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OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description)

Information Model 3D Graphics openly published

The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) is an open, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the interoperability of 3D content through OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description)....

Alliance for OpenUSD (Linux Foundation), from their own og:description

Also in the API standards catalog

This standard shows up on both sides of the house — as a data model here, and as a standard applied in API operations. Same standard, two lenses.

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Other 3d graphics data models

glTF Information Model X3D / Web3D Exchange Schema
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Model Details
Steward Alliance for OpenUSD (Linux Foundation)
Layer Information Model
Domain 3D Graphics
Status live
Access Openly published
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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 4/4. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

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Access Open
Assessed 50.0% 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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