Open Data Contract Standard

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Executive summary

This standard describes a structure for a data contract. It's current version is 2.2.0. It is available for you as an Apache 2.0 license. Contributions are welcome!

Discover the open standard

Discover the Open Data Contract Standard. This file contains some explanations and several examples. More examples have been added to v2.2.

What is a Data Contract?

The basics of a data contract

A data contract defines the agreement between a data producer and consumers. A data contract contains several sections:

Fundamentals.
Schema.
Data quality.
Service-level agreement (SLA).
Security & stakeholders.
Custom properties.

Figure 1: illustration of a data contract, its principal contributors, sections, and usage.

Contributing to the project

Check out the CONTRIBUTING file.

Articles

2023-10-01 - Data Contracts: A Bridge Connecting Two Worlds
2023-09-10 - Data Contracts 101
2023-08-10 - Welcome to the Open Data Contract Standard
2023-05-11 - Data Contracts – Everything You Need to Know
2023-05-07 - Data Engineering Weekly #130 - Data Contract in the Wild with PayPal’s Data Contract Template
2023-05-06 - PayPal เปิด Data Contract เป็น Open Source Template ให้ไปใช้งานกัน
2023-05-05 - Jonathan Neo (j__neo ) on Reddit
2023-05-01 - PayPal open sources its data contract template

If you spot an article about the Open Data Contract Standard, make a pull request!

History

Formerly known as the data contract template, this standard is used to implement Data Mesh at PayPal. Today, started with v2.2.0, it is maintained by a 501c6 non-profit organization called AIDA User Group (Articifial Intelligence, Data, and Analytics User Group).

How does PayPal use Data Contracts?

PayPal uses data contracts in many ways, but this article from the PayPal Technology blog gives a good introduction.

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