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The GET service definition method of the API provide description for the service being requested by adding metadata=yes to it response","recorded":"2017-07-12","verified":"Yes","provider_list":"Toronto|Giessen|Bonn|Bruhl|Cologne|Rostock|Siegburg|Helsinki|Lamia|Baltimore|Bloomington, IN|Boston|Brookline, MA|Chicago|Columbus, IN|Grand Rapids|Greenwich, UK|Lisbon|Ottawa|Peoria, IL|Philadelphia|Quebec City|San Francisco|Surrey, BC|Washington, DC|Zaragoza|Zurich","tags":"No information"},{"name":"Waste Service Standards","category":"Services","subcategory":"Sanitation","description":"Digital standard data and API structure for exchanging waste service data","license":"MIT","updated":"2016-03-01","version":"1","stage_in_development":"Completed","documentation":"http://communitiesuk.github.io/waste-service-standards/","website":"http://communitiesuk.github.io/waste-service-standards/","contact":"mailto:paul@folklabs.com","example":"https://github.com/communitiesuk/waste-service-standards/tree/master/examples","publisher":"Local Digital Coalition","publisher_reputation":"The Local Digital Coalition is a publicly funded entity that helps local municipalities adopt collaborative digital standards to increase efficiency","consumers":"Low. Takeup has not been significant due to lack of resources","apps":"One demo app","open":"Yes","transferability":"Yes","transferability_rationale":"Specification is general, but address format may be specific to UK addresses","stakeholder_participation":"Yes","stakeholder_participation_rationale":"5 UK councils participated in development. 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The CaDC has pioneered a new 501c3 data infrastructure non-profit and provides analytical tools and dashboards that are developed using freely available open source tools.","consumers":"All examples shown by CaDC are within California","apps":"CaDC has built several tools available on their GitHub page that work with the rate bills. RateParser is an R package that has the ability to interpret OWRS files and calculate water bills. The package is designed to simplify the work of analysts and economists interested in calculating water bills under a variety of rate structures. RateComparison is a software program that compares the revenue, equity, and demand implications of different water rate structures.","open":"Yes","transferability":"Yes","transferability_rationale":"OWRS is a general structure that supports many different types of water rates (e.g. tiered versus budget-based) with no regionally specific attributes","stakeholder_participation":"Yes","stakeholder_participation_rationale":"The CaDC is made up of stakeholders from California utilities sector","consensus_government":"Yes","consensus_government_rationale":"Contributions can be made to the OWRS and other CaDC project on their GitHub page","extensions":"Yes","extensions_indicators":"Extensions only permissible in the metadata, where agency information is located.  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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.","license":"Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International","updated":"2017-03-01","version":"1.1","stage_in_development":"Completed","documentation":"https://openreferral.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/","website":"http://www.openreferral.org/","contact":"mailto:info@openreferral.org","example":"https://github.com/openreferral/sample-data/tree/master/simple","publisher":"Open Referral","publisher_reputation":"Open Referral is an independent community of practice of people working to improve the flow of information about resources available for people in need.","consumers":"Used primarily by nonprofit organizations and their technology vendors, with some initial adoption by governments and a considerable amount of political support from governments.","apps":"Link-SF Ohana Helpsteps Friendly","open":"Yes","transferability":"Yes","transferability_rationale":"Open Referral emerged in the US but addresses a nearly-universal problem, with several implementations in other countries already underway.","stakeholder_participation":"Yes","stakeholder_participation_rationale":"No information","consensus_government":"Yes","consensus_government_rationale":"No information","extensions":"Yes","extensions_indicators":"Extensions are encouraged for information that is particularly relevant for specific subdomains (such as legal services)","machine_readable":"Yes","machine_readable_rationale":"JSON datapackage, plus emerging API spec","human_readable":"Yes","human_readable_rationale":"Readable JSON","requires_realtime":"Yes","requires_realtime_rationale":"This is a core design requirement for the specification to ensure accuracy of data.","metadata":"No","metadata_rationale":"No information","recorded":"2017-06-23","verified":"Yes","provider_list":"San Mateo County","tags":"No information"},{"name":"Popolo","category":"Legislature","subcategory":"Ontology","description":"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","license":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","updated":"2017-05-27","version":"No information","stage_in_development":"Draft","documentation":"http://www.popoloproject.com/specs/","website":"http://www.popoloproject.com/","contact":"No information","example":"http://www.popoloproject.com/appendices/examples.html","publisher":"James McKinney","publisher_reputation":"James McKinney has contributed to and authored many open data standards. He is prominent in the field of open government data","consumers":"Users include Granicus, mySociety, OpenNorth, Poplus.org, Open Civic Data, and Sunlight Foundation","apps":"No information","open":"Yes","transferability":"Yes","transferability_rationale":"Popolo supports the development of reusable open source components that implement the specifications, making it easier for civic developers to create civic software. Popolo also supports multilingual response with a header specifying languages","stakeholder_participation":"No","stakeholder_participation_rationale":"James McKinney is the only named author of Popolo","consensus_government":"Yes","consensus_government_rationale":"The standard's specification is improved through a consensus process in line with IETF definition","extensions":"Yes","extensions_indicators":"Allows for use of terms outside the specification only where the specification's terms are insufficient","machine_readable":"Yes","machine_readable_rationale":"JSON output documents must validate against provided JSON or JSON-LD schema","human_readable":"Yes","human_readable_rationale":"Different options for serialization, including JSON and XML, have readable attribute names","requires_realtime":"No","requires_realtime_rationale":"No information","metadata":"Yes","metadata_rationale":"Metadata headers required in RDF or JSON-LD document. Reuses DCMI metadata terms, as well as ontologies from W3C, IETF, ISA, GeoNames, OSCA, Bibliographic Framerwork Initiative, and Open Data Institute","recorded":"2017-11-22","verified":"Yes","provider_list":"No information","tags":"No information"},{"name":"Local Inspector Value-entry Specification (LIVES)","category":"Services","subcategory":"Commercial","description":"Cities use LIVES to publish food inspection information about any restaurant listed on Yelp or any website that has restaurant listings","license":"No information","updated":"2015-08-10","version":"2","stage_in_development":"Completed","documentation":"http://www.yelp.com/healthscores","website":"https://www.yelp.ca/healthscores","contact":"https://www.yelp.ca/healthscores","example":"http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/public-health-inspection-data","publisher":"Yelp","publisher_reputation":"Yelp is a multinational company that hosts crowdsourced information about local businesses online. Yelp contributed data and collaborated with municipal bodies in order to develop LIVES","consumers":"Chicago and Boston have plans to roll out the standard soon. The city of Ottawa also used the LIVES specification for their Public Health Inspection data","apps":"No information","open":"Yes","transferability":"Yes","transferability_rationale":"Standards aims to be used widely in cities across America. Can be applied easily across municipalities","stakeholder_participation":"Yes","stakeholder_participation_rationale":"Partnership between public and private sector","consensus_government":"No","consensus_government_rationale":"Doesn't utilize a mailing list or host an issue tracker so that the public can contribute to the standard's development","extensions":"No","extensions_indicators":"No information","machine_readable":"Yes","machine_readable_rationale":"Standard dictates that data should be stored in tabular form. According to this standard, data is stored in  CSVs condensed in a zip file. Business and Inspections CSV files are required. Violations, Feed Info, and Legend CSV files are optional. Business CSV contains information about the business while the Inspections CSV file contains information about inspection history for that establishment. 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The LGA also promotes communication between local government authorities and develops best practices.  LGA standards have been developed in response to the UK's Local Government Transparency Code, which encourages the publication of government data in standardized machine-readable formats.","consumers":"374 District and County Councils are members of the LGA","apps":"LG Inform Plus API. 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We have over 2 million users. ","consumers":"Surfrider Foundation - Blue Water Task Force","apps":"Swim Guide ","open":"Yes","transferability":"Yes","transferability_rationale":"The data interchange format for publishing records that are compliant with this specification is JSON. Due to broad platform and development library support, JSON is increasingly becoming the de facto standard format for data exchange on the internet. Records can be processed in environments ranging from a simple web browser to native mobile devices to a complex clusters of dedicated servers.","stakeholder_participation":"Yes","stakeholder_participation_rationale":"No information","consensus_government":"No","consensus_government_rationale":"No information","extensions":"No","extensions_indicators":"No information","machine_readable":"Yes","machine_readable_rationale":"No information","human_readable":"Yes","human_readable_rationale":"No information","requires_realtime":"Yes","requires_realtime_rationale":"No information","metadata":"Yes","metadata_rationale":"No information","recorded":"2018-06-28","verified":"No","provider_list":"No information","tags":"No information"}]}