Standard#

The Open Contracting Data Standard includes a technical specification made up of:

  • An extended JSON Schema that defines objects and fields for describing a contracting process

  • A set of codelists that define standard values for several fields

  • A set of rules for constructing identifiers for contracting processes and organizations

  • A set of rules for merging individual ‘releases’ into a consolidated ‘record’ of a contracting process

  • A set of rules for transforming between JSON and tabular serializations

  • An extension mechanism for describing additional fields

This section describes the processes for maintaining these assets. See the Normative and non-normative policy for details on which sections of the documentation are normative or not.

Documentation is written in Markdown syntax with recommonmark building on Commonmark.

History#

For the history of standard development, read:

The standard and ocds-extensions repositories contain all public discussions about standard development.