Election Data

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Andreas Kuckartz edited this page Jun 24, 2018 · 16 revisions

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

Warum wir über Wahldaten reden müssen, Ulrike Thalheim und Boris Hekele, 19.01.18 https://codefor.de/blog/warum-wir-ueber-wahldaten-reden-muessen.html
Feedback on Election Vocabulary, Christopher Gutteridge, February 16, 2016 https://blog.soton.ac.uk/webteam/2016/02/16/feedback-on-election-vocabulary/

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:

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/semantic-interoperability-community-semic/core-vocabularies

Countries

Austria

Germany

Workshop "Offene Wahldaten" bei der kdvz (Meeting in Erftstadt): https://doodle.com/poll/c6ab3wgg5sheq4aq