Current standardization efforts

NameGoalsRelevant Standards
Data Catalog Schema
  1. Create a standard format for exposing resources to a catalog (or from a catalog)
  2. Define an apis.xml file to allows catalogs to aggregate APIs from data sources or other catalogs
  3. Define a catalog.xml file to allows catalogs to aggregate resources from data sources or other catalogs
Catalog Update Api -- NOT STARTED YET
  1. Create an Api to more efficiently determine changes to a catalog
Dataset Query Api -- NOT STARTED YET
  1. Standardize on an API for querying data within a dataset
Dataset Federation -- NOT STARTED YET
  1. Create a protocol for distributing the data within a dataset, and allowing other servers to synch the data.