  Similar to managing software packages, managing the ontology life cycle
involves multiple complex workflows such as preparing releases, continuous
quality control checking, and dependency management. To manage these processes,
a diverse set of tools is required, from command line utilities to powerful
ontology engineering environments such as ROBOT. Particularly in the biomedical
domain, which has developed a set of highly diverse yet inter-dependent
ontologies, standardising release practices and metadata, and establishing
shared quality standards, are crucial to enable interoperability. The Ontology
Development Kit (ODK) provides a set of standardised, customisable, and
automatically executable workflows, and packages all required tooling in a
single Docker image. In this paper, we provide an overview of how the ODK
works, show how it is used in practice, and describe how we envision it driving
standardisation efforts in our community.
