GAIA World Model

GAIA World Model is a modular, auditable world-model + ontology + action framework for responsible Earth digital twinning.

We treat world modeling like engineering: every dataset, ontology, and action is provenance-tracked, hashed, and attributable.

What GAIA is (and isn’t)

GAIA is:

• A reproducible integration spine for Earth-relevant ontologies, datasets, and tooling
• A provenance discipline: pinned upstream commits, file hashes, manifests, and storage policy
• An actions framework: observe → audit → plan → actuate (with explicit semantics and guardrails)

GAIA is not:

• A monolithic “one ontology to rule them all”
• A hidden-data model: we bias toward open, attributable sources
• A turnkey Earth simulator today (we’re building the scaffolding and verification first)

Repo layout

• gaia/cv/ — ‚Curation Vault (CV)’*: ingested sources + manifests + file-hash checklist
  • origins.csv pins upstream URLs + commit SHAs
  • manifests/*.njson records license evidence + counts + merkle roots
  • checklist.csv provides file-level hashes
  • large artifacts live in Git LFS (see docs/CV_STORAGE_POLICY.md)
• gaia/ontology/ — canonical entrypoints + imports index (authoritative integration map)
• gaia/reports/ – generated reports (e.g., Issue-001 entrypoint candidates)
• docs/ – architecture, policies, releases, integration notes
• scripts/ – validation/adapters scaffolding (evolves into repeatable pipelines)

Quickstart

This repo uses Git LFS. Without LFS, you’ll only get pointer files for large artifacts.

git clone https://github.com/SocioProphet/gaia-world-model.git
cd gaia-world-model
git lfs install
git lfs pull

How we work

1. Ingest third-party sources into the CV (pinned SHA, manifests, hashes)
2. Select canonical entrypoints per source (gaia/ontology/canonical/)
3. Validate graph closure and shapes (SHACL / constraints) 4) Define actions with explicit semantics and measurable outputs
4. Publish changes with release tags and reproducible reports

Licensing and attribution

• MIT license applies to original GAIA wrapper code and docs in this repo.
• Upstream content remains under upstream licenses, tracked in the CV.
• See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md and docs/ATTRIBUTION_POLICY.md.

Start here

• docs/ABOUT.md
• docs/GETTING_STARTED.md
• docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
• docs/RESPONSIBLE_USE.md
• docs/RELEASES.md

Issues: https://github.com/SocioProphet/gaia-world-model/issues

• docs/COMMONS_AND_STACK.md — GAIA in the global AI/knowledge commons + SocioProphet stack integration

Documentation

See docs/README.md for the full documentation index.