360 Giving

Assessment

• Open License Yes

• Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

  Although the intended users of this standard are in the UK, the standard can specify activity in any country, and funding from any source or in any currency. The standard uses ISO codes for countries, currencies, and dates. Some of the geography codes are UK-specific.

• Stakeholder Participation Yes

  The employees and board of directors at 360Giving are all associated with either the Open Data sector or the charity and government funding sector

• Consensus-Based Governance Yes

  Standard and documentation is maintained on GitHub, with many contributors

• Extensions No

  360 Giving is encouraging users to follow a template for the schema, implying that all users should have identical fields

• Human Readable Yes

  Any coded variables in the schema are accompanied by a plaintext description (e.g. ISO codes for currencies)

• Machine Readable Yes

  JSON or CSV format is specified

• Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data Yes

  Grants and donations are one-time events, which are documented individually. Repeat transactions between parties are stored in an organized manner in the GrantNav tool

• Metadata Yes

  The standard uses several standard codes in addition to ISOs, such as an organisation identifier that is specified on their website