Data Standards
See also standards by application type and the Data Standards category page for all related pages.
- List of Civic Data Standards
- Standards Case-Studies
- Standards Frameworks
- Standards Priorities
- Open Standards Policy
- Data Platform
Data Protocols
See also dataprotocols.org
Data Catalog Protocols
See also http://spec.datacatalogs.org
- Data Catalog Vocabulary - W3C RDF vocabulary for the exchange of data catalogs
- DCAT supported by CKAN and Socrata
- CKAN API
- OGC Catalog Service
- Open Archives Protocol
- National Data Catalog API
API & Web Service Discovery
- REST API Design Standards in government from the White House
- Swagger - a specification and complete framework implementation for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services
- I/O Docs
- Json Hyper Schema
- XRD & XRDS
- WADL
- WSDL
- OpenSearch
- More info on API Discovery
Generic Data Protocols
Data Catalog Ontologies
- W3C Data Catalog Resource Guide
- Data Catalog Vocabulary - W3C RDF vocabulary for the exchange of data catalogs
- Dublin Core
Civic Data Ontologies
See Civic Ontology
Domain Specific Standards
This is a list of different data types which may or may not have standards associated with them. In cases where there are not standards, links to case studies or potential defacto standards may be applicable. See also schema.org and European semantic interoperability assets
General Standards
- Contacts - vCard and PortableContacts (webfinger also allows profile lookup by email address)
- Calendars & Events - iCal
- Documents - HTML, ePub, ODF:ODT (PDFs are not a standard for machine readable documents, they’re a standard for preparing print documents)
- Spreadsheets & Databases - CSV, ODF:ODS, SQL, XML, JSON
- Web Login & Authentication - OpenID
- Permissions & Authorization - oAuth and LDAP
- Activity Streams - http://activitystrea.ms/
- Status Updates & Commenting - oStatus