What it is
Public: from open or licensed sources, shared by everyone who subscribes.
- Example: Nordic Star left Rotterdam for Gdańsk
- Standard envelope; a typed payload schema comes with its first source
- Not collected yet: ask for it and it moves up the list
Example event, standard format
{
"specversion": "1.0",
"id": "evt_01M5EV0NM0JT4VMHSM236YQJEF",
"type": "vessel.departed",
"source": "/sources/examples/vessel",
"time": "2026-10-21T09:00:00Z",
"observed_at": "2026-10-21T09:00:42Z",
"dataschema": "https://schemas.worldsignals.dev/vessel.departed/1.json",
"datacontenttype": "application/json",
"visibility": "public",
"country": "NL",
"place": {
"locality": "Rotterdam",
"lat": 51.95,
"lon": 4.14,
"precision": "locality"
},
"subject": {
"kind": "vessel",
"name": "Nordic Star",
"ids": {
"imo": "9765432"
},
"ws_id": "ent_01M5EV0NM0KV4PJFKCXWM6AFH9"
},
"entities": [
{
"kind": "port",
"role": "port_of_call",
"name": "Rotterdam",
"ids": {
"unlocode": "NLRTM"
}
}
],
"title": "Nordic Star left Rotterdam for Gdańsk",
"data": {
"vessel_type": "tanker",
"destination": "PLGDN"
},
"provenance": {
"source_id": "example",
"source_name": "Example data",
"url": "https://example.com/worldsignals/vessel.departed",
"licence": "Example only, not a real record",
"method": "example"
},
"confidence": 0.95,
"personal_data": false,
"revision": 1,
"tags": [
"example"
]
}Give your agents something to notice
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