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Choose the path that best matches what you want to do with ORD.

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Understand ORD

Learn why ORD exists, how publishing and discovery work, and what the protocol enables.

Read the introduction →Visual walkthrough

Explore the presentation

Follow the ORD story as an interactive slide deck and open focused deep dives when you need more detail.

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Adopt ORD as a provider

Choose an implementation approach, expose ORD documents, validate the metadata, and connect an aggregator.

Read the adoption guide →Answers

Browse common questions

Find practical guidance about related standards, libraries, deployment models, and metadata updates.

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Tools and examples

• Browse the example ORD files or inspect a running provider in the ORD Reference Application.
• Use the schema explorer and the @open-resource-discovery/specification package when implementing or validating documents.
• Read the complete specification when you need normative requirements and detailed concept guidance.
• Watch the introduction videos or ask the ORD NotebookLM for another way into the material.
• Report documentation or specification problems in the GitHub repository.