Standards

Assessed “Yes” for:

69 of 69 standards

  • Finance Completed

    360 Giving

    360 Giving

    360Giving aims to help UK grant makers and philanthropists to publish their grant information online in an easy to use way

    • Philanthropy
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Services Draft

    Accommodations

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de alojamientos is an ontology for representing lodging information in Spain (hotels, hostels, etc). This vocabulary should be used in conjunction with VPDA - Spanish Postal Addresses and VPDA - Spanish Administrative Land Units

    • Ontology
    • Commercial
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Environment Draft

    Air Quality

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Calidad del aire is an ontology for describing air quality in a city. Classes include carbon monoxide, wind direction, ozone, and temperature

    • Ontology
    • Air
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Legislature Completed

    Akoma Ntoso

    OASIS

    Akoma Ntoso (Architecture for Knowledge-Oriented Management of African Normative Texts using Open Standards and Ontologies) introduces common structures and ontologies for parliamentary, legislative and judiciary documents. These include parliamentary debates, committee briefs, and the entire life-cycle of a piece of legislation

    • Legislature
    • Metadata
    • Open License: No
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: No
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Buildings Completed

    Application Tracking Data Interchange Specification (ATDIS)

    OpenAustralia Foundation

    ATDIS includes a schema for describing planning applications. An API format is also specified for feeds of the database of planning applications

    • Building Permits
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: No
  • Buildings Draft

    Building & Land Development Specification (BLDS)

    Accela, BuildFax, Buildingeye, Civic Insight, DR-i-VE Decisions, SiteCompli, Socrata, Zillow

    A specification for building and construction permit data. Comprises of basic required fields and optional dataset fields. Data about building permits are a good proxy for economic activity. Therefore, more accessible data about permits informs data users about the well-being (or lack of well-being) of a community. In addition, opening up this information helps establish trust between governing bodies and the public

    • Building Permits
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Finance Completed

    Capital Budget Schema

    Socrata

    Socrata Open Budget application requires Capital Budget datasets to match the Capital Budget Schema.

    • Annual Budget
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Finance Completed

    Checkbook NYC

    REI Systems, NYC Comptroller's Office

    This application is highly detailed and allows you to customize the data yourself in order to visualize NYC budget, expenditure, revenue, and contract data. The application has information about W/MBE (Women/Minority Business Enterprise). It was based on the USASpending.gov model (for federal budget and expense information). Can export the raw data through API's controllers

    • Expenditure
    • Procurement Contracts
    • Annual Budget
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: No
  • Services Draft

    Commerical Zones

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de locales y zonas comerciales is an ontology for describing local businesses, shopping areas, and their accessibility

    • Ontology
    • Commercial
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Services Completed

    Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)

    OASIS

    The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is a simple but general format for exchanging all-hazard emergency alerts and public warnings over all kinds of networks. CAP allows a consistent warning message to be disseminated simultaneously over many different warning systems, thus increasing warning effectiveness while simplifying the warning task. CAP also facilitates the detection of emerging patterns in local warnings of various kinds, such as might indicate an undetected hazard or hostile act.

    • Emergency
    • Open License: No
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Finance Completed

    Contracts

    Local Government Association (LGA)

    The Local Government Transparency Code requires that governments publish details of contracts, commissioned activity, purchase orders, and other agreements with a value exceeding £5,000. The Local Government Association developed a common format for local councils to publish contracts, providing a data template as well as a standardized schema for local governments to use

    • Procurement Contracts
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: No
  • Services Draft

    Cultural Events

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de eventos de una agenda cultural is an ontology for describing local touristic or commercial events. It is cross-referenced with standard Event vocabulary

    • Ontology
    • Commercial
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Services Completed

    Ed-Fi Data Standard

    Ed-Fi Alliance

    The Ed-Fi Data Standard builds a secure bridge between disparate data systems, empowering state agencies, districts and educators with up-to-date, actionable insights so they can better understand the individual needs of every student in their classroom. The Ed-Fi Data Standard serves as the foundation for enabling interoperability among secure data systems and contains a Unifying Data Model designed to capture the meaning and inherent structure in the most important information in the K-12 education enterprise.

    • Education
    • Open License: No
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: No
  • Elections Draft

    Election Data Format

    Open Data Institute

    Specification utilized for elections at various levels (local, provincial, federal). It has four main tabular formats: contests, choices, results, and voting data. Contests documents metadata

    • Election Results
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: No
  • Elections Completed

    Election Markup Language (EML)

    OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical Committee

    The standard supports the end to end process of the election system. The intent of the standard is to 'develop a standard for the structured interchange among hardware, software, and service providers who engage in any aspect of providing election or voter services to public or private organizations...' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Markup_Language). This is a much more comprehensive schema than the other election data standards observed in this list. In addition, this standard engages in high level election processes

    • Election Results
    • Hardware
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Elections Completed

    Election Results

    Local Government Association (LGA)

    A standard for publishing local results of English elections, including Parish, District/Borough, County, and Parliamentary elections and by-elections. Mayoral and European Parliament elections are not supported in the current version of the schema.

    • Election Results
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: No
  • Finance Completed

    eXtensible Business Reporting Language (xBRL)

    XBRL

    xBRL consists of formats for different kinds of business documents, such as financial statements, performance reports, or compliance reports. The standard formats allow the documents to be transmitted and parsed between entities easily

    • Business
    • Metadata
    • Open License: No
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: No
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Finance Draft

    Fiscal Data Package

    Open Knowledge International

    Standardizes annual government budget by revenue and expenditure. These categories exist at the transactional or aggregated levels.

    • Annual Budget
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Transportation Completed

    General Bikeshare Feed Specification (GBFS)

    North American Bikeshare Systems Association (NABSA)

    Provides real-time information for bikeshare systems, such as number of available docks or bikes per station. Apps such as Transit can easily incorporate bikeshare station locations and statuses across participating cities

    • Bikeshare
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: No
  • Transportation Completed

    General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)

    Google

    Standard format for handling public transportation and geographic data. Developed by Google and the TriMet public transportation agency

    • Transit Schedules
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: No
  • Transportation Draft

    General Transportation

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de medios de transporte is an ontology for describing transportation infrastructure as well as political entities such as villages and other administrative areas

    • Ontology
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Transportation Completed

    GTFS Realtime

    Google

    GTFS Realtime is an extension to GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) that allows public transportation agencies to provide application developers with real-time updates about the locations, estimated arrival times and other important information regarding transit vehicles.

    • Real-Time Transit
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Buildings Completed

    House Facts

    Dr. Rajiv Bhatia

    The House Facts data standard is a uniform format for reporting government data on the operation, safety, and performance of residential buildings.

    • Building Inspections
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: No
  • Services Completed

    Human Service Data Specification (HSDS)

    Open Referral

    HSDS is a format for exchanging data regarding health, human, and social services. Its purpose is to facilitate the exchange of resource directory data across many information channels, in order to make it easier to share, find, and use information about the resources available to people in need.

    • Social Services
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: No
  • Services Completed

    Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL)

    UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

    Simple, hashtag-based standard to improve data sharing during humanitarian crises. Tags are added to a spreadsheet as a second row underneath headers, providing a standardized classification of the column's contents. Maintained by UN OCHA, with participation from a group of agencies, NGOs, and donors.

    • Metadata
    • Emergency
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Finance Completed

    International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)

    IATI

    The IATI standard is a framework for publishing information on development cooperation activities in a timely, comprehensive and forward-looking manner. All published data should be structured and comparable

    • Philanthropy
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Public Facilities Completed

    Land and Building

    Local Government Association (LGA)

    The Local Government Transparency Code requires that local authorities publish details of all their fixed (land and building) assets. This includes all properties owned or used by local government, including those where contractual work takes place, public parking facilities, and social housing.

    • Buildings
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: No
  • Geospatial Completed

    Land Based Classification Standards (LBCS) - OWL2

    American Planner's Association (APA)

    LBCS standard intends to categorize dimension or urban space and provide information about land use. Standard breaks up classification into Activity, Function, Structure Type, Site Development Character, and Ownership

    • Zoning
    • Open License: No
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Finance Draft

    Local Budget

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de datos sobre presupuestos de entidades locales specifies vocabulary for local budget data in Spain. Content of the standard includes both government income and expenses

    • Ontology
    • Annual Budget
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Services Completed

    Local Inspector Value-entry Specification (LIVES)

    Yelp

    Cities use LIVES to publish food inspection information about any restaurant listed on Yelp or any website that has restaurant listings

    • Commercial
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Legislature Draft

    Local Legislative Procedures

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de procedimientos administrativos ofrecidos por un ayuntamiento is an ontology for describing procedures, documents, and regulations published by local Spanish governments

    • Ontology
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Geospatial Completed

    MassGIS Datalayer De Facto Standard

    Massachusetts Office of Geographic Information

    Standard specifies zoning (GIS) data for jurisdictions across the state of Massachusetts

    • Zoning
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Services Completed

    Multi-Agency Incident Transfer (MAIT)

    British APCO

    MAIT was created to solve the problem of exchanging incdents between agency control rooms (emergency dispatch). In line with the UK Government's Open Standards Principles, MAIT is a standard for sharing data between local emergency services in the UK

    • Emergency
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: No
  • Crime Completed

    National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)

    Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

    Every year the FBI releases the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), which compiles crime data from law enforcement agencies across the US. The NIBRS was created to facilitate the compilation of the UCR by standardizing the formats of the crime data.

    • Crime Statistics
    • Open License: No
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Elections Completed

    NIST Election Results Common Data Format

    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

    • Election Results
    • Hardware
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: No
  • Environment Draft

    Noise Pollution

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Contaminacion acustica is an ontology for describing the data obtained by acoustic sensors in cities in Spain. Classes also include derivative values of measurements such as average noise level

    • Ontology
    • Air
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Finance Completed

    Open Contracting Data Standards

    Open Contracting Partnership (OCP)

    International standard to make data about government contracts more transparent to the public

    • Procurement Contracts
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Environment Completed

    Open Water Rate Specification (OWRS)

    California Data Collaborative

    OWRS is a machine-readable format for specifying and sharing water rate information. OWRS is designed for analysts, economists, and software developers interested in analyzing water rates. OWRS attempts to fully encode a water utility's rate structure and pricing schedules in a form that is easy to store, share, modify and apply programmatically.

    • Water
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Public Facilities Completed

    Open311 GeoReport API

    OpenPlans

    API standardizes service requests, eases coordination, and encourages accountability between the government and the public

    • Service Requests
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Public Facilities Proposed

    Open311 GeoReport Bulk

    OpenPlans

    Data format for publishing bulk datasets of service requests; datasets that would otherwise be too bulky for an API request.

    • Service Requests
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: No
  • Public Facilities Draft

    Open311 Inquiry API

    OpenPlans

    Open 311's Inquiry API is a standardized protocol for information about public spaces and services. The Open311 Inquiry API consists of a set of content related to the services provided by the city, a city facilities list (concerning meaning not GIS, although there will be geospatial attributes for the facilities), and a RSS feed that contains information about daily status of public services and facilities.

    • Services
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: No
  • Public Facilities Completed

    Open511

    Open North

    Open511 intends to make road event data lightweight and accessible to the public. The specification intends to facilitate communication among transportation agencies and other government bodies. Open511 format provides a level of transparency, interoperability, and simplicity that exceeds current intelligent transportation systems. The API retrieves the data in XML format

    • Road Construction
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Geospatial Completed

    OpenAddress Specification

    OpenAddress

    OpenAdress Specification builds an open resource for geocoding at the global level

    • Address Points
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Geospatial Completed

    OpenTrails

    Code for America, The Trust for Public Land, GreenInfo Network, Trailhead Labs

    The Open Trail System Specification (OpenTrails) defines a simple, common format for public trails and associated geographic information. OpenTrails allows public land agencies to publish their trail data and developers to write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way.

    • Environment
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Finance Completed

    Operating Budget Schema

    Socrata

    Socrata Open Budget application requires Operating Expense and Operating Revenue datasets to match the Operating Data Schema

    • Annual Budget
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Buildings Completed

    Planning Applications

    Local Government Association (LGA)

    A CSV template for publishing the details of construction permit applications to English local councils.

    • Building Permits
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: No
  • Legislature Draft

    Popolo

    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

    • Ontology
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Services Completed

    Premises Licences

    Local Government Association (LGA)

    A CSV template for publishing the details of licences required in order to carry out retail sale of alcohol or the provision of regulated entertainment or the provision of late night refreshment. This includes any location where such activities take place including a building, a moveable structure, an open space, a vehicle or vessel.

    • Commercial
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: No
  • Public Facilities Completed

    Public Toilets

    Local Government Association (LGA)

    A CSV template for describing details of toilet services where local government is responsible for cleaning and maintenance. Details include location, accessibility, hours of operation, and additional amenities

    • Sanitation
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: No
  • Transportation Draft

    Public Transport

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de medios de transporte públicos is an ontology for describing transportation infrastructure such as bus stops, metro lines, and ferry terminals

    • Ontology
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Geospatial Completed

    Regional Land Information System (RLIS) Discovery

    Metro Data Resource Center

    This standard indicates boundaries for zoning

    • Zoning
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Elections Completed

    Represent

    OpenNorth

    Represent is an open database of elected officials and districts in Canada. Open North provides a template to be filled out and uploaded on municipal websites. Open North has an API for finding representatives and districts by geographic location.

    • Voter Precincts
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: No
  • Elections Completed

    Results Data Spec Version 2

    OpenElections

    Specification standardizes US election data at the state level

    • Election Results
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Transportation Completed

    Service Interface for Real-Time Information (SIRI)

    European Committee for Standardization (CEN)

    SIRI is a data format that enables the server to exchange real-time information about public transit schedules and arrival times. SIRI is now interoperable with GTFS-Realtime services

    • Real-Time Transit
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Geospatial Draft

    Spanish Administrative Land Units

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de unidades territoriales en España is an ontology for describing the types of territories that are found in Spain. This includes counties, municipal districts, and census tracts. All classes are related to pre-defined classes from extended vocabularies

    • Ontology
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Geospatial Draft

    Spanish Postal Addresses

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de direcciones postales en España is an ontology for describing address locations in Spain.

    • Ontology
    • Address Points
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Finance Completed

    Spending

    Local Government Association (LGA)

    The Local Government Transparency Code requires that governments publish details of any expenditure exceeding £500. The Local Government Association developed a common format for local councils to publish spending data, providing a data template as well as a standardized schema for local governments to use

    • Expenditure
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: No
  • Crime Completed

    SPOTCrime Open Crime Standard (SOCS)

    Colin Drane

    SOCS is a standard for police agencies to publish public crime data uniformly. It requires fields such as date and time (in ISO format), locale, and incident type

    • Crime Statistics
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: No
  • Metadata Completed

    Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX)

    SDMX

    SDMX is an ISO standard designed to describe statistical data and metadata, normalise their exchange, and improve their efficient sharing across statistical and similar organisations. It provides an integrated approach to facilitating statistical data and metadata exchange, enabling interoperable implementations within and between systems concerned with the exchange, reporting and dissemination of statistical data and their related meta-information. SDMX documentation consists of technical standards (including the Information Model), statistical guidelines, and an IT architecture

    • Ontology
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Geospatial Draft

    Streets

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de un callejero is an ontology for describing municipal streets in Spain. It is being developed in conjunction with VPDA - Spanish Postal Addresses and VPDA - Spanish Administrative Land Units

    • Ontology
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Finance Draft

    Subsidies

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de subvenciones is an ontology for describing subsidies granted by municipalities. It extends VPDA - Local Budget and uses common ontologies such as Event and Place

    • Ontology
    • Philanthropy
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Services Draft

    Tourist Sites

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de lugares, zonas e itinerarios de interés turístico is an ontology for representing tourist attractions and accessibility. This includes classes such as access mode, type of institution, and maintenance cost

    • Ontology
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Transportation Draft

    Traffic Data

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de datos sobre tráfico is an ontology for describing traffic data and traffic measurement infrastructure. Should be used in conjunction with VPDA - Streets

    • Ontology
    • Traffic
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: No
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Transportation Completed

    Traffic Management Data Dictionary (TMDD)

    Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

    TMDD is a standard for traffic management centers to communicatie between themselves to cooperate in the management of roads and incidents

    • Traffic
    • Metadata
    • Open License: No
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: No
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Transportation Completed

    Transit Communications Interface Profiles (TCIP)

    American Public Transportation Association (APTA)

    Cities use TCIP to structure their real-time public transit data

    • Real-Time Transit
    • Hardware
    • Open License: No
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Public Facilities Draft

    Urban Structures

    The Ontology Engineering Group

    Vocabulario para la representación de equipamientos is an ontology for describing public infrastructure such as parking facilities and their accessibility

    • Ontology
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: No
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: No
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Elections Completed

    Voting Information Project (VIP) Specification

    Pew Charitable Trusts, Google, US State Governments

    Specification indicates voter precincts. The intent is for information disseminators to utilize the schema to provide all citizens with the information they need to cast a ballot

    • Voter Precincts
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: No
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: No
    • Metadata: No
  • Services Completed

    Waste Service Standards

    Local Digital Coalition

    Digital standard data and API structure for exchanging waste service data

    • Sanitation
    • Open License: Yes
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: Yes
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
  • Environment Completed

    WaterML

    Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

    WaterML is a standard model for representing water observation time series

    • Water
    • Open License: No
    • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions: Yes
    • Stakeholder Participation: Yes
    • Consensus-Based Governance: Yes
    • Extensions: Yes
    • Human Readable: No
    • Machine Readable: Yes
    • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data: Yes
    • Metadata: Yes
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