Welcome to The Open Group™ ArchiMate® User Community!
Welcome to The Open Group(TM) ArchiMate(R) User Community!
[ArchiMate,](https://www.opengroup.org/archimate) is an open and independent modeling language for enterprise architecture that is supported by tool vendors, consulting firms and hosted by [The Open Group](https://www.opengroup.org/). ArchiMate provides instruments to support enterprise architects in describing, analyzing, and visualizing the relationships among business domains in an unambiguous way.
This User Community is open to any practitioner who wants to discuss [The Open Group ArchiMate Specification](https://publications.opengroup.org/archimate-library/archimate-standards/c197). You are encouraged to upload models to the [ArchiMate Model Repository](https://community.opengroup.org/archimate-community-group/archimate-models) and link them to your posts. This can be to share applied knowledge and better illustrate your question and/or point of view.
This User Community is open to any practitioner who wants to discuss [The Open Group ArchiMate Specification](https://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/archimate3-doc/). You are encouraged to share models, examples and viewpoints by opening a new [issue](https://community.opengroup.org/archimate-user-community/home/-/issues). This can be to share applied knowledge and better illustrate your question and/or point of view.
Self-organized community workgroups can also be created to work on models which will be hosted into the [ArchiMate Model Repository](https://community.opengroup.org/archimate-user-community/models). Creation of such workgroup should first be announced in an [issue](https://community.opengroup.org/archimate-user-community/home/-/issues). Maintainers will then create the model space and provide access rights as needed.
## Guidelines
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All models shared here within must meet the following requirements:
1.**Models must be uploaded into the community repository using [The Open Group ArchiMate:registered: Model Exchange File Format](http://www.opengroup.org/xsd/archimate/)**
1.**Models must be uploaded using at least [The Open Group ArchiMate(R) Model Exchange File Format](http://www.opengroup.org/xsd/archimate/)**. You're also encouraged to post a PDF or image version of your model to make it easier for people to read it online.
1. Models must be shared using [OSI Apache 2.0 License](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0)
1. Contributors will anonymize any organizational information in models and discussions
1. No commercial advertising
1. You can reference material written on other websites or blogs, but make sure to: provide a link to the original page, provide the name of the original author and to quote only the relevant portion.
1. Models published by The Open Group are available through the [ArchiMate Library](https://publications.opengroup.org/archimate-library?limit=50). Commentary on these models does not grant access to The Open Group or to Member-only discussions. Comments may be considered and used on future updates to the model.
