ODCS Roadmap
I am privileged to announce the availability of Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) v2.2.2 from Bitol, a common project of The Linux Foundation (LF AI & Data Foundation ) and AIDA User Group.
Every release results from teamwork, but I would like to give a special shout-out to Peter Flook, who worked hard on this release.
Version 2.2.2
In this release, which is in preparation for ODCS v3, you can find:
- A whole new and more reader-friendly documentation site at https://bitol-io.github.io/open-data-contract-standard/.
- Correction of a few issues with the JSON validator.
- Additional & improved examples.
- A space for vendors & third-party solutions using ODCS (very early stage).
The standard is available on GitHub at: https://github.com/bitol-io
Upcoming Version 3
ODCS v3, which should come out later this summer, and future versions will include enhancements in:
- Environment management (RFC #1, https://github.com/bitol-io/tsc/blob/main/rfcs/0001-servers.md).
- Enhanced support for data types (RFC #2, https://github.com/bitol-io/tsc/blob/main/rfcs/0002-types.md).
- Enhancement to the management of stakeholders (RFC #3, https://github.com/bitol-io/tsc/blob/main/rfcs/0003-replacement-of-stakeholders.md).
- Enhanced description of schema, better support for non-relational and unstructured data (RFC #4, https://github.com/bitol-io/tsc/edit/main/rfcs/0004-hierarchical-tables.md).
- Leaner and more infrastructure-independent properties (RFC #5, https://github.com/bitol-io/tsc/blob/main/rfcs/0005-drop-datasetName-field.md).
- Better communication channels (RFC #6, https://github.com/bitol-io/tsc/edit/main/rfcs/0006-support-channels.md).
- Enhanced support for data quality rules (RFC #7, https://github.com/bitol-io/tsc/blob/main/rfcs/0007-data-quality.md).
- Support for business rules (RFC #8, https://github.com/bitol-io/tsc/blob/main/rfcs/0008-business-rules-versioning-attribute-level.md).
- External references (RFC #9, https://github.com/bitol-io/tsc/edit/main/rfcs/0009-external-internal-reference.md).
- Open Data Product Standard (ODPS), which will be a new standard coming from Bitol describing data products (RFC #10, https://github.com/bitol-io/tsc/blob/main/rfcs/0010-odps.md).
- Extend lineage description in data contracts (RFC #11, https://github.com/bitol-io/tsc/blob/main/rfcs/0011-lineage.md).
Everybody is welcome to contribute.
I would like to salute the whole technical steering committee (TSC): Andrew Jones, Andy Petrella, Dieter Wachters, Dirk Van de Poel, Gene Stakhov, Georges Kopp, Atanas Iliev, Jean-Georges Perrin, Jochen Christ, Manuel Destouesse, Martin Meermeyer, Peter Flook, Sandro Pugliese, Simon Harrer, Todd Nemanich, and Tom Baeyens.
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