Data contract
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A Data Contract is a formal agreement that defines expectations around a data artifact such as a dataset, a stream, etc.
The Linux Foundation project Bitol has published a data contract standard called Open Data Contract Standard (OCDS).[1]. Its current version is 3.0.1.
History
On April 28th, 2024, PayPal publishes as Open Source its data contract template[2]. It came from the work that Jean-Georges Perrin and his team were doing on Data Mesh[3].
In June 2023, Andrew Jones publishes "Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts: A comprehensive guide to building reliable, trusted, and effective data platforms.[4]"
In November 2023, The Linux Foundation accepted the Bitol project that forked the work from PayPal and created the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS)[5]
References
- ^ "Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS)". GitHub. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- ^ "Paypal/Data-contract-template". GitHub. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ^ Perrin, Jean-Georges. "The next generation of Data Platforms is the Data Mesh". Medium. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ^ "Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts: A comprehensive guide to building reliable, trusted, and effective data platforms". Packt. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ^ "Bitol Joins LF AI & Data as New Sandbox Project". 2023-11-30. Retrieved 17 January 2025.