Code of Conduct creation

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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+# Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
+
+## Our Pledge
+
+In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to make participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
+
+## Our Standards
+
+Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment include:
+
+* Using welcoming and inclusive language
+* Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
+* Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
+* Focusing on what is best for the community
+* Showing empathy towards other community members
+
+Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
+
+* The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or advances
+* Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
+* Public or private harassment
+* Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission
+* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting
+
+## Our Responsibilities
+
+Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.
+
+Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
+
+## Scope
+
+This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community. Examples of representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be further defined and clarified by project maintainers.
+
+## Enforcement
+
+Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by [contacting the project team](contact.md). All complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project team is obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident. Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately.
+
+Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good faith may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other members of the project's leadership.
+
+## Attribution
+
+This code of conduct has been derived from the excellent code of conduct of the [ATOM project](https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) which in turn is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage], version 1.4, available at [https://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4][version]
+
+[homepage]: https://contributor-covenant.org
+[version]: https://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/

README.md

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 IDPO’s primary goal is to harmonize vocabulary across experimental and computational studies, enabling consistent annotation of IDP-related data and supporting integration and interoperability across biomedical and structural biology resources. By standardizing terms, IDPO facilitates data sharing, knowledge discovery, and collaboration within the protein disorder research community. IDPO is used by the [DisProt database](https://disprot.org/) to provide ontology-driven, standardized annotation of intrinsically disordered proteins and regions, improving data consistency and enabling richer cross-database integration.
 
-IDPO is maintained by the [IDP Community](https://elixir-europe.org/communities/intrinsically-disordered-proteins) and supported by the [ELIXIR Infrastructure](https://elixir-europe.org/).
+IDPO is maintained by the [IDP Community](https://elixir-europe.org/communities/intrinsically-disordered-proteins) and supported by the [ELIXIR Infrastructure](https://elixir-europe.org/) (project: [Advancing structural and functional ontologies of disordered proteins](https://elixir-europe.org/how-we-work/scientific-programme/commissioned-services/science/cmr/ontologies)). It has also received funding from the European Union (HORIZON-MSCA-SE project IDPfun2) [no. 101182949].
 
-
-More information can be found at http://obofoundry.org/ontology/idpo
+More information can be found at the [DisProt Ontology Page](https://disprot.org/ontology).
 
 ## Versions
 
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 The latest version of the ontology can always be found at:
 
 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/idpo.owl
+(Note: this PURL will resolve once the request has been approved by the OBO Foundry.)
 
 
 ### Editors' version
 
 Editors of this ontology should use the edit version, [src/ontology/idpo-edit.owl](src/ontology/idpo-edit.owl)
 
+
+## Contact
+
+The community is invited to contribute requesting new terms/classes, addressing tickets and reporting issues on the [GitHub tracker](https://github.com/BioComputingUP/idpo/issues). More information is available in the [contributing file](CONTRIBUTING.md). Please review our [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) before participating.
+
+You can also contact us by email: idpo@idpcentral.org
+
+
 ## License
 
 This work is licensed under a
 [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License][cc-by].
 
-## Contact
-
-Please use this GitHub repository's [Issue tracker](https://github.com/BioComputingUP/idpo/issues) to request new terms/classes or report errors or specific concerns related to the ontology.
 
 ## Acknowledgements
 

contact.md

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+# CoC moderation team
+
+Primary contacts for Code of Conduct reports.
+
+Ximena Castro — Lead maintainer
+Email: ximena.castro@unipd.it Time zone: CET · Languages: EN, ES, IT
+
+If your concern involves any of the contacts above, email idpo@idpcentral.org or skip directly to the remaining moderator. A moderator named in a report will recuse themselves from handling it.