Canadian contracting data WAS Fwd: [public-ocds] Re: Beta Release of the Open Contracting Data Standard

[Michael Lenczner-2]

I thought this list might be interested in this:

"The work Sarah has done on converting Canadian contract data into the draft OCDS standard documented here http://standard.open-contracting.org/field-notes-transforming-canadian-procurement-data-to-ocds-format/ might be useful to reference..."

Michael Lenczner
CEO, Ajah
http://www.ajah.ca
514-708-5112

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tim Davies <[hidden email]>
Date: Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [public-ocds] Re: Beta Release of the Open Contracting Data Standard
To: [hidden email]

Hello Willelm,

I would suggest that JSON models also be consumable in XML. There are two primary motivations

1. It is much easier for human reading, and the conversion can be fairly automated.
2. There are fairly strong schema tools available to validate the structure of data provided. When you are dealing with data interchange formats, such as the one suggested, I believe that strong schema validation capabilities are critical for data integrity.

Many thanks for raising this. I've added an issue to the tracker at https://github.com/open-contracting/standard/issues/76 with the request for XML.

On our current roadmap this is not something we would have in place by November, but our approach has certainly been based around the idea of supporting other serialisations, each following the idioms of the respective data formats.

If there was anyone with an interest in testing out how to render the JSON model as XML - that's something we'd love to see - particularly if it helped us identify any ways the current models could be strengthened to make XML->JSON roundtrips work best in future.

On schema validation, Sarah has done a lot of work with JSON-Schema to check that we can validate the structure of data provided, and whilst not as advanced as XML validation tools, this appears to be robust enough for the initial release of the standard. You can find and test the validator at http://ocds.open-contracting.org/validator/ if you are interested - and the full JSON Schema is at https://github.com/open-contracting/standard/tree/master/standard/schema

All the best

 

Tim

Willem

On Thursday, September 4, 2014 4:00:35 PM UTC+2, Michael Roberts wrote:

The Open Contracting Partnership is pleased to share for broad consultations the Beta Release of the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS).

The Standard, which aims to enhance and promote disclosure and participation in public contracting, is a core product of the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP). The objective of the Data Standard is to support governments to publish contracting data in a more accessible, interoperable and useful manner and to enable the widest possible range of stakeholders to use contracting data effectively.

This Beta Release of the Open Contracting Data Standard provides:

• A description of the overall Open Contracting Data Standard Model, and
• A JSON Schema for open contracting releases and records that includes a set of recommended fields.

The development of the Open Contracting Data Standard is an open process and inputs and feedback are encouraged. Although this will be an ongoing process, those comments provided before September 30 will be more likely to fully inform version 1.0 of the Standard. These comments will help refine the standard, both the structure and fields, in preparation for the initial release version.

You can share your comments in two ways:

• Inline comments on the document - Log in to the Open Contracting Data Standard Github site and then highlight portions of text to add comments. To "reply" to an existing comment, highlight the same portion of text, and then add your comment. See instructions at the top of the Github login page for more help on commenting.
• Mailing list - If you have more general comments that don't fit well as inline comments, please join the OCDS mailing list and start a discussion with your thoughts.

We appreciate you taking the time to go through this information and helping us improve the final details of the Standard before the launch of the Version 1.0 later this year.

For specific details on the process of the development of the standard please email [e-mail].

---

The Open Contracting Data Standard is a core product of the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP). Version 1.0 of the standard is being developed for the OCP by the World Wide Web Foundation, through a project supported by The Omidyar Network and the World Bank.

---

Michael Roberts

Open Data Technical Manager

<a href="tel:%2B1%20514%20802%209528" value="[phone]" target="_blank">[phone]
@michaeloroberts | [hidden email]
World Wide Web Foundation | 1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC, 20005, USA | www.webfoundation.org | Twitter: @webfoundation

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Public OCDS" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [hidden email].
To post to this group, send email to [hidden email].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/webfoundation.org/group/public-ocds/.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/webfoundation.org/d/msgid/public-ocds/abddbade-b82b-4b0e-979b-b304d6cd2f5f%40webfoundation.org.

--

-- 

Tim Davies

Research Coordinator, Open Data Research Network

<a href="tel:%2B44%207834%20856%20303" value="[phone]" target="_blank">[phone]

@timdavies | @odrnetwork | www.opendataresearch.org 

World Wide Web Foundation | 1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA | www.webfoundation.org | Twitter: @webfoundation

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Public OCDS" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [hidden email].
To post to this group, send email to [hidden email].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/webfoundation.org/group/public-ocds/.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/webfoundation.org/d/msgid/public-ocds/CAOA4sPBjK6-YdcEvHzBURrfVHdcmmmOpR%3DH_7WaGQ-hc0_s_Jg%40mail.gmail.com.

_______________________________________________
CivicAccess-discuss mailing list
[hidden email]
http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss