Terminology, Conventions, Standards¶

DRAFT Specification / Work in Progress

This portion of the BTAA GIN site, our GeoBTAA API, and our Linked Data offerings are a WORK IN PROGRESS. Please reach out if you have questions or wish to participate in bringing these resources to public release.

Terminology¶

Resource – An individual OpenGeoMetadata Aardvark + GeoBTAA Metadata Profile JSON object, document, item, or record.
Service Document – The JSON description of server capabilities (/v1/service).
Identifier – The canonical URI‑safe string that uniquely identifies a record.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) – A protocol that enables API responses to declare behavioral context using profile URIs. These profiles point to machine-readable documents describing how to interpret or interact with the resource, especially useful for generic agents, AI tools, or validators.

Conventions¶

All date/time values MUST be RFC 3339 (ISO 8601) strings.
All numeric coordinates MUST be WGS‑84 (EPSG 4326) decimal degrees.