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Waste Service Standards

by Local Digital Coalition

Digital standard data and API structure for exchanging waste service data

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Assessment

  • Open License Yes

  • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

    Specification is general, but address format may be specific to UK addresses

  • Stakeholder Participation Yes

    5 UK councils participated in development. Standard is now managed by a coalition group

  • Consensus-Based Governance Yes

    Documentation and Samples are on GitHub, but there appears to be only one contributor

  • Extensions Yes

    Ontology allows for additional terms, and related software projects such as report-a-missed-bin have ben undertaken by participating municipalities

  • Human Readable Yes

    API specification is in RAML format

  • Machine Readable Yes

    API specification is in RAML format

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

    Specifies last_collection event as well as next scheduled collection

  • Metadata Yes

    Specification also includes a structure for addresses, which uses the Land Registry BS7666 type

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