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@adulau@infosec.exchange
2026-02-24 21:11:49

The Open Contributions Descriptor (OCD) is an open, machine-readable JSON format that allows an organization to publish a structured description of its participation in the open ecosystem.
It's still a bit in flux but the goal of OCD is to make organizational openness discoverable, interoperable, and automatable.
#opensource

Viewer of an OCD file
@adulau@infosec.exchange
2026-03-20 17:07:22

I just published The Open Contributions Descriptor format as an IETF Internet-Draft.
#opensource #opendata #openstandard

The Open Contributions Descriptor
This document defines the Open Contributions Descriptor (OCD), a JSON format for publishing machine-readable metadata about an organization's participation in the open ecosystem. OCD allows organizations to publish a single discovery document describing open source projects, open data publications, open standards participation, contact information, governance material, and declared relationships to external organizations and projects. OCD is intended to be published at a predictable well-known …