Valueflows

Protocolo Semántico y de Datos

Vocabulary for the distributed economic networks of the next economy, to coordinate the creation, distribution, and exchange of economic resources. Implements the REA (Resource, Event, Agent) accounting ontology with additions for recipes, offers/requests, ecological accounting, and distributed protocol compatibility. Designed to support coordination both inside and between organizations (enterprise not assumed), reciprocity with or without money (money not assumed), and ecological agents as part of the economic network

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Licencia CC0 / Public Domain (spec and vocabulary); implementations vary (hREA: Apache 2.0; Bonfire ValueFlows: AGPL-3.0)
Estado de Desarrollo 🟢 Activo
Detalle del Estado de Desarrollo Released (working towards stable v1.0 of core model; active development with multiple reference implementations; vocabulary presented in RDF, GraphQL, JSON-Schema, and UML formats)
Propietario ValueFlows community (open governance); key contributors include Lynn Foster, Bob Haugen (both REA practitioners since 1990s), elf Pavlik, Mikey Williams, Connor Turland; namespace URI: https://w3id.org/valueflows/ont/vf#
Órgano de Gobierno None (open community governance by the ValueFlows contributor community; W3C-adjacent but not on a formal W3C track)
País International
Año de Inicio 2014
Stack Implementation-dependent (vocabulary only — defines data model, not runtime); reference implementations: hREA (Rust/Holochain + JavaScript GraphQL); Bonfire (Elixir/Phoenix + ActivityPub); Basis Project (Rust, auto-generated from OWL file)
Financiamiento Community-driven; EU Reflow project funded Dyne's Valueflows development (including EU Digital Product Passport); NLnet funding for related projects
Última Investigación 15 ene 2026

Dominios de Caso de Uso

Ayuda Mutua e Intercambio Formación de Grupos y Gobernanza

Capacidades

Intercambio no monetario Administración transparente

Protocolo Semántico y de Datos Atributos

Orígenes Economic coordination / REA accounting (evolved from REA ontology through Sensorica's NRP software, Open Value Networks, FreedomCoop's OCP; addresses limitations of conventional debit/credit accounting by modeling real-world economic activity directly)
Base de Datos Implementation-dependent (hREA uses Holochain DHT; Bonfire uses PostgreSQL; vocabulary itself is storage-agnostic)
Lenguaje de Consulta SPARQL (for RDF implementations); GraphQL (primary API specification for implementations; hREA and Bonfire both expose ValueFlows GraphQL API enabling cross-project UI compatibility)
Formatos de Datos RDF (Turtle, JSON-LD; linked open data namespace at w3id.org) + GraphQL schemas + JSON-Schema reference; vocabulary supports both RDF-based and non-RDF-based usage
Edición Colaborativa en Vivo N/A (vocabulary defines economic data model; real-time coordination handled by implementations)
Edición de Texto Enriquecido N/A (vocabulary only)
Soporte Móvil N/A (vocabulary only; implementations may have mobile support)
Soporte Web N/A (vocabulary only; implementations like Bonfire and hREA provide web interfaces)
Aplicaciones Nativas N/A (vocabulary only)
Términos Free open vocabulary (CC0/Public Domain)
Fondos N/A (core vocabulary is volunteer-driven; implementations separately funded)
Basado En REA (Resource-Event-Agent) accounting model (William McCarthy, 1982); extensions for recipes, offers/requests (Intents), ecological accounting, process flows (IPO: Input-Process-Output chains), agreements/exchanges; ActivityPub federation via Bonfire (FEP proposals for Federated Marketplace, Federated Work Coordination, To-do's)
Compatibilidad con la Web Semántica Full RDF compliance (core design principle; linked open data namespace; Turtle and JSON-LD serialization; UML diagrams; designed to support both RDF-based and non-RDF-based use)
Madurez del Protocolo / Estandarización Community Standard (vocabulary specification developed by international community; W3C-adjacent but not formal W3C track)
Tipo de Vocabulario / Ontología Economic flows / Resource, Event, and Agent coordination; covers planning (Intents, Commitments, Proposals), observation (Economic Events, Economic Resources), recipes (RecipeProcess, RecipeFlow), agents (persons, organizations, ecological agents), processes (IPO chains), exchanges, and agreements
Patrón de Uso Embedded in other protocols and platforms (used by hREA on Holochain, Bonfire on ActivityPub/Fediverse, Dyne's Reflow/Interfacer for EU Digital Product Passport, Carbon Farm Network/NY Textile Lab for supply chains, Sensorica for open value networks, LearnDeep for fablab materials sharing, Basis Project for ecological production, Code A for climate accounting education, Weather Makers for ecosystem restoration planning)