OUDEA defines an architecture for decentralized discovery, exchange, and processing of structured data across domain-based ecosystems. The architecture introduces domain-governed schemas, canonical data spaces, and interoperable implementations.
This is an alpha draft of the OUDEA specification. It is published to establish the initial architecture model, terminology, and publication structure.
OUDEA aims to support a decentralized web of structured data in which domains act as schema authorities and federated systems exchange data through open, machine-readable contracts.
This specification defines the conceptual and architectural foundations of OUDEA independently of any single implementation.
This document defines the OUDEA architecture, its core concepts, and the publication model for canonical schemas, data spaces, and implementations.
Future revisions of this specification will define terms such as domain authority, schema namespace, canonical data room, exchange node, and reference implementation.
Human-readable OUDEA documentation is published on the OUDEA site, while canonical machine-readable schemas are published under schemas.oudea.org.
The normative specification is published at alpha.oudea.org/spec/.
OUDEA is implementation-independent. The first reference implementation is bytEM, which provides initial support for OUDEA-compatible schemas, data spaces, and exchange patterns.