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A vocabulary for describing the structure of JSON documents so a validator can check them: which fields exist, which are required, their types and allowed values 1. The templates library publishes one draft 2020-12 schema per governance record, so a record either validates or fails the build.

Developed in
ch. 05, Pattern: Machine-Readable Evidence (OSCAL)
Templates and schemas
Chapters
ch. 05, Patterns
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

6 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

One pattern page uses the term.

  • Evidence record

    The signed, structured record a control writes each time it decides: which control, about which system version, what it decided, against which metric…

  • Machine-readable evidence

    Evidence a machine can query, diff and aggregate (OSCAL artefacts, structured eval results, signed logs), as opposed to screenshots and exported spreadsheets.

  • OSCAL

    The Open Security Controls Assessment Language, a NIST machine-readable format for controls, assessments and evidence, used here as the format for audit-ready…

Sources

  1. [1] JSON Schema Draft 2020-12. JSON Schema. 2022-06-16. https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12 (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). JSON Schema. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/json-schema. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026jsonschema,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{JSON Schema}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/json-schema}
}