Standards & Interoperability
A single reference of every open standard the platform builds on, and what role each one plays.
| Standard | Role | Where it shows up |
|---|---|---|
| ITU/FAO Reference Architecture | Overall blueprint | All APIs |
| ITU-T draft Recommendation Data model for digital agriculture and farm management systems | The data model | Data model, Digital Farm API |
| AgroVoc | Multilingual agricultural vocabulary | Ontology, typeUri attributes |
| SKOS · OWL 2 · RDF | Concept schemes, schema, linked data | Ontology |
| SOSA/SSN · PROV-O · GeoSPARQL · QUDT | Observations, provenance, geometry and units in RDF | Ontology |
| EPPO · BBCH · ICAR ADE · ISO 11783 (ISOBUS) | Code lists bound to concepts | Concept schemes |
| GeoJSON (RFC 7946) | Geometry representation | Digital Farm API |
| OpenAPI 3.1 | Machine-readable API description | API reference |
| JSON Schema 2020-12 · SHACL | Validation of records and datasets | Representations |
| JSON-LD 1.1 | Linked-data serialisation | Digital farm twin payloads |
| HTTP semantics (RFC 9110) · JSON Merge Patch (RFC 7396) · Problem Details (RFC 9457) | Reading, writing, concurrency and errors | Conventions, Errors |
| ISO 8601 · UCUM · ISO 4217 · ISO 3166-1 · BCP 47 | Time, units, currencies, countries, languages | Data model |
| OGC SensorThings API v1.1 | Sensor & observation model | Sensor Things API |
| OGC API · Features | Vector features — fields, regions, sites; vector layers | Digital Farm API, Spatio-Temporal API |
| OGC API · Coverages | Raster layer access | Spatio-Temporal API |
| OGC API · Tiles | Map tiles for web clients | Spatio-Temporal API |
| STAC v1.0 | Spatial-temporal asset catalogue | Spatio-Temporal API |
| W3C Web of Things (Thing Description) | Semantic IoT and entity self-description | Sensor and entity metadata |
| OAuth 2.0 · OpenID Connect · PKCE (RFC 7636) | Authentication of people and apps | Identity & Access |
| Token Exchange (RFC 8693) · JWT (RFC 7519) · private_key_jwt (RFC 7523) | Tokens cut to one service; app authentication | Signing in apps |
| OAuth 2.0 for Native Apps (RFC 8252) · Security BCP (RFC 9700) | Safe sign-in for apps | Signing in people |
| OIDC Back-Channel Logout · Device Authorization Grant (RFC 8628) | Logout propagation; command-line sign-in | SDK |
| ODRL · GAIA-X · IDSA | Usage policies and data-space contracts | Data sovereignty |
Conformance badges
Every API reference endpoint header carries a conformance badge — e.g. "OGC STA v1.1" or "STAC v1.0" — so you can tell at a glance which public specification a given endpoint follows.