Election Data Format

Assessment

• Open License Yes

• Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

  Specification is meant to be general enough to cover broad aspects of elections (so that it can be applied across jurisdictions). Standard focuses on the transparency of electoral process (rather than commitment to the automation of election results)

• Stakeholder Participation No

  Standard specifies that election data must come from a primary, authoritative source

• Consensus-Based Governance Yes

  The standard is posted to GitHub. Anyone can contribute feedback to the issue tracker

• Extensions Yes

  Future extensions to the standard include geographic information about polling stations, a controlled vocabularies specification, and metadata about political parties and politicians

• Human Readable Yes

  Vocabulary for the specification is based on definitions specified from the ACE project

• Machine Readable Yes

  Information stored in election data tables. Tabular format is meant to link to the graph based format. This format expresses statistical data and reference data (including geographic and vocabulary references). Model utilizes RDF Data Cube schema. Some fields in the files have controlled vocabularies

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

  The standard requires that the data is made available on a timely basis, e.g. updated immediately after the election results are announced

• Metadata No

  According to the standard's documentation, 'metadata made available and the formats provided are outside the scope of this specification'