Open Standard · Apache 2.0 · Free Forever
Every student record in India.
One open data language.
ADS is India's open specification for student records — administrative, academic and non-academic. It defines how each record is structured, what fields it carries, and how it moves between schools, universities, ERP systems and regulatory bodies.
One open way to record what happens in Indian education, so that every system reads the same record the same way. ADS is a specification, not a platform — any school system can implement it, any government portal can adopt it, any university can read it.
Administrative
Enrolment, identity, transfers and the institutional record.
Academic
Board and university results, credits and transcripts.
Non-academic
Sport, arts, debate and other recognised achievement.
One record that travels with you.
- —Everything you do is recorded once, in a form every institution can read.
- —No re-submitting the same certificates at every application.
- —What you achieve outside the classroom is carried alongside your marks, not lost.
Record once. Reuse everywhere.
School
Structured records for transfers, boards and NEP 2020 Holistic Progress Cards — without inventing a format for each one.
University
Read what an applicant submits without manual reinterpretation, and check every claim against the authority that governs it.
Publish results once, in a form that carries.
- —Organisers and federations publish machine-readable results, not PDFs and notice boards.
- —Placement and participation reach each student's record without re-entry.
- —Terms trace to the governing body — World Athletics, FIDE, Sangeet Natak Akademi and others.
One specification instead of one integration per customer.
- —Build against a stable, public schema rather than per-institution mappings.
- —Import and export cleanly between any two systems that implement it.
- —Open licence, no vendor lock-in, no fee — now or later.
The outcome — a student's full record becomes portable, verifiable and machine-readable across every system that needs it, without any single organisation owning it.