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255 data model standards stewarded by bodies whose membership or mandate crosses borders — consortia, treaty organizations and open standards bodies. Where such a body has a headquarters it is shown as a footnote, because the country of an office is not the origin of a standard. Every one confirmed against its steward's own site.

Standard Steward Domain Access Modernity
ADMS (Asset Description Metadata Schema) W3C / European Commission Government open 65.4 Modernizing
AGROVOC FAO of the United Nations Agriculture open 69.0 Modernizing
Allotrope Data Format and Foundation Taxonomies Allotrope Foundation Laboratory spec sold
B2MML MESA International Manufacturing open 46.5 Legacy
BCF (BIM Collaboration Format) buildingSMART International Construction open 56.7 Modernizing
BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) Object Management Group Cross Domain open 58.0 Modernizing
Bioschemas Bioschemas community / ELIXIR Life Sciences open 66.7 Modernizing
CACAO Security Playbooks (Collaborative Automated Course of Action Operations) OASIS Security open 83.0 Current
CAMARA Linux Foundation / GSMA Telecom open
CARO (Common Anatomy Reference Ontology) OBO Foundry Biology open 66.3 Modernizing
CCSDS Orbit Data Messages (OEM / OMM / CDM) CCSDS Space
CDISC ADaM (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium) CDISC Life Sciences 54.5 Modernizing
CDISC CDASH (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium) CDISC Life Sciences 54.5 Modernizing
CDISC ODM-XML (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium) CDISC Life Sciences 54.5 Modernizing
CDISC SDTM (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium) CDISC Life Sciences 54.5 Modernizing
CIF (Crystallographic Information Framework) International Union of Crystallography Chemistry open 50.8 Modernizing
CL (Cell Ontology) OBO Foundry Biology open 69.9 Modernizing
CMMN (Case Management Model and Notation) Object Management Group Cross Domain open 58.0 Modernizing
COBie (Construction Operations Building Information Exchange) buildingSMART / NIBS Construction
COICOP / CPC / HS product classifications UN Statistics Division Statistics open
CSAF (Common Security Advisory Framework) OASIS Security open
CUSIP / SEDOL CUSIP Global Services / LSEG Finance licence
CityGML Open Geospatial Consortium Built Environment open 61.4 Modernizing
CityJSON Open Geospatial Consortium / TU Delft Built Environment open 62.9 Modernizing
CloudEvents CNCF Cross Domain open 73.0 Current
CoSWID / SWID tags IETF / ISO/IEC 19770-2 Software Supply Chain spec sold 55.0 Modernizing
Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL) Creative Commons / W3C Cross Domain open 65.4 Modernizing
Croissant (ML dataset metadata) MLCommons AI
DATEX II CEN TC 278 Transportation spec sold
DCAT / DCAT-AP W3C / European Commission Government open 79.0 Current
DDI (Data Documentation Initiative) DDI Alliance Social Science open 52.3 Modernizing
DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) OASIS Technical Documentation open 68.0 Modernizing
DMN (Decision Model and Notation) Object Management Group Cross Domain open 64.3 Modernizing
DQV (Data Quality Vocabulary) W3C Data Engineering open 70.0 Modernizing
DTI (Digital Token Identifier) ISO 24165 DTIF / ANNA Crypto
DataCite Metadata Schema DataCite Scholarly open 65.4 Modernizing
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) OCLC Library licence 38.0 Legacy
Dublin Core / DCMI Metadata Terms Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Metadata open 71.4 Modernizing
EARL (Evaluation and Report Language) W3C Accessibility open 61.7 Modernizing
ECO (Evidence and Conclusion Ontology) OBO Foundry / ECO project Life Sciences open 73.1 Current
EDXL (Emergency Data Exchange Language) / CAP OASIS Public Safety open 69.5 Modernizing
ENVO (Environment Ontology) OBO Foundry / EnvO project Ecology open 69.0 Modernizing
EPUB and EPUB Accessibility metadata W3C Publishing open 73.3 Current
Egeria open metadata types LF AI & Data Data Engineering open 63.3 Modernizing
Elastic Common Schema (ECS) Elastic / OpenTelemetry Observability 72.2 Current
FIBO (Financial Industry Business Ontology) EDM Council / OMG Finance 76.1 Current
FIGI (Financial Instrument Global Identifier) Object Management Group / Bloomberg Finance open
FIXM (Flight Information Exchange Model) FIXM Change Control Board / ICAO Aviation spec sold 32.1 Legacy
FoodOn FoodOn Consortium / OBO Foundry Food open
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
GDST (Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability) Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability Fisheries
GHG Protocol WRI / WBCSD Sustainability
GRI Standards (Global Reporting Initiative) Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability
GTFS / GTFS-Realtime (General Transit Feed Specification) MobilityData Transit open 72.0 Current
Generic Longitudinal Business Process Model (GLBPM) DDI Alliance Social Science 41.7 Legacy
GeoPackage Open Geospatial Consortium Geospatial open 65.0 Modernizing
HL7 CDA / C-CDA HL7 International Healthcare licence
HL7 FHIR Health Level Seven International Healthcare open 67.7 Modernizing
HL7 RIM (Reference Information Model) HL7 International Healthcare licence 34.1 Legacy
HL7 Version 2 HL7 International Healthcare licence 34.1 Legacy
HXL (Humanitarian Exchange Language) UN OCHA Humanitarian open
Harmonized System (HS) codes World Customs Organization Customs
IAO (Information Artifact Ontology) OBO Foundry Cross Domain open 66.3 Modernizing
IATA NDC (International Air Transport Association) IATA Travel licence 38.5 Legacy
ICAO Doc 9303 machine readable travel documents (International Civil Aviation Organization) ICAO Identity spec sold 47.9 Legacy
ICAR standards (animal recording) International Committee for Animal Recording Animal Science
ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases) World Health Organization Healthcare open 85.7 Current
ICF (International Classification of Functioning) World Health Organization Healthcare open 67.6 Modernizing
IDS (Information Delivery Specification) buildingSMART International Construction open 65.0 Modernizing
IEEE 11073 PHD (Personal Health Devices) IEEE Medical Devices spec sold
IEEE 11073 SDC (Service-oriented Device Connectivity) IEEE Medical Devices spec sold
IEEE 1516 HLA / DIS IEEE / SISO Simulation spec sold
IEEE 2030.5 (Smart Energy Profile) IEEE Energy spec sold
IETF network topology models (RFC 8345) IETF Networking open 54.7 Modernizing
IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) buildingSMART International Construction open 70.0 Modernizing
IFRS 17 insurance contracts data requirements (International Financial Reporting Standards) IFRS Foundation Insurance
IFRS Accounting Taxonomy (International Financial Reporting Standards) IFRS Foundation Finance
IFRS S1 / S2 (ISSB) taxonomy IFRS Foundation / ISSB Sustainability
IHE Technical Frameworks and Profiles IHE International Healthcare 46.8 Legacy
IHO S-100 / S-101 ENC (International Hydrographic Organization) International Hydrographic Organization Maritime
IMO Reference Data Model / FAL Compendium (International Maritime Organization) International Maritime Organization Maritime
IODEF (RFC 7970) IETF Security open 60.2 Modernizing
IPTC Media Topics (International Press Telecommunications Council) IPTC News 46.5 Legacy
IPTC NewsML-G2 and ninjs (International Press Telecommunications Council) International Press Telecommunications Council News 45.2 Legacy
IPTC Photo Metadata Standard (International Press Telecommunications Council) IPTC Media 48.1 Legacy
ISA-95 / IEC 62264 ISA / IEC Manufacturing spec sold
ISDA CDM (Common Domain Model) ISDA / FINOS Finance
ISIN / CFI / FISN (ISO 6166, 10962, 18774) ISO / ANNA Finance spec sold
ISO 10303 STEP / AP242 ISO TC 184 SC 4 Engineering spec sold
ISO 10303-239 PLCS (Product Life Cycle Support) ISO TC 184 SC 4 / OASIS Engineering spec sold
ISO 10383 MIC (Market Identifier Codes) ISO / SWIFT Finance spec sold 36.6 Legacy
ISO 11238 IDMP (Identification of Medicinal Products) ISO / EMA / FDA Pharma spec sold
ISO 12006 building construction classification framework ISO TC 59 Construction spec sold
ISO 12620 / DatCatInfo data categories ISO TC 37 Linguistics spec sold
ISO 12812 mobile financial services ISO TC 68 Payments spec sold 47.7 Legacy
ISO 13606 EHR Communication ISO/TC 215 Healthcare spec sold
ISO 13616 IBAN ISO / SWIFT Payments spec sold
ISO 14224 reliability and maintenance data ISO TC 67 Asset Management spec sold
ISO 14817 ITS data registry ISO TC 204 Transportation spec sold 47.7 Legacy
ISO 15489 records management ISO TC 46 SC 11 Records Management spec sold
ISO 15926 ISO TC 184 SC 4 / POSC Caesar Chemical Engineering spec sold
ISO 19086 cloud SLA framework ISO/IEC JTC1 SC38 Cloud spec sold 46.0 Legacy
ISO 19107 / 19109 Spatial Schema and General Feature Model ISO/TC 211 Geospatial spec sold
ISO 19115 Geographic Metadata ISO/TC 211 Geospatial spec sold 46.0 Legacy
ISO 19160 addressing ISO/TC 211 Cross Domain spec sold
ISO 20275 Entity Legal Forms ISO / GLEIF Finance spec sold 50.0 Modernizing
ISO 21090 Healthcare Datatypes ISO / HL7 Healthcare spec sold 31.7 Legacy
ISO 24510 water services ISO TC 224 Water spec sold 47.7 Legacy
ISO 30414 human capital reporting ISO TC 260 HR spec sold
ISO 3166 / 4217 / 639 country, currency, language codes ISO Cross Domain spec sold 29.6 Legacy
ISO 37120 city indicators ISO TC 268 Smart Cities spec sold
ISO 41011 facility management ISO TC 267 Facilities spec sold 47.7 Legacy
ISO 80000 quantities and units ISO / IEC Cross Domain spec sold
ISO 8583 ISO Payments spec sold
ISO 8601 date and time ISO Cross Domain spec sold
ISO 9362 BIC ISO / SWIFT Finance spec sold
ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registries ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 Cross Domain spec sold
ISO/IEC 18013-5 mDL (mobile driving licence) ISO/IEC JTC1 SC17 Identity spec sold
ISO/IEC 19505 / 19507 (UML, OCL) ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 / OMG Cross Domain spec sold
ISOBUS / ISO 11783 AEF / ISO TC 23 SC 19 Agriculture spec sold 42.0 Legacy
IT4IT Reference Architecture The Open Group IT Operations
IVOA Data Models (ObsCore, VOTable, etc.) International Virtual Observatory Alliance Astronomy 58.3 Modernizing
IWXXM (ICAO Meteorological Information Exchange Model) WMO / ICAO Aviation spec sold
Iceberg REST Catalog and table metadata Apache Software Foundation Data Engineering
IndoorGML Open Geospatial Consortium Built Environment open 53.5 Modernizing
Inline XBRL (iXBRL) and ESEF XBRL International / ESMA Finance
JMAP IETF Messaging open 77.3 Current
JSCalendar / JSContact IETF Cross Domain open 55.9 Modernizing
JSON Schema OpenJS Foundation / IETF Cross Domain open 76.9 Current
JSON-LD W3C Cross Domain open 65.0 Modernizing
KMIP (Key Management Interoperability Protocol) OASIS Security open 68.0 Modernizing
KML Open Geospatial Consortium Geospatial open 59.0 Modernizing
LADM (ISO 19152 Land Administration Domain Model) ISO TC 211 Real Estate spec sold
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) / ISO 17442 GLEIF Finance 56.9 Modernizing
LegalRuleML OASIS Legal open 72.0 Current
Lexical Markup Framework (ISO 24613) ISO TC 37 Linguistics spec sold
MIAPPE (plant phenotyping) ELIXIR / MIAPPE community Agriculture
MISMO Commercial / BOMA standards BOMA International Real Estate
MLCommons AI Safety / risk taxonomies MLCommons / NIST AI RMF AI
MONDO Disease Ontology Monarch Initiative Healthcare open 73.1 Current
MPEG-7 / MPEG-21 (Moving Picture Experts Group) ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29 (MPEG) Media spec sold
MUD (Manufacturer Usage Description) IETF Iot open 58.5 Modernizing
MUDDI (Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration) Open Geospatial Consortium Built Environment open
MathML W3C Mathematics open 62.2 Modernizing
NBO (Neuro Behavior Ontology) OBO Foundry Psychology open 66.3 Modernizing
NeTEx / SIRI / Transmodel CEN TC278 Transit spec sold
OBI (Ontology for Biomedical Investigations) OBO Foundry / OBI Consortium Life Sciences open 66.3 Modernizing
OBO Foundry ontologies OBO Foundry Biology open 66.3 Modernizing
OCSF (Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework) OCSF / Linux Foundation Security open 73.0 Current
ODRL (Open Digital Rights Language) W3C Cross Domain open 77.0 Current
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) Open Geospatial Consortium Geospatial open 84.0 Current
OGC GeoSPARQL Open Geospatial Consortium / W3C Geospatial open 70.0 Modernizing
OGC LandInfra / InfraGML (Open Geospatial Consortium) Open Geospatial Consortium Real Estate open
OGC Moving Features (Open Geospatial Consortium) Open Geospatial Consortium Geospatial open 60.6 Modernizing
OGC SensorThings API Open Geospatial Consortium Iot open
OGC Simple Features Open Geospatial Consortium Geospatial open
OGC WaterML 2.0 and HY_Features (Open Geospatial Consortium) OGC / WMO Water
OMG / Object Management Group insurance and finance models (Object Management Group) Object Management Group Finance open 65.0 Modernizing
OMG MOF and UML (Object Management Group) Object Management Group Cross Domain open 64.3 Modernizing
OMG SysML (Object Management Group) Object Management Group Engineering open 68.2 Modernizing
OSCRE Industry Data Model OSCRE International Real Estate licence
OSV Schema (Open Source Vulnerability) OpenSSF Security open 74.2 Current
OWL (Web Ontology Language) W3C Cross Domain open 62.9 Modernizing
Odette and VDA automotive standards Odette International / VDA Automotive 71.0 Modernizing
Open Data Product Specification (ODPS) ODPS community / Linux Foundation Data Engineering open 71.6 Modernizing
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
OpenLineage LF AI & Data Data Engineering open 73.3 Current
OpenSSF Scorecard and SLSA provenance OpenSSF Software Supply Chain open
OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions CNCF / OpenTelemetry Observability open
OpenTravel Specification OpenTravel Alliance Travel open 87.2 Current
PATO (Phenotype And Trait Ontology) OBO Foundry Biology open 66.3 Modernizing
PIDX and CIDX PIDX International / CIDX Energy
PRO (Protein Ontology) OBO Foundry / PRO Consortium Proteomics open 69.0 Modernizing
PROV-O W3C Cross Domain open 72.7 Current
Package URL (purl) purl-spec community / OpenSSF Software Supply Chain open 79.6 Current
PhenoPackets GA4GH Life Sciences 68.8 Modernizing
Postal: UPU standards (S10 tracking, M-series) Universal Postal Union Postal 43.1 Legacy
RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol) IETF / ICANN Internet Infrastructure open 53.8 Modernizing
RDF / RDFS (Resource Description Framework) W3C Cross Domain open 64.3 Modernizing
RDF Data Cube vocabulary (Resource Description Framework) W3C Statistics open 69.0 Modernizing
RO (Relation Ontology) OBO Foundry Cross Domain open 66.3 Modernizing
ReqIF (Requirements Interchange Format) Object Management Group Engineering open 58.0 Modernizing
SAM / BAM / CRAM (Sequence Alignment Map) GA4GH / hts-specs Genomics open
SARIF (Static Analysis Results Interchange Format) OASIS Software Development open 69.5 Modernizing
SASB Standards IFRS Foundation Sustainability
SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules) Object Management Group Cross Domain open 58.0 Modernizing
SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) IETF Identity open 58.3 Modernizing
SDG Indicator Framework (Sustainable Development Goals) UN Statistics Division Development open
SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange) SDMX Sponsors (BIS, ECB, Eurostat, IMF, OECD, UN, World Bank) Statistics 67.5 Modernizing
SHACL W3C Cross Domain open 63.3 Modernizing
SIC / ISIC / NACE (industry classifications other than NAICS) UN Statistics Division (ISIC) / Eurostat (NACE) / US SEC and UK ONS (SIC) Government
SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) W3C Cross Domain open 63.0 Modernizing
SNOMED CT SNOMED International Healthcare licence 46.7 Legacy
SNOMED CT Veterinary Extension SNOMED International / VTSL Veterinary
SPDX Linux Foundation Security open 87.1 Current
SPL (Structured Product Labeling) HL7 / US FDA Pharma 44.6 Legacy
SSN / SOSA (Semantic Sensor Network ontology) W3C / OGC Iot open 63.0 Modernizing
STATO (Statistical Methods Ontology) OBO Foundry / STATO project Statistics open
SensorML / Observations & Measurements (O&M) Open Geospatial Consortium Earth Science open 60.5 Modernizing
Smart Data Models initiative FIWARE / TM Forum / IUDX / OASC Smart Cities open 69.2 Modernizing
Solid data model / Linked Data Platform Solid Project / W3C Cross Domain open 79.0 Current
SportsML IPTC Sports 46.9 Legacy
TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications) OASIS Cloud open 68.0 Modernizing
Thema and BISAC subject codes EDItEUR / BISG Publishing licence 37.7 Legacy
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
UO (Units of Measurement Ontology) OBO Foundry Cross Domain open 66.3 Modernizing
UPU S42 international addressing (Universal Postal Union) Universal Postal Union Addressing 43.1 Legacy
US Core Implementation Guide HL7 International Healthcare open 69.3 Modernizing
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology OBO Foundry / Uberon project Biology open 66.3 Modernizing
Unicode CLDR Unicode Consortium Localization open 64.5 Modernizing
Unicode UTS Unicode Consortium Localization open 60.2 Modernizing
VCF (Variant Call Format) GA4GH / hts-specs Genomics open
VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) OCLC Library open
Vertebrate Trait Ontology (VT) OBO Foundry / Rat Genome Database Animal Science open 66.3 Modernizing
VoID (Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets) W3C Cross Domain open 63.0 Modernizing
W3C CSV on the Web (CSVW) W3C Cross Domain open 73.1 Current
W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) W3C Identity open 67.1 Modernizing
W3C ORG ontology W3C Cross Domain open 71.0 Modernizing
W3C Time Ontology in OWL W3C / OGC Cross Domain open 67.1 Modernizing
W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model W3C Identity open 79.0 Current
W3C Web Annotation Data Model W3C Cross Domain open 63.0 Modernizing
W3C Web of Things Thing Description W3C Iot open 78.4 Current
WBCSD PACT Pathfinder Framework (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) WBCSD Sustainability licence
WCO Data Model (World Customs Organization) World Customs Organization Customs 43.1 Legacy
WHO International Health Regulations reporting (World Health Organization) 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) World Meteorological Organization Meteorology licence
Water: WaterML / OGC and Open Geospatial hydrology Open Geospatial Consortium / WMO Water open 63.5 Modernizing
WordNet Princeton University / Global WordNet Association Linguistics open
X.509 / PKIX certificate profile ITU-T / IETF Security spec sold 43.0 Legacy
X3D / Web3D Web3D Consortium / ISO 3D Graphics spec sold 37.3 Legacy
XACML OASIS Security open 68.0 Modernizing
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
XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) / ISO 16684 Adobe / ISO Cross Domain spec sold 58.0 Modernizing
YANG data models (IETF) IETF Networking open 63.4 Modernizing
bSDD (buildingSMART Data Dictionary) buildingSMART International Construction open 81.1 Current
ebXML OASIS / UN/CEFACT Trade open 69.5 Modernizing
iCalendar / jCal (RFC 5545, 7265) IETF Cross Domain open
mCODE (Minimal Common Oncology Data Elements) HL7 / ASCO Healthcare open 83.0 Current
openEHR Archetypes / Reference Model openEHR International Healthcare open 85.2 Current
schema.org Dataset / Google Dataset Search W3C Schema.org Community Group Cross Domain open 78.0 Current
schema.org Product / Offer vocabulary W3C Schema.org Community Group Cross Domain open 67.9 Modernizing
vCard / jCard (RFC 6350, 7095) IETF Cross Domain open 48.0 Legacy
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