Election Data - OpenGovLD/specs GitHub Wiki

This page is about specifications. Input is welcome!

Principles

  • Define Scope and Use Cases
  • International requirements should have priority
  • Both JSON and Linked Data: JSON-LD to unite Open Data and Semantic Web communities
  • Keep specification of data model separate from specification of synchronisation and other features
  • Do not reinvent wheels - (re)use well-designed specifications and data models

The same principles should apply to specifications as those listed on: https://github.com/OpenGovLD/specs/wiki

Stakeholders

  • European Parliament
  • National parliaments
  • Municipalities
  • People in charge of elections
  • Historical archives
  • Election software creators
  • Open Data communities
  • Linked Data community

Articles

Existing vocabularies and specifications

  • https://datastandards.directory/Elections - a list of currently seven specifications, some of them are relevant:

  • Election Results, Local Government Association (LGA)

  • NIST Election Results Common Data Format

  • Election Data Format, Open Data Institute

  • Results Data Spec Version 2, OpenElections

Popolo

These classes were specified to satisfy different use cases, but they likely are a good start:

Core Vocabularies

These are maintained by the ISA Programme of the European Commission:

Countries

Austria

Germany