Conventions and Standards Ecosystem Inventory

GOAT Standards Inventory

April 2026

We’re working on building an inventory of standards developed or in use by the tools, projects, and organizations in the GOAT community. We define standards as any shared convention, schema, vocabulary, or protocol that enables interoperability. This process has three phases, and we’re in the first:

Phase 1: standards represented in the initial working group (Ongoing)
Phase 2: standards represented in the active online GOAT community
Phase 3: standards represented at the GOAT 2026 conference

Live Inventory Feed

You can see what has been added to the inventory here. Keep in mind that data submitted via the form at the bottom of this page must be processed before it is correctly represented in this table below.

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Add a Standards to the Inventory

Please submit the standards you are maintaining or utilizing in your work. You’ll notice that we are using a very broad definition of standard. A standard may be defined as any of the following:

Schema
Vocabulary / Ontology
Taxonomy / Classification
Identifier standard
Unit of measure / Codelist
File format
Message / exchange format
API specification
Communication protocol
Measurement / test method
Data governance framework
Licensing standard
Privacy / consent framework
Conformance / certification
Interoperability profile

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