Selling plants & families
The open standard is open and free. Landscape Archive and other vendors can still sell Revit families, shop packs, and Library subscriptions — commerce sits in the implementation layer, not in the public vocabulary.
Reference adoption path
- Download the open pack — the schema manifest lists JSON modules, examples, and crosswalks. No login required.
- Validate an example — open the reference validator with the NSW coastal schoolyard 185 bundle.
- Cite in one deliverable — add the procurement sentence from landscapearchive.org/adopt to a studio brief, RFQ, or methods section.
Interim stewardship — The Landscape Archive Foundation is not yet incorporated. The specification and reference tooling are public infrastructure; this is not an ISO standard claim.
Recently published
- International founding alliance (draft) — charter consultation for practices, universities, public bodies, and protocol authorities worldwide. Read on landscapearchive.org
- Built environment export profiles — IFC property sets, GeoJSON civic registries, USD metadata sidecars, and spreadsheet crosswalks with JSON schemas and worked examples below.
- Awards data architecture — how category rubrics reference the field registry and interchange profiles. Read the awards framing
Draft governance and consultation only — The Landscape Archive Foundation is not yet an incorporated entity.
International founding alliance — draft consultation
Independent organisations worldwide — practices, universities, public bodies, Traditional Owner and Indigenous protocol authorities, nurseries, and implementation partners — are invited to review draft charter language for the open landscape metadata standard. Participation is consultation only: no binding membership, no joint liability, and no obligation to adopt commercial Archive products. Affiliate partner referrals are unrelated.
Contact details submitted through charter consultation are used only for Foundation standard correspondence — not for marketing list sharing.
How it works
- Independent organisations (practices, universities, councils) keep full control of operations.
- The open standard provides shared JSON fields any BIM, CAD, or GIS tool can read.
- Validators check exports locally (browser or CLI); qualifying projects earn a Foundation Approved badge.
- Commercial tools (e.g. The Landscape Archive) implement the standard and may sell BIM assets on top.
See also how the standard works and commercial separation.
Schema modules
Built environment exports
Interchange profiles for architectural (IFC/BIM), civic (GeoJSON/GIS), and real-time (USD) pipelines —
plus spreadsheet crosswalks. These are export bindings of the public field registry,
not separate standards. Schema definitions live under
/schema/built-environment/; worked examples at
/examples/built-environment/.
JSON schemas and validated emitters are the published baseline; native IFC STEP and USD file writers are scheduled for pipeline release.
| Interchange profile | Target format | Purpose | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFC property sets | IFC4 property sets (JSON) | Map botanical and delivery fields to Pset_TLABotanical and environmental indicator subsets. |
MVP |
| GeoJSON civic registry | GeoJSON FeatureCollection | Civic registry — point placement, 2D canopy footprint, taxonomic identity, maintenance fields. | MVP |
| USD metadata sidecar | USD customData sidecar (JSON) | LOD mesh references, seasonal asset paths, and tracking metadata for visualisation pipelines. | MVP |
| Spreadsheet crosswalks | Spreadsheet column mapping | Nursery stock and maintenance headers mapped to canonical field-registry JSON paths for civic stock lists. | Draft |
Worked example: archive-gum.geojson, ifc-pset.json, usd-metadata.json, crosswalk row, TLA-185 bundle (Foundation Approved exemplar). See also awards data architecture alignment.
Independent stewardship
This portal is hosted separately from landscapearchive.com.au, so the community standard
stays neutral while commercial products evolve. The Foundation holds the open schema; vendors compete on implementation quality.
Open source & licence
The 185/169 specifications and schema documentation are published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 — free for attribution, non-commercial reference, without modification. Commercial implementation requires a separate licence from The Landscape Archive Pty Ltd.
- Public standard — CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (licence text · summary · Creative Commons)
- Reference validator — Apache-2.0 where marked (licence text)
- Source of truth — schema portal and landscapearchive.org (public GitHub repository temporarily unavailable)
Landscape Archive application code, connectors, TLA Brain automation, and canonical species datasets remain under separate commercial terms. The Foundation standard layer is explicitly carved out from commercial IP.
How the standard is governed
The Foundation is the intended independent steward of the open standard — not a software vendor. The draft charter encodes four mechanisms:
- Written charter — the constitution every supporter signs.
- Two-tier power split — explicit reserved powers; anything unlisted stays with members.
- Council & voting — representatives vote; super-majority for schema 2.0 and charter changes.
- Independent arbitrator — neutral, binding dispute resolution over the charter.
It starts as an unincorporated working group — no new company — stepping up to an incorporated association only later, and only if it needs to hold assets or take grants.
Downloads
- Project v1
- Botanical asset v1
- Site context v1
- Climate screening v1 (185)
- Site risk v1 (185)
- Sustainability v1
- Cultural context v1
- Project bundle v1 (169)
- Project bundle v1.1 (185)
- JSON-LD context (v1) · legacy alias
- 185 implementation crosswalk
- AASB S2 concept crosswalk
- 169 Revit crosswalk (legacy)
v1 JSON field names retain a legacy federation prefix for compatibility; Foundation branding applies to governance and public documentation.