Valueflows

Valueflows (VF) describes itself as "a vocabulary for the distributed economic networks of the next economy, to coordinate the creation, distribution, and exchange of economic resources."

That vocabulary is described in the form of an ontology.  You can get to that vocabulary made available in many different forms including:

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