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akuckartz edited this page Dec 28, 2014
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This is OpenGovLD (working title), a fork of the original OParl project (which seems to be dead since July 2014). OpenGovLD continues the work on specifications based on JSON-LD (Linked Data) while the OParl specification only supports JSON and will not be compatible with JSON-LD.
Main items:
- All development processes are governed by transparency, rough consensus (RFC 7282) and the direct involvement of all interested stakeholders
- Supporting stakeholders on the whole planet (contributors so far from: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, South Corea, Germany)
- Based on existing state of the art open standards (such as JSON-LD)
Secondary items:
- Sound solutions of issues, not Ad Hoc solutions, no reinventing of wheels, avoiding NIH syndrome
- High quality specification, using well-established standardization processes and guidelines
- Modular structure of specification, supporting conformance statements
- Main target user groups consist of developers of servers and comfortable, feature rich and advanced applications
- Oriented towards (near) future, not dependent on legacy technology, standards or specifications
- Collaboration with W3C Open Government Community Group, schema.org and other relevant projects (such as Popolo and OParl (but that specification project seems to be dead)
- Multilingual and I18N
- Integrated with established and best-of-breed Linked Data vocabularies
- Uses the namespace
https://www.w3.org/ns/opengov#. Integration inschema.orgis an option to be discussed - Uses Hydra Core Vocabulary to specify API in machine readable way
- Uses Linked Data Fragments(LDF) to enable implementation of advanced and performant search on client. LDF recently joined the Hydra Community Group
The goal of OpenGovLD is to create a set of state of the art specifications for parliamentary data which can be used globally - first of all by joining forces with other best of breed specification projects.
Last change: 2014-12-28