Existing Standards

• Domain-specific Standards

  • 360 Giving
  • Akoma Ntoso
  • Building & Land Development Specification (BLDS)
  • Common Alerting Protocol
  • Election Markup Language (EML)
  • General Bikeshare Feed
  • General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)
  • Google Civic Information API
  • GTFS Real-Time (GTFS-RT)
  • House Facts
  • Local Inspector Value Entry Specification (LIVES)
  • Open311
  • Open Civic Data
  • Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
  • OpenElections
  • OpenReferral
  • OpenTraffic
  • OpenTrails
  • Popolo
  • SharedStreets
  • Voting Information Project (VIP)

• General Standards

  • Data Catalogs

    • CKAN API
    • Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT)
    • Data.json and Common Core Metadata
    • OGC Catalogue Standard (CSW)
    • Socrata Open Data API (SODA)
    • Geospatial Data
      • GeoJSON
      • Keyhole Markup Language (KML)
      • OGC GeoPackage
      • OGC WMS/WFS/WCS/WMTS/WPS
      • Shapefile

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