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.
Australian Landscape Architecture Foundation · open metadata standard · v1.0.0 draft
A community-governed, free metadata standard for Australian landscape projects — plants, site context, sustainability, and Connection to Country — that any BIM, CAD, or GIS tool can read.
We're inviting practices, universities, councils, and Traditional Owner organisations to shape v1 of the standard. Joining doesn't affect your independence, and there's no cost to begin.
We'll only use your email to contact you about the Foundation standard — no marketing, no sharing.
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.
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.
The v1 schema, validator, and documentation are published under permissive open licences so any practice, council, or software vendor can adopt them without lock-in:
Landscape Archive application code, connectors, and canonical species datasets remain under separate commercial terms. The Foundation standard is explicitly carved out from commercial IP.
The Foundation is a not-for-profit steward of the open standard — not a software vendor. The draft charter encodes four mechanisms:
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.
v1 JSON field names retain a legacy federation prefix for compatibility; Foundation branding applies to governance and public documentation.