Representing Procedural Knowledge: Examples and Use Cases

PM-KR Community Group,

Hello. With respect to representing procedural knowledge, I would like to share the following examples and use cases with the group.

Firstly, existing schemas for procedural knowledge (and recipes) include schema.org's:

* https://schema.org/HowTo
* https://schema.org/HowToSection
* https://schema.org/HowToStep
* https://schema.org/HowToDirection
* https://schema.org/HowToTip
* https://schema.org/Recipe

Secondly, existing formats for business processes and workflows include:

* BPMN ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Model_and_Notation )
* BPEL ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Execution_Language )
* XPDL ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPDL )

Thirdly, a use case for representing procedural knowledge involves enabling and advancing centralized, trusted services for providing procedural knowledge to people, organizations, AI agents, and multi-agent systems.

* https://www.openfn.org/
* https://www.theverge.com/news/785193/google-deepmind-gemini-ai-robotics-web-search


For discussion, are there any other examples or use cases for representing procedural knowledge to consider? Thank you.


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski

Received on Tuesday, 24 February 2026 16:11:33 UTC