The standard

bitmark is an open standard. The bitmark Association, a non-profit association with its seat in Zurich, governs the language; its members and working groups shape it.

Who does what

• The language, with its bit types, tags, cards and rules, is defined by the bitmark Association. These docs are its reference.
• The reference parser is offered by Get More Brain for the community, as open source under the ISC licence; see The parser. Where a question is open, its behaviour decides, and these docs are built from its releases.
• Other implementations in tools and platforms are welcome.

How the standard changes

A change starts as a proposal in the public bitmark-improvement-proposals repository, usually prepared by a working group. It becomes part of the standard once two independent implementations support it. Pages about features that are proposed but not yet in a released parser say so under their title.

Working groups

Each working group owns one part of the standard: a section of the bit passport, part of the core, or the vocabulary of one field.

Group	Owns	Part
Rights & Licensing Committee	Rights, licences and what AI may do with the content	Passport
Glass Box	Transparency under the EU AI Act	Passport
a11y	The accessibility claim in the passport and the evidence in every bit	Passport and core
Paper Trail	Origin, editions and translations	Passport
Who Reads This?	Audience: language, age, level	Passport
WG-ID	Identity, the Rosetta Map and versions	Core
The Shall Society	Norms and standards: provisions, structure, national deviations	Field vocabulary
Level 4	SMART standards and machine-interpretable content	Field vocabulary
Pinpoint	Legal and citable content	Field vocabulary
Methods & Materials	Scientific papers	Field vocabulary
Docs-as-Code	Technical documentation	Field vocabulary
Quiz Night	Learning and quizzes	Field vocabulary

Anyone can take part: join a working group through the bitmark Association.