Popolo

by James McKinney

Ontology for government votes, actions, and structures. The scope of this standard includes persons, organizations, membership (to a party), government posts, legislative motions, speeches and more. The standard was designed as a simple and transferable vocabulary for sharing international government open data

Website Documentation Example

Assessment

Open License Yes
Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

Popolo supports the development of reusable open source components that implement the specifications, making it easier for civic developers to create civic software. Popolo also supports multilingual response with a header specifying languages
Stakeholder Participation No

James McKinney is the only named author of Popolo
Consensus-Based Governance Yes

The standard's specification is improved through a consensus process in line with IETF definition
Extensions Yes

Allows for use of terms outside the specification only where the specification's terms are insufficient
Human Readable Yes

Different options for serialization, including JSON and XML, have readable attribute names
Machine Readable Yes

JSON output documents must validate against provided JSON or JSON-LD schema
Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No
Metadata Yes

Metadata headers required in RDF or JSON-LD document. Reuses DCMI metadata terms, as well as ontologies from W3C, IETF, ISA, GeoNames, OSCA, Bibliographic Framerwork Initiative, and Open Data Institute