Working Group Description

Decentralised Semantics is an exciting new data domain spearheaded by the Foundation to enable the structuring of unstructured data with morphologic accuracy. It is an essential underpinning of our envisioned Dynamic Data Economy (DDE) and guides tooling development for the DDE Semantic Layer (Layer 1 of the DDE Trust Infrastructure).

Having identified "data harmonisation" as the primary objective of the Semantic Layer, the Foundation has spent the last few years developing a global standard for data capture, Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA), which in terms of simplicity, accuracy, and allocation of resources, promises to significantly enhance the ability to define, manage, and use data. Furthermore, OCA introduces a comprehensive solution to support data collection, validation, transformation, and presentation requirements throughout a data lifecycle, providing critical tooling for capturing the metadata necessary to interpret and preserve the meaning of inputted data.

To further develop the new data domain of Decentralised Semantics, including the OCA standard, the Foundation created the Decentralised Semantics Working Group (DSWG) and is welcoming participation from those who are committed to the same goal.

The DSWG will create and maintain the official OCA Technical Specification, generate Source Code for open-access schemas, and create and maintain datasets and assets to benefit the OCA Ecosystem and DDE data ecosystems.

We also expect to discover further standardisation and tooling requirements for Decentralised Semantics through the Working Group.