Data schemas and standards

Curb Data Specification (CDS)

A digital tool that helps cities and companies pilot and scale dynamic curb zones. CDS provides a mechanism for expressing static and dynamic regulations, measuring activity at the curb, and developin...

goose

your local AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly install goose

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems.

AGENTS.md

A simple, open format for guiding coding agents, used by over 60k open-source projects.

RSL Collective

The nonprofit RSL Collective brings together millions of online publishers and creators to protect their rights and negotiate for fair compensation from AI companies.

civic tech organization property in Wikidata

Adobe Content Authenticity Beta

Apply secure metadata with information about yourself and your content preferences, directly to your files with Content Credentials.

360Giving Data Standard

The 360Giving Data Standard is a uniform and consistent way to describe grantmaking data.

Generative AI Accountability Indicators (GAIA)

Soon Ranking Digital Rights will release the Generative AI Accountability Scorecard, evaluating major consumer-facing generative AI services’ respect for the human rights to privacy, non-discriminatio...

Mobile Application Security Assessment (MASA)

For MASA AL2, the lab will test the public version of the app (available in the Play Store) and provide assessment feedback directly to developers, including remediation steps for any flagged issues.

The Open Source AI Definition

The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI.

Disability Data Standard

We want to develop a standard approach to collecting data about disability from constituents and City employees to improve accessibility and inclusion in Boston.

Ballots and Audits Standards for Election Excellence

The nonpartisan standards define excellence in U.S. election administration for local election departments across the country.

Mobility Data Specification (MDS)

MDS standardizes communication and data-sharing between cities and private mobility providers, such as e-scooter and bike-share companies.

Murmurations

Making movements visible

Standards of Excellence

The standards explicitly define excellent U.S. election administration.

Standard for Public Code

The Standard for Public Code - a model for public organizations to build their own open source solutions to enable successful future reuse by and collaboration with similar public organizations in oth...

vc-ed (Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force)

The Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force will explore the use of Verifiable Credentials that represent education, employment, and achievement credentials

LearnCard

What if we worked together to enable learner sovereignty, mobility and agency?

Standards Lab

This handbook provides an overview of the creation, maintenance and adoption of a policy-related open data standard.

Dark Data Project

The Dark Data Project helps organizations uncover, deobfuscate, semantify and analyze problematic datasets

Projeto Credibilidade

The Trust Project develops transparency standards that help people assess the quality and credibility of journalism.

Journalism Trust Initiative

The Journalism Trust Initiative aims at a healthier information space.

Credibility Coalition

The Credibility Coalition brings people together to develop common standards for information credibility.

The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)

An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.

MediaReview

A sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.

ClaimReview Project

A tagging system for fact-checks

The Data Nutrition Project

The Data Nutrition Project is an independent research organization focused on data integrity that creates a "nutrition label" standard for datasets, conducts independent research, and provides educati...

Digital Public Goods Standard

The Digital Public Goods Standard is a set of specifications and guidelines designed to maximise consensus about whether a digital solution conforms to the definition of a digital public good: open-so...

999 Apps Certification Scheme

A technical certification process for emergency response apps

International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard

The IATI Standard is a set of rules and guidance about what data organisations should publish and what format it should be presented in.

Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard enables transparency by providing a solid conceptual and practical framework for collecting and publishing beneficial ownership data, resulting in data that is i...

Open Procurement

OpenProcurement is an open source e-procurement toolkit.

United Kingdom Digital Service Standard

The Service Standard helps teams to create and run great public services.

Schema.org

Schema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond.

Local Inspector Value-Entry Specification (LIVES)

Restaurant hygiene scores from the City of San Francisco will be imported onto Yelp business pages. Last updated 2015.

General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)

Format for exchanging static public transit information.

Open Referral

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

publiccode.yml

A metadata description standard for public software

Library of Congress Machine Readable Cataloging

The MARC formats are standards for the representationand communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.

Clearspending Russia

Автоматизированный мониторинг и аналитика по заключенным госконтрактам – инструменты для общественного анализа, выявления злоупотреблений, борьбы с коррупцией и неэффективным расходованием государстве...

Represent Canada

Find the elected officials and electoral districts for any Canadian address or postal code, at all levels of government

State Decoded

The State Decoded parser can either be modified to use bespoke PHP to parse a legal code in its native format, or it can parse a prescribed XML format.

DataMade

DataMade is a civic technology company. We build open source technology using open data to empower journalists, researchers, governments and advocacy organizations.

OParl

OParl. Mehr Transparenz für Ihre Kommune.

Green Button

The Green Button initiative is an industry-led effort to respond to a White House call-to-action to provide electricity, natural gas, and water customers with easy access to their energy- and water-us...

DCLG Waste Standards

This project was born at LocalGov Camp 2014, during a session on common technology standards for local government services.

Geena Davis Inclusion Quotient

Solutions Through rigorous research and strategic partnerships, the Institute empowers media makers, studios, and industry leaders

Socrata data formats for Budget, Expenditures, and Service Connect

This repository is designed to be a public, forkable, pull-requestable repository for standardized data schemas for use in Socrata’s open government applications as well as your own.

Federal Spending Transparency

The Federal Spending Transparency GitHub page is a space for stakeholders inside and outside government to stay informed on Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) Implementatio...