odcs 0.2.0

Reference implementation of the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS)
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ODCS — Open Data Contract Standard

Reference Rust implementation for the Open Data Contract Standard.

Status: Pre-release skeleton
Upstream ODCS version: 3.1.0
Reference implementation: 0.2.0 (Phase 1 — Skeleton)

See ROADMAP.md for milestone status.

Overview

SPEC.md defines the upstream specification policy for this repository. The published ODCS specification remains the normative standard; this crate provides an idiomatic Rust API, deterministic validation, diagnostics, and CLI tooling aligned with upstream semantics.

This repository contains:

Path Purpose
SPEC.md Upstream specification policy and synchronization workflow
docs/ Documentation index
docs/implementation/ Reference implementation design and build guides
src/ Rust crate source (odcs)
python/ Python package source (pyodcs on PyPI)
examples/ Sample ODCS data contracts
tests/ Integration tests and fixtures
ROADMAP.md Reference implementation milestones
.github/workflows/ CI pipeline

Ecosystem

ODCS defines what data is.
DTCS defines how data changes.
DPCS defines how transformations compose.

See docs/implementation/relationship-to-dtcs.md for positioning alongside DTCS.

Quick start

Build the Rust crate

cargo build
cargo test
cargo run -- validate examples/minimal.odcs.yaml
cargo run -- version

Validate a contract

odcs validate examples/minimal.odcs.yaml
odcs validate examples/minimal.odcs.yaml --json
odcs inspect examples/minimal.odcs.yaml

The reference implementation targets this pipeline:

ODCS Document → Parser → Canonical Object Model → Validator → Diagnostics

Execution, pipeline composition, and transformation semantics remain out of scope. See docs/implementation/non-goals.md.

Repository layout

odcs/
├── SPEC.md                 # Upstream specification policy
├── Cargo.toml              # Rust crate manifest
├── pyproject.toml          # Python package manifest (`pyodcs`, maturin)
├── README.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── LICENSE
├── docs/
│   ├── README.md           # Documentation index
│   └── implementation/     # Reference implementation guides
├── examples/               # Example data contracts
├── python/                 # Python package source (`pyodcs`)
├── src/                    # Rust library, CLI binary, validation
├── tests/                  # Integration tests and fixtures
└── .cursor/prompts/        # Cursor build prompt

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for implementation guidelines and the review process.

When implementation guidance conflicts with the upstream ODCS specification, the upstream specification wins. See docs/implementation/spec-usage.md.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE.