)
* [Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9083-4599) (City, University of London)
* [John Graybeal](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6875-5360) (Stanford)
* [William Duncan](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9625-1899) (LBL)
* [Anita Caron](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6523-4866) (EMBL-EBI)
* [Charlie Hoyt](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4423-4370) (Harvard Medical School; [@cthoyt](https://github.com/cthoyt))
* [David Osumi-Sutherland](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7073-9172) (EMBL-EBI)
* [Simon Jupp](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0643-3144) (SciBite)
* [James McLaughlin](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8361-2795) (EMBL-EBI)
* [Emily Hartley](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5839-2535) (Critical Path Institute)
* [Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9083-4599) (City, University of London)
* [Harry Caufield](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5705-7831) (LBNL)
* [Henriette Harmse](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7251-9504) (EMBL-EBI)
* [James McLaughlin](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8361-2795) (EMBL-EBI)
* [John Graybeal](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6875-5360) (Independent Consultant)
* [Sierra Moxon](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8719-7760) (LBNL)
* [Simon Jupp](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0643-3144) (SciBite)
* [Thomas Liener](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3257-9937) (Independent Consultant)
* [Tiffany Callahan](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8169-9049) ([@callahantiff](https://github.com/callahantiff))
* [Charlie Hoyt](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4423-4370) (Harvard Medical School; [@cthoyt](https://github.com/cthoyt))
* [Thomas Liener](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3257-9937) (Pistoia Alliance)
* [Harshad Hegde](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2411-565X) (LBL)
* [William Duncan](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9625-1899) (University of Florida)

### Contributors

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* [Anne Thessen](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-3327)
* [Benjamin M. Gyori](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9439-5346)
* [Bill Baumgartner](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6717-5313)
* [Cassia Trojahn](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0096-2766)
* [Clement Jonquet](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2404-1582)
* [Christopher Chute](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-2545)
* [Chris T. Evelo](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5301-3142)
* [Damion Dooley](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8844-9165)
* [Davera Gabriel](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9041-4597)
* [Harold Solbrig](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44607574)
* [HyeongSik Kim](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3002-9838)
* [Ian Harrow](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0109-0522)
* [Ian Braun](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2389-9288)
* [James Malone](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1615-2899)
* [James Overton](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5139-5557)
* [James P. Balhoff](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8688-6599)
* [James Stevenson](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2568-6163)
* [Javier Millán Acosta](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4166-7093)
* [Jiao Dahzi](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5052-3836)
* [Joe Flack](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2906-7319)
* [Jooho Lee](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2955-3405)
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* [Sabrina Toro](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4142-7153)
* [Sebastian Koehler](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5316-1399)
* [Shahim Essaid](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2338-2550)
* [Sierra Moxon](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8719-7760)
* [Sophie Aubin](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4805-8220)
* [Sue Bello](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4606-0597)
* [Sujay Patil](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6142-1106)
* [Sven Hertling](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0333-5888)
* [Tim Putman](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4291-0737)
* [Vinicius de Souza](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4971-0439)

## Acknowledgements

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