Open Exchange Architecture
A foundation for interoperable, structured scientific content.
Core Capabilities
Structured for Science¶
OXA enables documents to be more than just text. It supports live code, dynamic data bindings, and interactive cells directly in the schema.
Text, math, figures, code
Rich formatting across all scientific mediums, ensuring mathematical rigor and visual clarity across platforms.
Computational Articles
OXA enables documents to be more than just text. It supports live code, dynamic data bindings, and interactive cells directly in the schema.
Authors, Institutions, & Funding
First-class support for attribution, institutional affiliations, and funding sources metadata.
Hierarchical structures
A recursive JSON model that maps the complexity of journals, articles, sections, and fragments.
Try it out
Interactive Demo¶
Explore the OXA schema in action — edit, transform, and visualize structured scientific content.
Design Principles¶
Open by design
Built on community standards and open source values to ensure no single entity controls the scientific narrative.
Composable
Treat every document part as a reusable component that can be remixed across different environments.
Interoperable
Bridge the gap between formats — Markdown, LaTeX, JATS, At-Proto, and more — through a unified exchange format.
Extensible
Adapt the architecture to your needs with custom node types while maintaining backward compatibility.
Typed & linked
Every node is strongly typed and uniquely addressable, enabling graph-based scientific exploration.
Modular
Independent packages for validation, rendering, and transformation allow for lightweight implementations.
Trusted and Built By
Supporters¶
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OXA is an open community specification stewarded by the Continuous Science Foundation. Join our Discord to contribute, ask questions, or start building on the architecture today.
Recent Articles
OXA now defines an AT Protocol lexicon for publishing scientific documents to the Atmosphere. The `pub.oxa.*` namespace lets documents live in any Personal Data Server, making scientific content user-owned, portable, and discoverable alongside social interactions, feeds, and moderation infrastructure.
AI can read anything, but without shared standards it only reinforces PDF-era incentives. The interfaces we build shape what science becomes, and transforming scientific culture requires modular, structured, contextual foundations beneath every interface.
Scientific communication still privileges narrative over utility, while the data, code, protocols, and computation that underpin modern research are pushed into hard-to-access supplements. Rowan Cockett introduces the Open Exchange Architecture (OXA), an emerging, community-driven standard designed to unbundle research from its paper-shaped container and expose the rich evidence underneath it.