Operating Budget Schema

Assessment

• Open License Yes

• Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

  The schema's documentation is publicly available. Video tutorials and web articles discuss how municipalities can adopt the schema and update their datasets so that Socrata's Open Budget product works

• Stakeholder Participation No

  Socrata developed the standard privately

• Consensus-Based Governance No

  No way for public and interested parties to contribute to the development of the schema

• Extensions No

• Human Readable Yes

  Specification uses metadata, field identifiers and semantics

• Machine Readable Yes

  Two separate datasets (Operating Expenses and Operating Revenues) have to be organized into flat-files. Some fields for the data are required and some are optional. The data is not normalized.

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

  The standard dictates that the data should be updated every year

• Metadata Yes

  Socrata recommends to include a column in the datasets to describe the data, but it is not required.