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 # backend-data-contracts
 
-This repository is the single source of truth for all schema definitions used across the Owlboard backend communication and storage services.  Language specific types are generated here and published to the Gitea package repository linked to the repo.
+This repository is the single source of truth for all schemata definitions used across the Owlboard backend communication and storage services.  Language specific types are generated here and published to the Gitea package repository linked to the repo.
 
 ## Directory Structure