Fiscal Data Package

Assessment

• Open License Yes

• Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

  Specification is an extension of the Tabular Data Package. It consists of CSV data files and metadata descriptor file in JSON format. Standard utilizes universal components so everyone may access it. The aggregated expense category requires classification according to the United Nations' Statistics Division's Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG). Aggregated revenue data requires classification according to the IMF's Government Finance Statistic Manual 2001 (GFSFM). Classifications according to these institutions are widely implemented and broad enough to be applied across national governments

• Stakeholder Participation Yes

  Standard is in consultation with budget data community. Adapts input from private sector and nonprofit organizations

• Consensus-Based Governance Yes

  Can follow development of standard on the 'issue' tracker posted to Github. Contributions from the community will be overseen by a member of Open Knowledge International

• Extensions Yes

  OpenSpending Data Package

• Human Readable Yes

  Specification uses metadata, field identifiers and semantics

• Machine Readable Yes

  Standard uses tabular form. Data stored in CSV format. The CSV's structuration consists of a data table in which each tuple represents a single budget item. The first tuple of the data file signifies the required fields for the appropriate dataset type in addition to the required fields for all the dataset categories (dataset type is notated under metadata descriptor file)

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

  The standard dictates that the data be updated every year

• Metadata Yes

  Metadata included in the required JSON file descriptor, datapackage.json. The datapackage.json is a metadata descriptor file that contextualizes the data and gives insight to the data file structure and budget attributes. The metadata object for each data file in the resource array has to contain the specific attributes related to budget data type (i.e. currency, whether the data reflects revenue or expenditure, the data's granularity, and status within the budget cycle)