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    apache/ossie

    Apache Ossie, industry wide specification effort to standardize how we exchange semantic metadata across analytics, AI and BI platforms, providing a vendor neutral, single source of truth for semantic data

    backend
    metadata
    semantic
    Python
    Apache-2.0
    2.6K stars
    344 forks
    2.6K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 2, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    The project lists 81 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #2 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 12, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Standardizes semantic metadata exchange across analytics, AI, and BI platforms using a vendor-neutral JSON/YAML specification.
    • Ensures consistent, interoperable semantic data definitions to eliminate discrepancies across diverse tools and platforms.
    • Use for unifying KPI definitions across multiple business intelligence and analytics tools to maintain data consistency.
    • Use for enabling AI agents to produce reliable outputs grounded in consistent business logic from standardized semantic models.
    • Use for converting and validating semantic models between different formats like dbt, GoodData, Polaris, and Salesforce.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
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    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Apache Ossie is a collaborative, open-source effort dedicated to standardizing and streamlining semantic model exchange and utilization across the diverse array of tools and platforms within the data analytics, AI, and BI ecosystem. Our shared vision is to establish a common, vendor-agnostic semantic model specification, promoting unparalleled interoperability, efficiency, and collaboration among all participants. By providing a single, consistent source of truth, this vendor-agnostic standard ensures that your data's definitions and value remain consistent as they are interchanged between AI agents, BI platforms, and all other tools in your ecosystem, eliminating inconsistencies across your different tools.

    Apache Ossie was formerly known as Open Semantic Interchange (OSI).

    Apache Ossie provides a single JSON- and YAML-based specification that any tool can read and write, addressing the semantic fragmentation common across today's data stack: the same KPI defined differently across tools, teams spending significant effort manually reconciling definitions, and AI agents producing unreliable outputs grounded in inconsistent business logic.

    Excerpt from the apache/ossie README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 16: +6

    +770 stars over 83 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +6 on Aug 16.

    Forks

    344+120

    Open issues

    65-35

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