Local Inspector Value-entry Specification (LIVES)

Assessment

• Open License Yes

• Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

  Standards aims to be used widely in cities across America. Can be applied easily across municipalities

• Stakeholder Participation Yes

  Partnership between public and private sector

• Consensus-Based Governance No

  Doesn't utilize a mailing list or host an issue tracker so that the public can contribute to the standard's development

• Extensions No

• Human Readable Yes

  Standard utilizes human readable identifiers for the data

• Machine Readable Yes

  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. Both required field of business id as unique identifiers

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

  Standard requires data of health inspection within the inspections file

• Metadata Yes

  Feed information' and 'score legend' CSV files act as a form of metadata