Documentation

GRCSchema.org publishes the JSON-LD structures that let governance, risk, compliance, and security data travel between systems without losing its meaning or its provenance. Every shape documented here resolves to a public, citable address. Your vocabulary stays yours. The structure is what we share.

Here's how the documentation is organized, and where to start.

Style Guide – the conventions every schema follows: naming, casing, standard elements like @context, @id, and CoreMetaData, how versioning works, and the request patterns (client reference IDs, paginated lists) that keep integrations honest. If you're building against the schemas, start here and the rest of the documentation will make twice the sense in half the time.

Accepted Properties – the shapes that made it through review and are safe to build on: hierarchy items and the identity-disambiguation structures. The registry at grcschema.org/vocabularies is the authoritative list; these pages are the commentary.

Proposed Properties – shapes still in the argument stage. Read them. Poke holes in them.

Reference – the longer reads: why a common data format matters, how we work, and how mapping decisions get made, defended, and challenged.

Introduction to JSON – for the practitioner who never wanted to learn JSON-LD and now has to. No judgment. It's shorter than you fear.

If you want to propose a schema or contribute structures of your own, reach out through the contact page and we'll get you started.

And if you have any questions, please feel free to email our site admin HERE.