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You can find examples and some tools to experiment with implementing the standard in the document “ORDS Examples”.

## Interpretation of requirement language:
ORDS uses the following terminology for requirement levels:
* MUST / SHALL – mandatory for compliance
* SHOULD – recommended; deviations should be justified
* MAY – optional

This aligns with RFC 2119 requirement definitions.

## ORDS Classes:

There is currently only one class defined in the vocabulary. All regulatory documents described by this property are expected to be members of this class.
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| --- | --- |
| URI | <http://purl.org/dc/terms/format> |
| Label | Format |
| Definition | Format of the document, e.g. PDF, HTML |
| Definition | File type or medium of the document, e.g. PDF, XML |
| Domain | <https://www.gov.uk/def/ords/regulatorDocument> |
| Range | <http://purl.org/dc/terms/MediaType> |
| Implementation Notes | This should be the [Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) media type](https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml) of the document, e.g. “application/pdf”. |
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