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Tracey P. Lauriault
Hi Gang;

Is there a place which lists open data standards?

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/


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Re: [open-government] Open Data Standards

Tracey P. Lauriault
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 <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi Tracey,

That's a great question. I note that the Data Protocols has a nascent "reference" section and there are plans to extend it:


New additions are very welcome!

Regards,

Rufus

On 28 April 2015 at 10:59, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi Gang;

Is there a place which lists open data standards?

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/


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Re: [open-government] Open Data Standards

Tracey P. Lauriault
Thank you Stephane and Rufus;

That was really helpful.

Rufus, please forgive my ignorance, but protocols, packages, standards and specifications?

I know what specs and standards are but not sure what you mean by protocols and packages?  Also, perhaps naive of me, but my trust in things increases when I see the community involved in things being produced and communities of adopters.  In this list you sent how would a novice like myself be able to judge when looking at the pages? Of course I have trust in the sender, you, but how do I trust the robustness of what you sent, who is community developing this, what is the context, who are the creators, users, implementers?  The site does not have much of that context info.

Cheers
t

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Stéphane Guidoin <[hidden email]> wrote:
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 <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi Tracey,

That's a great question. I note that the Data Protocols has a nascent "reference" section and there are plans to extend it:


New additions are very welcome!

Regards,

Rufus

On 28 April 2015 at 10:59, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi Gang;

Is there a place which lists open data standards?

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/


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Re: [open-government] Open Data Standards

James McKinney-2
Hi Tracey,

I don’t know of any comprehensive list of data standards, mainly because it would be so large that it would no longer be helpful. As Stéphane mentioned, once you get into domain-specific standards, you end up with a lot of competing standards. Also, I’m using “standard” here in the colloquial, loose sense to mean any specification.

The best organized source for linked data vocabularies is http://lov.okfn.org/ There are other linked data vocabulary search engines, but LOV is the best in my experience, and it is actively maintained.

For other lists of specs, you can look at:

So far on this list, it seems that the suggestions in the replies to your original message have been mostly about specs that people find interesting - but not necessarily specs that have much widespread adoption. With the exception of Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), those listed by Stéphane are from the community surrounding Code for America. The oldest of those is Yelp’s from 2012. Its partnership with Socrata may propel the spec to widespread use: http://www.socrata.com/newsroom-article/socrata-yelp-partner-open-restaurant-data-improve-global-public-health/

The non-spec pages with more context (e.g. list of adopters and people involved) for OpenTrails and HouseFacts are:

The HDX spec was restarted after 2013; the earlier version can be seen at http://web.archive.org/web/20140221133907/http://hxl.humanitarianresponse.info/ The new version is still in development.

As for the various Data Packages, hopefully Rufus can tell us more about their adoption, and whether they are stable or are still under active development.

By the way, Popolo inventories the terms of specs that it researched as prior work (so that it may reuse the best of those specs) at http://www.popoloproject.com/appendices/terms.html As you can see, spec developers have come up with at least a dozen ways to express anything.

Your list of specifications/standards looks good to me! I think Budget Data Package (http://fiscal.dataprotocols.org/) should be substituted for the linked OpenSpending spec. My understanding is that Budget Data Package was pursued instead of further development on that earlier spec.

Cheers,

James

On Apr 28, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:

Thank you Stephane and Rufus;

That was really helpful.

Rufus, please forgive my ignorance, but protocols, packages, standards and specifications?

I know what specs and standards are but not sure what you mean by protocols and packages?  Also, perhaps naive of me, but my trust in things increases when I see the community involved in things being produced and communities of adopters.  In this list you sent how would a novice like myself be able to judge when looking at the pages? Of course I have trust in the sender, you, but how do I trust the robustness of what you sent, who is community developing this, what is the context, who are the creators, users, implementers?  The site does not have much of that context info.

Cheers
t

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Stéphane Guidoin <[hidden email]> wrote:
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 <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi Tracey,

That's a great question. I note that the Data Protocols has a nascent "reference" section and there are plans to extend it:


New additions are very welcome!

Regards,

Rufus

On 28 April 2015 at 10:59, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi Gang;

Is there a place which lists open data standards?

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
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Re: [open-government] Open Data Standards

Tracey P. Lauriault
Thank you James.

I really like the report you all worked on!


On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:54 PM, James McKinney <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi Tracey,

I don’t know of any comprehensive list of data standards, mainly because it would be so large that it would no longer be helpful. As Stéphane mentioned, once you get into domain-specific standards, you end up with a lot of competing standards. Also, I’m using “standard” here in the colloquial, loose sense to mean any specification.

The best organized source for linked data vocabularies is http://lov.okfn.org/ There are other linked data vocabulary search engines, but LOV is the best in my experience, and it is actively maintained.

For other lists of specs, you can look at:

So far on this list, it seems that the suggestions in the replies to your original message have been mostly about specs that people find interesting - but not necessarily specs that have much widespread adoption. With the exception of Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), those listed by Stéphane are from the community surrounding Code for America. The oldest of those is Yelp’s from 2012. Its partnership with Socrata may propel the spec to widespread use: http://www.socrata.com/newsroom-article/socrata-yelp-partner-open-restaurant-data-improve-global-public-health/

The non-spec pages with more context (e.g. list of adopters and people involved) for OpenTrails and HouseFacts are:

The HDX spec was restarted after 2013; the earlier version can be seen at http://web.archive.org/web/20140221133907/http://hxl.humanitarianresponse.info/ The new version is still in development.

As for the various Data Packages, hopefully Rufus can tell us more about their adoption, and whether they are stable or are still under active development.

By the way, Popolo inventories the terms of specs that it researched as prior work (so that it may reuse the best of those specs) at http://www.popoloproject.com/appendices/terms.html As you can see, spec developers have come up with at least a dozen ways to express anything.

Your list of specifications/standards looks good to me! I think Budget Data Package (http://fiscal.dataprotocols.org/) should be substituted for the linked OpenSpending spec. My understanding is that Budget Data Package was pursued instead of further development on that earlier spec.

Cheers,

James

On Apr 28, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:

Thank you Stephane and Rufus;

That was really helpful.

Rufus, please forgive my ignorance, but protocols, packages, standards and specifications?

I know what specs and standards are but not sure what you mean by protocols and packages?  Also, perhaps naive of me, but my trust in things increases when I see the community involved in things being produced and communities of adopters.  In this list you sent how would a novice like myself be able to judge when looking at the pages? Of course I have trust in the sender, you, but how do I trust the robustness of what you sent, who is community developing this, what is the context, who are the creators, users, implementers?  The site does not have much of that context info.

Cheers
t

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Stéphane Guidoin <[hidden email]> wrote:
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 <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi Tracey,

That's a great question. I note that the Data Protocols has a nascent "reference" section and there are plans to extend it:


New additions are very welcome!

Regards,

Rufus

On 28 April 2015 at 10:59, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi Gang;

Is there a place which lists open data standards?

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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Re: Open Data Standards

Robin Millette
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There's also the Awesome Public Datasets, handy if you have a github
account and want to submit an update:

https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets

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