Interoperability
Open standards and formats
Open standards let data move between tools and organisations without lock-in. They are the “I” (interoperable) in FAIR.
Formats and standards worth knowing
| Standard | What it is |
|---|---|
| CSV | Plain-text tables; universal but untyped (RFC 4180). |
| JSON | Nested, human-readable structured data. |
| Apache Parquet | Columnar file format for efficient analytics. |
| Apache Arrow | In-memory columnar format for fast exchange between tools. |
| GeoJSON | JSON for geographic features. |
| DCAT | W3C vocabulary for describing datasets in catalogs. |
| Frictionless Data Package | Lightweight spec for packaging data with metadata and schema. |
| schema.org/Dataset | Markup that helps search engines index datasets. |
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