Election Data

This page is about specifications. Input is welcome!

Principles

• International requirements 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

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

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

Popolo

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

• http://www.popoloproject.com/specs/vote.html
• http://www.popoloproject.com/specs/vote-event.html
• http://www.popoloproject.com/specs/count.html

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

• https://github.com/OKFNat/offenewahlen_wikidata especially: https://github.com/OKFNat/offenewahlen_wikidata/issues/14
• https://github.com/OKFNat/offenewahlen_api/blob/master/DATA.md
• https://github.com/OKFNat/offenewahlen-at/wiki
• https://github.com/OKFNat/offenewahlen_api-specification

Germany

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