OGC Specification Building Blocks

This is the documentation for the OGC Building Blocks framework, a specification component packaging approach.

This supports the FAIR principles for specifications - with every specification being a component that can be re-used. For more discussion see Design Principles

Building Blocks can be used to add documentation to existing specification components, or to design and assemble reusable specification components cost-effectively using a test-driven approach.

Building Blocks are technology-agnostic - i.e. may be various types - however an emphasis is support for semantically annotated JSON schemas for use in OGC API definitions.

Building Blocks can be organised into registers for convenience, each repository creating a local register that can be integrated with other application domain registers.

Published OGC API specifications are, or will be, described in the register of OGC Specification Building blocks. The framework can be used for development of specifications or publication of specifications in your own application domain. The framework supports transparent federation of Building Block registers.

The framework supports testing of examples, and validation using rules inherited from other Building Blocks that are re-used (by aggregation or profiling) to create compatible specifications for specific applications.

For more details consider using the Tutorial example - a step-wise introduction to various features and configuration details for Building Blocks.