[open-government] Open Data Standards

Tue Apr 28 12:48:49 UTC 2015

Hey Tracey,

We (Open north) are continuing our work around open data standards and some
new content should become available before IODC.

Before we get there, if I may add a few comments:
- In our current work, we are mainly focusing on the open data building
blocks: standards and best practices that make open data usable, things
like DCAT but also things like character encoding. In my view this is
really some sort of "meta" open standards because they make open data
available/possible (and unfortunatly many of these basic block are not that
well-known yet)

- Then there are what we can call "generic" standards. Those are standards
that can be integrated in any data. Things like IANA code, ISO 639, ISO
8601 are usually not that useful alone but are pretty helpful when you have
to put a date (for example) in another dataset.

- After you have domain specific open data standards which are full-fledge
self-sufficient (although they can borrow from others) standards that allow
to represent a very specific information (e.g transit schedules.) The
difficulty with those is that they tend to proliferate. Also it's not
always obvious how a standards is (for) open data.

In any case, to your list I would add:
- Open referral (aka open211) : http://openreferral.org/
- Humanitarian data exchange: http://docs.hdx.rwlabs.org/standards/
- Health score for food inspection : http://www.yelp.ca/healthscores
- House facts for home/salubrity inspections:
https://sites.google.com/site/housefactsdatastandard/home/specification
- Open trails for ... trails:
https://www.codeforamerica.org/specifications/trails/spec.html

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Rufus!
>
> Any thoughts on the list I sent? Anything missing?  It is for a technical
> framework doc under discussion at the moment
>
> I am finding a disconnect in open data communities re-standards that
> support exchange and interoperability beyond the data format or linked
> data.  For example, in that list I sent, everything after *ISO 8601 *is
> what i added.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  This document goes for discussion
> and potential signoff tmr!
>
> Cheers
> t
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tracey,
>>
>> That's a great question. I note that the Data Protocols
>> <http://dataprotocols.org/> has a nascent "reference" section and there
>> are plans to extend it:
>>
>> http://dataprotocols.org/reference/
>>
>> New additions are very welcome!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> On 28 April 2015 at 10:59, Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Gang;
>>>
>>> Is there a place which lists open data standards?
>>>
>>> I found the Open North Inventory,
>>> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxxUHhraTIHhcnNhUU9JRnc1YlU/edit
>>>
>>> For example if I wanted to find a page of the most important data,
>>> metadata, and transfer standards in order to make a recommendation, where
>>> would I go fishing?
>>>
>>> Here is a working list to date:
>>>
>>> *Short Title*
>>>
>>> *Title*
>>>
>>> *Domain*
>>>
>>> *Standardisation Body*
>>>
>>> *URL*
>>>
>>> *DCAT*
>>>
>>> Data Catalog Vocabulary
>>>
>>> Metadata
>>>
>>> W3C
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/
>>>
>>> *INSPIRE*
>>>
>>> Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community
>>>
>>> Spatial / Environmental
>>>
>>> EC
>>>
>>> http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/
>>>
>>> *DCMI*
>>>
>>> Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
>>>
>>> Metadata
>>>
>>> Dublin Core
>>>
>>> http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
>>>
>>> *SDMX*
>>>
>>> Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange
>>>
>>> Statistical
>>>
>>> SDMX
>>>
>>> http://sdmx.org/
>>>
>>> *DataCube*
>>>
>>> Data Cube Vocabulary
>>>
>>> Statistical
>>>
>>> W3C
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/
>>>
>>> *XBRL*
>>>
>>> eXtensible Business Reporting Language
>>>
>>> Business
>>>
>>> XBRL
>>>
>>> http://www.xbrl.org/
>>>
>>> *IANA*
>>>
>>> IANA Media Types
>>>
>>> Media/File Types
>>>
>>> Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
>>>
>>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml
>>>
>>> *ISO 639*
>>>
>>> Language codes
>>>
>>> Language
>>>
>>> ISO
>>>
>>> http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/language_codes.htm
>>>
>>> *ISO 8601*
>>>
>>> Date and time format
>>>
>>> Date/Time
>>>
>>> ISO
>>>
>>> http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/iso8601.htm
>>>
>>> *WMS*
>>>
>>> Map Service Interface Standard
>>>
>>> HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map images from one or more
>>> distributed geospatial databases.
>>>
>>> OGC
>>>
>>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms
>>>
>>> *WFS*
>>>
>>> Web Feature Service
>>>
>>> allows a client to retrieve and update geospatial data encoded in GML
>>> from multiple WFS
>>>
>>> OGC
>>>
>>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wfs
>>>
>>> *Gazetteer Service *
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Application Profile of the Web Feature Service Best Practice
>>>
>>> OGC
>>>
>>> https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=46964
>>>
>>> *Open511*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> standard for road event information
>>>
>>> Open511.org
>>>
>>> http://open511.org/
>>>
>>> *IATI*
>>>
>>> International Aid Transparency Initiative
>>>
>>> framework for publishing information on development cooperation
>>> activities in a timely, comprehensive and forward-looking manner.
>>>
>>> IATI
>>>
>>> http://iatistandard.org/
>>>
>>> *OpenSpending*
>>>
>>> Public spending data standard
>>>
>>> International standard for transaction-level spending data.
>>>
>>> Open Spending
>>>
>>> http://community.openspending.org/research/standard/technical/
>>>
>>> *GTFS-Realtime*
>>>
>>> General Transit Feed Specification
>>>
>>> Feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide
>>> realtime updates about their fleet
>>>
>>> Google
>>>
>>> https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs-realtime/
>>>
>>> *GTFS*
>>>
>>> General Transit Feed Specification
>>>
>>> common format for public transportation schedules and associated
>>> geographic information
>>>
>>> Google
>>>
>>> https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/
>>>
>>> *Open Contracting*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> formalize how contracting data and documents can be published in an
>>> accessible, structured and repeatable way
>>>
>>> Open Contracting
>>>
>>> http://ocds.open-contracting.org/standard/r/1__0__RC/en/standard/intro/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Popolo*
>>>
>>> International open government data specifications
>>>
>>> specifications relating to the legislative branch
>>>
>>> Open North
>>>
>>> http://www.popoloproject.com/
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> t
>>> --
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>>>
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