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ODM2 (Observations Data Model 2)

Information Model Earth Science

ODM2 is an information model and supporting software ecosystem for feature-based earth observations, designed to facilitate interoperability across scientific disciplines and domain cyberinfrastructures. For example, a single ODM2 database can readily integrate diverse types datasets such as: hydrological time series, soil and sediment geochemistry, biodiversity surveys, oceanographic sensor profiles, multi-dimensional spectra, and more (Horsburgh et al. 2016).

CUAHSI / ODM2 community, from their own opening paragraph

Other earth science data models

SensorML / Observations & Measurements (O&M) Information Model
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Model Details
Steward CUAHSI / ODM2 community
Layer Information Model
Domain Earth Science
Status live
Access Not yet established
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 2/2. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
Access Not established
Assessed 55.0% of the rubric

Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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