OMF’s ODD protocol — Draft 1

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Review and feedback

The Standards Working Group has completed the draft of its proposed first OMF standard, OMF’s ODD, and invites comments, questions, and suggestions. Please send feedback by Monday, November 30, 2026; earlier feedback is encouraged. The proposal has not been adopted as an OMF standard.

Join the GitHub Discussion, or email Volker Grimm or the OMF Administrative Coordinator. You may also request an in-person or virtual conversation; the working group will try to arrange individual or joint meetings to address questions.

2020 workshop outputs

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

These outputs record the initial documentation standards workshop. They were not an adopted standard or a released ODD review draft.

This is the workshop’s final output, finalized by Cheryl Porter on October 6, 2020, in commit 9da8932 with minor formatting changes applied later.

See the current documentation proposal for the proposal now under review.

These workshop notes explore documentation needed for others to understand a model and reproduce its results.

Goals for Documentation Standards

Documentation of a model, together with the provided model code, needs to facilitate the understanding of the intentions of the developer, and make the model easier to test, use, and link to other models. It should also describe assumptions made about phenomena being modeled and what information is used to create and test the model.

Documentation version history on The Open Modeling Foundation

OMF’s ODD protocol — Draft 1

Review and feedback

2020 workshop outputs

Goals for Documentation Standards