House Facts

Assessment

• Open License Yes

• Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

  The House Facts Standard was created by the City of San Francisco with the goal of it becoming a standard for use in other jurisdictions.

• Stakeholder Participation Yes

  Technical working group on Google platform composed of several agencies including The Civic Engine, Code for America, and Socrata

• Consensus-Based Governance No

  An old version of the specification is posted on GitHub. Unclear whether changes made there are relevant

• Extensions No

• Human Readable Yes

  CSV headers are sensibly named, and descriptive documentation is provided

• Machine Readable Yes

  CSV files with standard names and headers are saved in a .zip file

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

  Specifies the date of most recent inspection

• Metadata No