The Web Civics Ontology Namespace

The foundational namespace and semantic registry for Web Civics. Designed specifically for Human-Centric systems, providing the RDF vocabularies, SHACL shapes, and Context Markup Language (CML) architectures necessary to codify human rights instruments and the modalities of human agency into the Semantic Web.

The Core Philosophy: "Civics" vs. "Civic"

The architecture of this namespace is built on a precise distinction between two concepts:

Civics (The Activity): An active, generative verb. The grassroots activity of natural persons organizing, building, and asserting their rights and mutual agreements.
Civic (The Artifact): The resulting noun or adjective. Describes the infrastructure or frameworks that are often subsequently adopted, maintained, or managed by formal institutions after natural persons have established them.

Web-Civics is the digital manifestation of the generative activity. This namespace provides the semantic tooling for natural persons to engage in Web-Civics.

What is Published Here?

Normative Instruments: High-fidelity RDF/SHACL representations of international human rights instruments.
nquins & CML Integration: Advanced contextual data structures utilizing nquins alongside Context Markup Language (CML) to enable deep semantic mapping.
Human-Centric Architectures: Vocabularies prioritizing natural person agency over centralized institutional control.

Browse by institution

Directory indexes are first-class URLs (not 404s). Start here, then open an instrument HTML page or its RDF projections.

/institutions/ — all institutional collections
/institutions/un/ — United Nations instruments
/institutions/unesco/
/institutions/ilo/
/institutions/eu/
/institutions/au-fed-legislation/

Agents: llms.txt · catalog.json · Qualia WASM Lite MCP guide

Directory Index

URIs are conceptually structured by institutional provenance and normative function.

/core

/core/regional

Commonwealth Charter

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Raw:.n3 .ttl .jsonld

/core/tools

Cof

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Raw:.n3 .ttl .jsonld

/core/traces

Personhood Agency.Trace

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Raw:.n3 .ttl .jsonld

Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Consumers First—Establishment of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority) Act 2018

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Raw:.n3 .ttl .jsonld

/institutions/eu

General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679

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Raw:.n3 .ttl .jsonld

Technical Note on Machine Formats:
Resolving canonical namespace paths in a browser returns HTML documentation. Machine agents should use the explicit static format URLs generated for each graph:

N3: Append `.n3` to the canonical route.
Turtle: Append `.ttl` to the canonical route.
JSON-LD: Append `.jsonld` to the canonical route.

A global catalog is also available at /catalog.json and /catalog.ttl.

The Core Philosophy: "Civics" vs. "Civic"

What is Published Here?

Browse by institution

Directory Index

/core

Agency

Agent Accountability

Capability Credentials

Cml

Humanitarian Ict

Jural

Jurisdiction

Modal Junctures

Permissive Commons

Policy

Selfhood

Sense

Social Permissive Commons

Tiering

Values

/core/concepts

Abolition Forced Labour Convention 1957 No 105

Api 1977

Apii 1977

Apiii 2005

Basic Principles And Guidelines Right Remedy And Reparation

Basic Principles Independence Judiciary

Basic Principles Role Lawyers

Basic Principles Treatment Prisoners

Basic Principles Use Force And Firearms Law Enforcement

Body Principles Protection All Persons Under Any Form Detention

Code Conduct Law Enforcement Officials

Convention Against Discrimination Education

Convention Against Torture And Other Cruel Inhuman Or Degrading

Convention Consent Marriage Minimum Age Marriage And

Convention Elimination All Forms Discrimination Against Women

Convention Non Applicability Statutory Limitations War Crimes

Convention Prevention And Punishment Crime Genocide

Convention Reduction Statelessness

Convention Relating Status Refugees

Convention Relating Status Stateless Persons

Convention Rights Child

Convention Rights Persons Disabilities

Convention Suppression Traffic Persons And Exploitation

Declaration Basic Principles Justice Victims Crime And Abuse

Declaration Commitment Hivaids

Declaration Elimination All Forms Intolerance And Discrimination

Declaration Elimination Violence Against Women

Declaration Granting Independence Colonial Countries And Peoples

Declaration Human Rights Individuals Who Are Not Nationals

Declaration Protection All Persons Being Subjected Torture And

Declaration Protection All Persons Enforced Disappearance

Declaration Protection Women And Children Emergency And Armed

Declaration Race And Racial Prejudice

Declaration Right And Responsibility Individuals Groups And

Declaration Right Development

Declaration Right Peoples Peace

Declaration Rights Disabled Persons

Declaration Rights Mentally Retarded Persons

Declaration Rights Persons Belonging National Or Ethnic

Declaration Social Progress And Development

Declaration Use Scientific And Technological Progress Interests

Discrimination Employment And Occupation Convention 1958 No 111

Duty To Suppress Forced Labour

Employment Policy Convention 1964 No 122

Equal Remuneration Convention 1951 No 100

Forced Labour Convention 1930 No 29

Freedom Association And Protection Right Organize Convention

Gci 1949

Gcii 1949

Gciii 1949

Gciv 1949

General Assembly Resolution 1803 Xvii 14 December 1962 Permanent

Guidelines Action Children Criminal Justice System

Guidelines Role Prosecutors

Iccpr Non Derogable Overlay

Indigenous And Tribal Peoples Convention 1989 No 169

International Convention Against Recruitment Use Financing And

International Convention Elimination All Forms Racial

International Convention Protection All Persons Enforced