LBCS standard intends to categorize dimension or urban space and provide information about land use. Standard breaks up classification into Activity, Function, Structure Type, Site Development Character, and Ownership

Every year the FBI releases the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), which compiles crime data from law enforcement agencies across the US. The NIBRS was created to facilitate the compilation of the UCR by standardizing the formats of the crime data.

The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is a simple but general format for exchanging all-hazard emergency alerts and public warnings over all kinds of networks. CAP allows a consistent warning message to be disseminated simultaneously over many different warning systems, thus increasing warning effectiveness while simplifying the warning task. CAP also facilitates the detection of emerging patterns in local warnings of various kinds, such as might indicate an undetected hazard or hostile act.

The Ed-Fi Data Standard builds a secure bridge between disparate data systems, empowering state agencies, districts and educators with up-to-date, actionable insights so they can better understand the individual needs of every student in their classroom. The Ed-Fi Data Standard serves as the foundation for enabling interoperability among secure data systems and contains a Unifying Data Model designed to capture the meaning and inherent structure in the most important information in the K-12 education enterprise.

xBRL consists of formats for different kinds of business documents, such as financial statements, performance reports, or compliance reports. The standard formats allow the documents to be transmitted and parsed between entities easily

Akoma Ntoso (Architecture for Knowledge-Oriented Management of African Normative Texts using Open Standards and Ontologies) introduces common structures and ontologies for parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents. These include parliamentary debates, committee briefs, and the entire life-cycle of a piece of legislation

TMDD is a standard for traffic management centers to communicatie between themselves to cooperate in the management of roads and incidents

WaterML is a standard model for representing water observation time series

Cities use TCIP to structure their real-time public transit data

Data format for publishing bulk datasets of service requests; datasets that would otherwise be too bulky for an API request.

Vocabulario para la representación de datos sobre tráfico is an ontology for describing traffic data and traffic measurement infrastructure. Should be used in conjunction with VPDA - Streets

A specification for building and construction permit data. Comprises of basic required fields and optional dataset fields. Data about building permits are a good proxy for economic activity. Therefore, more accessible data about permits informs data users about the well-being (or lack of well-being) of a community. In addition, opening up this information helps establish trust between governing bodies and the public

Simple, hashtag-based standard to improve data sharing during humanitarian crises. Tags are added to a spreadsheet as a second row underneath headers, providing a standardized classification of the column's contents. Maintained by UN OCHA, with participation from a group of agencies, NGOs, and donors.

Open 311's Inquiry API is a standardized protocol for information about public spaces and services. The Open311 Inquiry API consists of a set of content related to the services provided by the city, a city facilities list (concerning meaning not GIS, although there will be geospatial attributes for the facilities), and a RSS feed that contains information about daily status of public services and facilities.

GTFS Realtime is an extension to GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) that allows public transportation agencies to provide application developers with real-time updates about the locations, estimated arrival times and other important information regarding transit vehicles.

OpenAdress Specification builds an open resource for geocoding at the global level

Vocabulario para la representación de lugares, zonas e itinerarios de interés turístico is an ontology for representing tourist attractions and accessibility. This includes classes such as access mode, type of institution, and maintenance cost

The standard supports the end to end process of the election system. The intent of the standard is to 'develop a standard for the structured interchange among hardware, software, and service providers who engage in any aspect of providing election or voter services to public or private organizations...' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Markup_Language). This is a much more comprehensive schema than the other election data standards observed in this list. In addition, this standard engages in high level election processes

Standard format for handling public transportation and geographic data. Developed by Google and the TriMet public transportation agency

Specification indicates voter precincts. The intent is for information disseminators to utilize the schema to provide all citizens with the information they need to cast a ballot

Vocabulario para la representación de direcciones postales en España is an ontology for describing address locations in Spain.

Vocabulario para la representación de equipamientos is an ontology for describing public infrastructure such as parking facilities and their accessibility

Vocabulario para la representación de locales y zonas comerciales is an ontology for describing local businesses, shopping areas, and their accessibility

Represent is an open database of elected officials and districts in Canada. Open North provides a template to be filled out and uploaded on municipal websites. Open North has an API for finding representatives and districts by geographic location.

A standard for publishing local results of English elections, including Parish, District/Borough, County, and Parliamentary elections and by-elections. Mayoral and European Parliament elections are not supported in the current version of the schema.

This application is highly detailed and allows you to customize the data yourself in order to visualize NYC budget, expenditure, revenue, and contract data. The application has information about W/MBE (Women/Minority Business Enterprise). It was based on the USASpending.gov model (for federal budget and expense information). Can export the raw data through API's controllers

The IATI standard is a framework for publishing information on development cooperation activities in a timely, comprehensive and forward-looking manner. All published data should be structured and comparable

Socrata Open Budget application requires Operating Expense and Operating Revenue datasets to match the Operating Data Schema

ATDIS includes a schema for describing planning applications. An API format is also specified for feeds of the database of planning applications

Vocabulario para la representación de eventos de una agenda cultural is an ontology for describing local touristic or commercial events. It is cross-referenced with standard Event vocabulary

The House Facts data standard is a uniform format for reporting government data on the operation, safety, and performance of residential buildings.

Specification standardizes US election data at the state level

Vocabulario para la representación de medios de transporte públicos is an ontology for describing transportation infrastructure such as bus stops, metro lines, and ferry terminals

Vocabulario para la representación de un callejero is an ontology for describing municipal streets in Spain. It is being developed in conjunction with VPDA - Spanish Postal Addresses and VPDA - Spanish Administrative Land Units

This standard indicates boundaries for zoning

Calidad del aire is an ontology for describing air quality in a city. Classes include carbon monoxide, wind direction, ozone, and temperature

The standard establishes a XML schema for the export and import of data from and to election process devices. The standard establishes a comprehensive UML model to map out and define the components of the general election process

Standardizes annual government budget by revenue and expenditure. These categories exist at the transactional or aggregated levels.

Provides real-time information for bikeshare systems, such as number of available docks or bikes per station. Apps such as Transit can easily incorporate bikeshare station locations and statuses across participating cities

A CSV template for publishing the details of licences required in order to carry out retail sale of alcohol or the provision of regulated entertainment or the provision of late night refreshment. This includes any location where such activities take place including a building, a moveable structure, an open space, a vehicle or vessel.

The Local Government Transparency Code requires that governments publish details of any expenditure exceeding £500. The Local Government Association developed a common format for local councils to publish spending data, providing a data template as well as a standardized schema for local governments to use

Socrata Open Budget application requires Capital Budget datasets to match the Capital Budget Schema.

A CSV template for describing details of toilet services where local government is responsible for cleaning and maintenance. Details include location, accessibility, hours of operation, and additional amenities

The Local Government Transparency Code requires that governments publish details of contracts, commissioned activity, purchase orders, and other agreements with a value exceeding £5,000. The Local Government Association developed a common format for local councils to publish contracts, providing a data template as well as a standardized schema for local governments to use

Vocabulario para la representación de subvenciones is an ontology for describing subsidies granted by municipalities. It extends VPDA - Local Budget and uses common ontologies such as Event and Place

360Giving aims to help UK grant makers and philanthropists to publish their grant information online in an easy to use way

Vocabulario para la representación de datos sobre presupuestos de entidades locales specifies vocabulary for local budget data in Spain. Content of the standard includes both government income and expenses

SIRI is a data format that enables the server to exchange real-time information about public transit schedules and arrival times. SIRI is now interoperable with GTFS-Realtime services

Vocabulario para la representación de unidades territoriales en España is an ontology for describing the types of territories that are found in Spain. This includes counties, municipal districts, and census tracts. All classes are related to pre-defined classes from extended vocabularies

MAIT was created to solve the problem of exchanging incdents between agency control rooms (emergency dispatch). In line with the UK Government's Open Standards Principles, MAIT is a standard for sharing data between local emergency services in the UK

Vocabulario para la representación de medios de transporte is an ontology for describing transportation infrastructure as well as political entities such as villages and other administrative areas

Vocabulario para la representación de alojamientos is an ontology for representing lodging information in Spain (hotels, hostels, etc). This vocabulary should be used in conjunction with VPDA - Spanish Postal Addresses and VPDA - Spanish Administrative Land Units

The Open Trail System Specification (OpenTrails) defines a simple, common format for public trails and associated geographic information. OpenTrails allows public land agencies to publish their trail data and developers to write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way.

Open511 intends to make road event data lightweight and accessible to the public. The specification intends to facilitate communication among transportation agencies and other government bodies. Open511 format provides a level of transparency, interoperability, and simplicity that exceeds current intelligent transportation systems. The API retrieves the data in XML format

Vocabulario para la representación de procedimientos administrativos ofrecidos por un ayuntamiento is an ontology for describing procedures, documents, and regulations published by local Spanish governments

Specification utilized for elections at various levels (local, provincial, federal). It has four main tabular formats: contests, choices, results, and voting data. Contests documents metadata

Standard specifies zoning (GIS) data for jurisdictions across the state of Massachusetts

A CSV template for publishing the details of construction permit applications to English local councils.

Contaminacion acustica is an ontology for describing the data obtained by acoustic sensors in cities in Spain. Classes also include derivative values of measurements such as average noise level

SDMX is an ISO standard designed to describe statistical data and metadata, normalise their exchange, and improve their efficient sharing across statistical and similar organisations. It provides an integrated approach to facilitating statistical data and metadata exchange, enabling interoperable implementations within and between systems concerned with the exchange, reporting and dissemination of statistical data and their related meta-information. SDMX documentation consists of technical standards (including the Information Model), statistical guidelines, and an IT architecture

International standard to make data about government contracts more transparent to the public

SOCS is a standard for police agencies to publish public crime data uniformly. It requires fields such as date and time (in ISO format), locale, and incident type

API standardizes service requests, eases coordination, and encourages accountability between the government and the public

Digital standard data and API structure for exchanging waste service data

OWRS is a machine-readable format for specifying and sharing water rate information. OWRS is designed for analysts, economists, and software developers interested in analyzing water rates. OWRS attempts to fully encode a water utility's rate structure and pricing schedules in a form that is easy to store, share, modify and apply programmatically.

HSDS is a format for exchanging data regarding health, human, and social services. Its purpose is to facilitate the exchange of resource directory data across many information channels, in order to make it easier to share, find, and use information about the resources available to people in need.

Ontology for government votes, actions, and structures. The scope of this standard includes persons, organizations, membership (to a party), government posts, legislative motions, speeches and more. The standard was designed as a simple and transferable vocabulary for sharing international government open data

Cities use LIVES to publish food inspection information about any restaurant listed on Yelp or any website that has restaurant listings

The Local Government Transparency Code requires that local authorities publish details of all their fixed (land and building) assets. This includes all properties owned or used by local government, including those where contractual work takes place, public parking facilities, and social housing.