Standards
The external standards schemaGov profiles against, and which profiles use each one.
schema.org
schema.org community (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Yandex)
The general-purpose vocabulary schemaGov is a profile of; every domain projects into it.
Wikidata QID
Wikimedia Foundation
A free knowledge base whose stable identifiers (QIDs) let schemaGov records join up with any other dataset that also cites Wikidata.
Akoma Ntoso
OASIS LegalDocML Technical Committee
An XML standard for marking up the structure of legislative and judicial documents so their internal parts - clauses, provisos, amendments - are machine-readable.
W3C ORG
W3C
A vocabulary for describing organizational structures, changes over time, and the roles people hold within them.
Popolo
Popolo Project
An open specification for describing people, organizations, and the memberships and roles that connect them in government and legislative data.
ELI
Publications Office of the European Union
The European Legislation Identifier, a standard scheme for identifying and citing pieces of national and EU legislation consistently across countries.
Open Civic Data
Open Civic Data community
Conventions, including the OCD Division identifier scheme, for describing political geography and civic entities in a way that works across countries.
Open311 GeoReport v2
Open311 community
A standard API for submitting and tracking non-emergency service requests, like reporting a pothole, to a local government.
Fiscal Data Package
Frictionless Data (Open Knowledge Foundation)
A specification for publishing structured, machine-readable government budget and spending data with enough context to compare figures across publishers.
COFOG
United Nations Statistics Division
The Classification of the Functions of Government, used to categorize spending by purpose - health, education, defence - so it is comparable across countries.
GFSM 2014
International Monetary Fund
The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Manual, which classifies government transactions by economic type - salaries, goods, interest - rather than purpose.
Open Contracting Data Standard
Open Contracting Partnership
A standard for publishing data about every stage of a public contracting process, from planning through award to implementation.
DCAT / DCAT-AP
W3C; DCAT-AP profile maintained by the European Commission
A vocabulary for describing datasets and data catalogs so they can be discovered and cross-referenced across different portals.
Common Alerting Protocol (OASIS)
OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee
A standard for structuring public warning messages so they can be exchanged consistently across every kind of alerting system and media.
BLDS
PermitData.org
A shared data specification for building and land-development permits, so permit data is comparable across the many local systems that issue them.
NIST SP 1500-100
National Institute of Standards and Technology
A NIST special publication defining a common data format for election results reporting.
Open Referral / HSDS
Open Referral initiative
The Human Services Data Specification, an open standard for describing health, human, and social services so referral directories can share listings.
Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standard
Open Contracting Partnership; CoST - the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative
A standard for publishing data about infrastructure projects across their whole lifecycle, from identification through completion and maintenance.
GOV.UK Service Manual
Government Digital Service (UK)
Guidance for building government digital services, including the delivery phases of discovery, alpha, beta, live and retirement.