Exchange Schema
150 data model standards at the exchange schema layer. Every one confirmed against its steward's own site.
| Standard | Steward | Domain | Access | Modernity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 360Giving Data Standard | 360Giving | Nonprofit | open | — |
| ABCD Schema (Access to Biological Collection Data) | TDWG | Biodiversity | open | — |
| ACORD Standards | ACORD | Insurance | licence | 37.2 Legacy |
| ATA Spec 2000 / iSpec 2200 | Airlines for America (A4A) | Aviation | spec sold | — |
| AnIML (Analytical Information Markup Language) | ASTM International | Laboratory | spec sold | 28.2 Legacy |
| B2MML | MESA International | Manufacturing | open | 46.5 Legacy |
| BCF (BIM Collaboration Format) | buildingSMART International | Construction | open | 56.7 Modernizing |
| BrAPI (Breeding API) | BrAPI Community | Agriculture | — | 71.4 Modernizing |
| CAMARA | Linux Foundation / GSMA | Telecom | open | — |
| CASE (Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange) | 1EdTech | Education | — | 56.8 Modernizing |
| CCSDS Orbit Data Messages (OEM / OMM / CDM) | CCSDS | Space | — | — |
| CDISC ODM-XML | CDISC | Life Sciences | — | 54.5 Modernizing |
| CML (Chemical Markup Language) | CML community | Chemistry | open | 59.0 Modernizing |
| COBie (Construction Operations Building Information Exchange) | buildingSMART / NIBS | Construction | — | — |
| CSAF (Common Security Advisory Framework) | OASIS | Security | open | — |
| CityJSON | Open Geospatial Consortium / TU Delft | Built Environment | open | 62.9 Modernizing |
| ClaimReview | schema.org / Duke Reporters' Lab | News | — | 75.0 Current |
| CloudEvents | CNCF | Cross Domain | open | 73.0 Current |
| DDEX | DDEX | Music | — | — |
| Da Vinci Project Implementation Guides | HL7 Da Vinci Project | Healthcare | licence | 27.1 Closed-era |
| EAD (Encoded Archival Description) | Society of American Archivists / LoC | Archives | — | 57.1 Modernizing |
| EARL (Evaluation and Report Language) | W3C | Accessibility | open | 61.7 Modernizing |
| ECDC TESSy | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control | Public Health | spec sold | — |
| EDXL (Emergency Data Exchange Language) / CAP | OASIS | Public Safety | open | 69.5 Modernizing |
| ESRS / CSRD XBRL taxonomy | EFRAG / European Commission | Sustainability | open | 55.6 Modernizing |
| EUDR (EU Deforestation Regulation) due diligence statements | European Commission | Forestry | open | — |
| FDX (Financial Data Exchange) | Financial Data Exchange | Finance | — | 58.0 Modernizing |
| FINREP / COREP (EBA reporting taxonomies) | European Banking Authority | Finance | — | — |
| FMS Standard (commercial vehicle fleet data) | FMS Standard Working Group / ACEA | Automotive | — | — |
| Factur-X / ZUGFeRD | FNFE-MPE / FeRD | E Invoicing | — | 45.5 Legacy |
| FpML (Financial products Markup Language) | ISDA | Finance | open | 58.0 Modernizing |
| GA4GH Data Models (Beacon, DRS, Passports) | Global Alliance for Genomics and Health | Life Sciences | — | 61.9 Modernizing |
| GBFS (General Bikeshare Feed Specification) | MobilityData | Mobility | open | 74.2 Current |
| GEDCOM and GEDCOM X | FamilySearch | Genealogy | open | 50.8 Modernizing |
| GFF3 / GTF | Sequence Ontology / community | Genomics | open | — |
| Gambling: OpenBet and IBIA integrity data | various — no dominant open standard | Gambling | — | — |
| GeoJSON | IETF (RFC 7946) | Geospatial | open | 72.0 Current |
| GeoPackage | Open Geospatial Consortium | Geospatial | open | 65.0 Modernizing |
| Global Privacy Control | GPC / W3C Community Group | Privacy | open | 74.6 Current |
| Green Button / ESPI | Green Button Alliance | Energy | — | 41.7 Legacy |
| HEDNA hotel electronic distribution standards | HEDNA | Hospitality | — | — |
| HL7 CDA / C-CDA | HL7 International | Healthcare | licence | — |
| HL7 FHIR | Health Level Seven International | Healthcare | open | 67.7 Modernizing |
| HL7 Version 2 | HL7 International | Healthcare | licence | 34.1 Legacy |
| IATA NDC | IATA | Travel | licence | 38.5 Legacy |
| IATI Standard | IATI / UNDP | Development | open | 64.8 Modernizing |
| ICAR standards (animal recording) | International Committee for Animal Recording | Animal Science | — | — |
| IEEE 1516 HLA / DIS | IEEE / SISO | Simulation | spec sold | — |
| IEEE 2030.5 (Smart Energy Profile) | IEEE | Energy | spec sold | — |
| IFRS Accounting Taxonomy | IFRS Foundation | Finance | — | — |
| IFRS S1 / S2 (ISSB) taxonomy | IFRS Foundation / ISSB | Sustainability | — | — |
| IHE Technical Frameworks and Profiles | IHE International | Healthcare | — | 46.8 Legacy |
| IODEF (RFC 7970) | IETF | Security | open | 60.2 Modernizing |
| IPC-2581 | IPC / IPC-2581 Consortium | Electronics | spec sold | — |
| IPTC NewsML-G2 and ninjs | International Press Telecommunications Council | News | — | 45.2 Legacy |
| IRS Form 990 e-file schema | US Internal Revenue Service | Nonprofit | — | — |
| ISO 8583 | ISO | Payments | spec sold | — |
| ISOBUS / ISO 11783 | AEF / ISO TC 23 SC 19 | Agriculture | spec sold | 42.0 Legacy |
| Inline XBRL (iXBRL) and ESEF | XBRL International / ESMA | Finance | — | — |
| JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite) | NISO | Scholarly | open | — |
| JSON Schema | OpenJS Foundation / IETF | Cross Domain | open | 76.9 Current |
| JSON Structure | JSON Structure community | Cross Domain | — | 68.7 Modernizing |
| JSON-LD | W3C | Cross Domain | open | 65.0 Modernizing |
| KML | Open Geospatial Consortium | Geospatial | open | 59.0 Modernizing |
| LEDES | LEDES Oversight Committee | Legal | open | 50.5 Modernizing |
| LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects) | ICOM-CIDOC | Cultural Heritage | — | — |
| MARC 21 | Library of Congress | Library | open | 62.0 Modernizing |
| MDS (Mobility Data Specification) | Open Mobility Foundation | Mobility | — | — |
| MEI (Music Encoding Initiative) | Music Encoding Initiative | Music | — | — |
| MISP core format | MISP Project / CIRCL | Security | — | — |
| MathML | W3C | Mathematics | open | 62.2 Modernizing |
| Model Context Protocol | Anthropic / MCP community | AI | open | 74.6 Current |
| MultiSpeak | NRECA | Energy | — | 40.9 Legacy |
| MusicXML | W3C Music Notation Community Group | Music | open | 48.1 Legacy |
| NAIC statutory financial statement blanks | National Association of Insurance Commissioners | Insurance | spec sold | — |
| NCPDP SCRIPT | NCPDP | Healthcare | — | — |
| NCPDP Telecommunication Standard | NCPDP | Healthcare | — | — |
| NIST Election Results Common Data Format (SP 1500-100) | NIST / EAC | Elections | — | 58.1 Modernizing |
| Nacha ACH file format | Nacha | Payments | open | — |
| OAGIS (Open Applications Group Integration Specification) | Open Applications Group | Enterprise | spec sold | 63.0 Modernizing |
| OASIS Electronic Court Filing (ECF) / LegalXML | OASIS LegalXML | Legal | open | 68.0 Modernizing |
| OCDS (Open Contracting Data Standard) | Open Contracting Partnership | Government | open | — |
| OCPP / OCPI | Open Charge Alliance / EVRoaming Foundation | Energy | — | — |
| OECD CRS and FATCA schemas | OECD / US IRS | Tax | — | — |
| OECD Pillar Two GloBE Information Return | OECD | Tax | — | — |
| OGC 3D Tiles | Open Geospatial Consortium / Cesium | Geospatial | open | — |
| OGC API - Features / Records / EDR | Open Geospatial Consortium | Geospatial | open | 84.0 Current |
| OPTIMADE | OPTIMADE Consortium | Materials | open | 70.4 Modernizing |
| OSV Schema | OpenSSF | Security | open | 74.2 Current |
| Odette and VDA automotive standards | Odette International / VDA | Automotive | — | 71.0 Modernizing |
| OneRoster | 1EdTech (formerly IMS Global) | Education | — | 44.1 Legacy |
| OpenADR | OpenADR Alliance | Energy | — | — |
| OpenAPI Initiative Overlay and Arazzo | OpenAPI Initiative / Linux Foundation | Api Specification | open | 77.4 Current |
| OpenC2 | OASIS | Security | open | 66.7 Modernizing |
| OpenDocument Format (ODF) | OASIS / ISO | Cross Domain | spec sold | 55.0 Modernizing |
| OpenMath | OpenMath Society | Mathematics | open | — |
| OpenRTB | IAB Tech Lab | Advertising | open | 78.0 Current |
| OpenTravel Specification | OpenTravel Alliance | Travel | open | 87.2 Current |
| PESC standards | Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council | Education | — | — |
| PIDX and CIDX | PIDX International / CIDX | Energy | — | — |
| Peppol BIS | OpenPeppol | Trade | — | — |
| PhenoPackets | GA4GH | Life Sciences | — | 68.8 Modernizing |
| Postal: UPU standards (S10 tracking, M-series) | Universal Postal Union | Postal | — | 43.1 Legacy |
| QTI (Question and Test Interoperability) | 1EdTech | Education | — | 35.7 Legacy |
| RESO Web API | RESO | Real Estate | — | 67.7 Modernizing |
| ReqIF (Requirements Interchange Format) | Object Management Group | Engineering | open | 58.0 Modernizing |
| S1000D | ASD / AIA / ATA | Defense | — | — |
| SAM / BAM / CRAM | GA4GH / hts-specs | Genomics | open | — |
| SARIF (Static Analysis Results Interchange Format) | OASIS | Software Development | open | 69.5 Modernizing |
| SBML (Systems Biology Markup Language) | SBML community / COMBINE | Biology | — | 46.2 Legacy |
| SCIM | IETF | Identity | open | 58.3 Modernizing |
| SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange) | SDMX Sponsors (BIS, ECB, Eurostat, IMF, OECD, UN, World Bank) | Statistics | — | 67.5 Modernizing |
| SEPA payment schemes (pain/pacs subsets) | European Payments Council | Payments | — | 50.7 Modernizing |
| SPL (Structured Product Labeling) | HL7 / US FDA | Pharma | — | 44.6 Legacy |
| STET PSD2 API | STET (France) | Open Banking | — | 72.3 Current |
| Sigma detection rules | SigmaHQ community | Security | — | 59.7 Modernizing |
| Solvency II QRT taxonomy | EIOPA | Insurance | — | 50.8 Modernizing |
| Space: CCSDS standards (SLE, XTCE, Mission Ops) | Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems | Space | — | — |
| SportsML | IPTC | Sports | — | 46.9 Legacy |
| TAF/TAP TSI and ERA RINF | European Union Agency for Railways | Rail | — | — |
| TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) | TEI Consortium | Humanities | open | 53.5 Modernizing |
| TOMP-API (Transport Operator Mobility as a Service Provider) | TOMP-API Working Group | Mobility | open | 77.1 Current |
| Test Anything Protocol and JUnit XML | TAP community / de facto | Software Development | — | 66.2 Modernizing |
| Tourism: OpenTravel and Alliance for Travel Tech schemas | OpenTravel Alliance / EU Tourism Data Space | Travel | open | 87.2 Current |
| UBL (Universal Business Language) | OASIS | Trade | open | 62.0 Modernizing |
| UIC OSDM (Open Sales and Distribution Model) | UIC | Rail | — | 63.1 Modernizing |
| US Core Implementation Guide | HL7 International | Healthcare | open | 69.3 Modernizing |
| VAST / VMAP | IAB Tech Lab | Advertising | open | 65.0 Modernizing |
| VCF (Variant Call Format) | GA4GH / hts-specs | Genomics | open | — |
| WBCSD PACT Pathfinder Framework | WBCSD | Sustainability | licence | — |
| WHO International Health Regulations reporting | World Health Organization | Public Health | open | 67.6 Modernizing |
| WITSML / PRODML / RESQML (Energistics) | Energistics / The Open Group | Energy | — | 50.0 Modernizing |
| WMO / OGC WIS 2.0 metadata and BUFR/GRIB | World Meteorological Organization | Meteorology | licence | — |
| WaDE (Water Data Exchange) | Western States Water Council | Water | — | — |
| Water: WaterML / OGC and Open Geospatial hydrology | Open Geospatial Consortium / WMO | Water | open | 63.5 Modernizing |
| Weather: NOAA/NWS data models and ECMWF conventions | NOAA / ECMWF | Meteorology | — | — |
| X12 EDI (HIPAA transaction sets) | ASC X12 | Healthcare | spec sold | 36.6 Legacy |
| X3D / Web3D | Web3D Consortium / ISO | 3D Graphics | spec sold | 37.3 Legacy |
| XBRL | XBRL International | Finance | — | — |
| XBRL GL (Global Ledger) | XBRL International | Finance | — | — |
| XLIFF | OASIS | Localization | open | 42.7 Legacy |
| XMI (XML Metadata Interchange) | Object Management Group | Cross Domain | open | 58.0 Modernizing |
| XML Schema (XSD) | W3C | Cross Domain | open | 78.0 Current |
| YARA rules | VirusTotal / community | Security | — | — |
| cXML / OCI punchout | Ariba / SAP | Procurement | — | 58.5 Modernizing |
| ebXML | OASIS / UN/CEFACT | Trade | open | 69.5 Modernizing |
| gbXML (Green Building XML) | gbXML.org | Built Environment | — | 48.4 Legacy |
| mzML and HUPO-PSI standards | HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative | Proteomics | — | — |
| railML | railML.org | Rail | licence | 30.8 Legacy |
| sellers.json and SupplyChain Object | IAB Tech Lab | Advertising | open | 74.0 Current |