OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC

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Simplifying data sharing across disparate applications in enterprise, Cloud, and mobile devices

Michael Pizzo, mikep@microsoft.com, Chair
Ralf Handl, ralf.handl@sap.com, Chair
George Ericson, George.Ericson@dell.com, Secretary

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Announcements

OData V4.01 and OData JSON Format V4.01 Committee Specifications 01 are published; 30 January 2018.

ISO/IEC JTC 1 Approves OASIS OData Standard for Open Data Exchange; 23 Feb 2017.

OData V4.0 and OData JSON Format V4.0 Approved Errata are published; 13 July 2016.

OData was named as a 2014 Open Standards Cup Finalist in the Outstanding Accomplished Technical Committee category. Congratulations!

Overview

The OASIS OData TC works to simplify the querying and sharing of data across disparate applications and multiple stakeholders for re-use in the enterprise, Cloud, and mobile devices. A REST-based protocol, OData builds on HTTP and JSON using URIs to address and access data feed resources. It enables information to be accessed from a variety of sources including (but not limited to) relational databases, file systems, content management systems, and traditional Web sites. OData provides a way to break down data silos and increase the shared value of data by creating an ecosystem in which data consumers can interoperate with data producers in a way that is far more powerful than currently possible, enabling more applications to make sense of a broader set of data. Every producer and consumer of data that participates in this ecosystem increases its overall value.

Specification development in the OASIS OData TC builds on the core OData Protocol V3 released in April 2012 and addresses additional requirements identified as extensions in four directional white papers: data aggregation, temporal data, JSON documents, and XML documents as streams. OData features lacking complete definition will also be addressed. For example, consideration will be given to design of an OData pull-model "delta protocol" to support incremental maintenance of local (i.e., cached) results through "delta queries". Though not suitable for multi-master synchronization scenarios, it would support synchronization of data from a single store to multiple clients; coupled with the ability to submit updates from the client to the server, this can be used to provide a solution for keeping client's local data in sync with a single store.

For more information on OData, see theTC Charter.

Editors

  • OData Protocol, OData URL Conventions, OData ABNF Construction Rules: Michael Pizzo (Microsoft), Ralf Handl (SAP SE), Martin Zurmuehl (SAP SE)
  • OData Conceptual Schema Definition Language (CSDL) JSON and XML: Michael Pizzo (Microsoft), Ralf Handl (SAP SE), Martin Zurmuehl (SAP SE)
  • OData JSON Format: Ralf Handl (SAP SE), Michael Pizzo (Microsoft), Mark Biamonte (Progress Software)
  • OData Extension for Data Aggregation: Ralf Handl (SAP SE), Hubert Heijkers (IBM), Michael Pizzo (Microsoft), Gerald Krause (SAP SE), Martin Zurmuehl (SAP SE)
  • OData Extension for Temporal Data: Ralf Handl (SAP SE), Hubert Heijkers (IBM), Michael Pizzo (Microsoft), Martin Zurmuehl (SAP SE)

Subcommittees

No subcommittees have been formed for this TC.

TC Tools and Approved Publications

Technical Work Produced by the Committee

In January 2018, the OData Technical Committee has approved Committee Specification 01 of the following Work Products:

(1) OData Version 4.01 (multi-part Work Product)

(2) OData Common Schema Definition Language (CSDL) JSON Representation 4.01

(3) OData Common Schema Definition Language (CSDL) XML Representation 4.01

(4) OData JSON Format Version 4.01

In September 2017, the OData Technical Committee has approved Committee Note 02 of the following Work Product:

(5) What’s New in OData Version 4.01

In December 2016, the OData Technical Committee has approved Committee Specification Draft 01 of the following Work Product:

(6) OData to OpenAPI Mapping Version 1.0

In December 2016, the OData Technical Committee has approved Committee Note Draft 01 of the following Work Product:

(7) OData Vocabularies Version 4.0

In November 2015, the OData Technical Committee has approved Committee Specification 02 of the following Work Product:

(8) OData Extension for Data Aggregation Version 4.0

In February 2014, the membership of OASIS approved the following two OASIS Standards:

(9) OData Version 4.0 Plus Errata 03 (multi-part Work Product)

(10) OData JSON Format Version 4.0 Plus Errata 03

The OData Technical Committee has approved Committee Specification 02 of the following Work Product:

(11) OData Atom Format Version 4.0

The OData Technical Committee has approved Committee Note 01 of the following Work Product:

(12) What’s New in OData Version 4.0

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose documents and related files mentioned above in ZIP distribution files:

  1. OData Version 4.01:http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata/v4.01/cs01/odata-v4.01-cs01.zip
  2. OData Common Schema Definition Language (CSDL) JSON Representation Version 4.01:http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata-csdl-json/v4.01/cs01/odata-csdl-json-v4.01-cs01.zip
  3. OData Common Schema Definition Language (CSDL) XML Representation Version 4.01:http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata-csdl-xml/v4.01/cs01/odata-csdl-xml-v4.01-cs01.zip
  4. OData JSON Format Version 4.01:http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata-json-format/v4.01/cs01/odata-json-format-v4.01-cs01.zip
  5. What’s New in OData Version 4.01:http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/new-in-odata/v4.01/cn02/new-in-odata-v4.01-cn02.zip
  6. OData to OpenAPI Mapping Version 1.0:http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata-openapi/v1.0/cnprd01/odata-openapi-v1.0-cnprd01.zip
  7. OData Vocabularies Version 4.0:http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata-vocabularies/v4.0/csprd01/odata-vocabularies-v4.0-csprd01.zip
  8. OData Extension for Data Aggregation Version 4.0:http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata-data-aggregation-ext/v4.0/cs02/odata-data-aggregation-ext-v4.0-cs02.zip
  9. OData Version 4.0:http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata/v4.0/errata03/os/odata-v4.0-errata03-os.zip
  10. OData JSON Format Version 4.0:http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata-json-format/v4.0/errata03/os/odata-json-format-v4.0-errata03-os.zip
  11. OData Atom Format Version 4.0:http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata-atom-format/v4.0/cs02/odata-atom-format-v4.0-cs02.zip
  12. What’s New in OData Version 4.0:http://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/new-in-odata/v4.0/cn01/new-in-odata-v4.0-cn01.zip

Expository Work Produced by the Committee

  • Webinar: "OData at OASIS" recorded 11 July 2012
  • OData video delivered by Sanjay Patil of SAP at the OASIS Cloud Standards Lightning Rounds, July 2012

External Resources

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