ODS Open Data Standards Directory
All standards

Elections Election ResultsHardware

NIST Election Results Common Data Format

by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

The standard establishes a XML schema for the export and import of data from and to election process devices. The standard establishes a comprehensive UML model to map out and define the components of the general election process

Website Documentation Example Contact

Assessment

  • Open License Yes

  • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions No

  • Stakeholder Participation No

  • Consensus-Based Governance No

    The standard hosts an issue tracker on GitHub

  • Extensions No

  • Human Readable Yes

    The standard uses object identifiers and links elements within the electoral system. Standard also includes a glossary to ensure compliance and uniformity during implementation

  • Machine Readable Yes

    XML - based import/export format for election devices that handles the data. Schema is organized by elements and their attributes of the election process. Sub-elements refer to elements that are nested within other elements. Schema is in XSD format

  • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No

  • Metadata No

GovEx — Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence Geothink

A project of the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University, with Geothink / McGill University and the open data community.