ODCS
Open Data Contract Standard
Adopt
Foundation
BITOL / Linux Foundation
Since 2023
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Judgement: Adopt
Winning data-contract spec; YAML, multi-vendor.
YAML-based open standard for defining data contracts: schema, data quality, SLAs, terms of use, team ownership, servers. Think of it as OpenAPI, but for data.
Originated as PayPal's internal Data Contract Template (donated as ODCS 2.x). Starting with v3.0 the standard was generalised for any enterprise.
At a glance
- Category
- Contracts
- Governance
- BITOL / Linux Foundation
- Status
- v3.1 stable; v3.2 in progress
- First released
- 2023
Links
Related standards
Other standards in Contracts.
- AsyncAPI — AsyncAPI Specification
- GraphQL
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- gRPC — gRPC Remote Procedure Call
- OData — Open Data Protocol (v4)
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