ODCS v3.2.0 standardizes the sections of a producer–consumer data contract

ODCS defines a data contract as the agreement between a data producer and consumers. Version v3.2.0 lists sections such as fundamentals, schema, references, data quality, support channels, pricing, team, roles, SLA, infrastructures and servers, authoritative definitions, tags, and custom properties. A JSON Schema is provided for IDE validation of YAML; the official media type is application/odcs+yaml;version=3.2.0.

Data and platform teams get a shared checklist for what a contract must say—not only columns, but quality, ownership, and service levels—so producer and consumer expectations can be checked in tooling rather than left in slides.

For governed meaning across systems, ODCS treats schema and authoritative definitions as first-class contract content, giving schemas, pipelines, and agents a machine-checkable place to read the same producer–consumer rules.