The Landscape Archive Foundation
Volunteers
Practical ways to help steward the open TLA-185 specification — documentation, schema review, crosswalks, and community outreach — while the Foundation completes incorporation.
Why volunteer
An open metadata standard only works if practitioners, researchers, and institutions can read, test, and improve it together. Volunteers extend what a small interim working group can maintain on its own.
Contributions are unpaid and optional. They do not confer membership, governance rights, or commercial entitlements — but they do help the public specification stay accurate, legible, and independent of any single vendor.
Ways to contribute
- Schema and documentation review — clarity, examples, and conformance notes on GitHub
- Crosswalk and mapping work — Revit, GIS, nursery, and council exchange profiles
- Truth-telling field trials — documenting how claims are evidenced in real project bundles
- Translation and accessibility — plain-language summaries and screen-reader-friendly docs
- Community outreach — university studios, public-sector briefings, and practitioner roundtables
How to start
The canonical repository is the best entry point for technical contributions. For structured volunteer onboarding, working-group placement, or institutional partnership, contact the interim team first so we can match your skills to published needs.
Until incorporation, volunteer coordination runs through The Landscape Archive Pty Ltd as interim implementation partner.