Project Distribution

Projects are distributed as bundle archives, also referred to as dists (short for distributions) in the documentation and commands. The layout of files in a dist is largely the same as the format of a .owm directory on initial clone. In other words the bundle contains a set of serialized graphs, an index of those graphs, an optional set of non-RDF data that accompanies data sources stored amongst the graphs, and a configuration file which serves as a working owmeta configuration file and a place for metadata about the bundle. The archive file format can be allowed to vary, between producers and consumers of dists, but at least the tar.gz format should be supported by general-purpose clients.