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Formats designed to structure data, which then enables interoperability, analysis, and software development.

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Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) Working Group

The Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) working group will develop a set of Standards Track specifications that enable creation of decentralized global networks for publication of self-certifying data.

DAOstar

DAOstar is building the open protocols that let scrappy rebel DAOs coordinate, interoperate, and win.

Cosilico

Cosilico

London

A managed runtime for rule encodings, calibrated populations, and economic simulation.

Curb Data Specification (CDS)

A digital tool that helps cities and companies pilot and scale dynamic curb zones. CDS provides a mechanism for expressing static and dynamic regulations, measuring activity at the curb, and developing policies that create more accessible, useful curbs.

goose

your local AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly install goose

AGENTS.md

A simple, open format for guiding coding agents, used by over 60k open-source projects.

RSL Collective

The nonprofit RSL Collective brings together millions of online publishers and creators to protect their rights and negotiate for fair compensation from AI companies.

Adobe Content Authenticity Beta

Apply secure metadata with information about yourself and your content preferences, directly to your files with Content Credentials.

360Giving Data Standard

The 360Giving Data Standard is a uniform and consistent way to describe grantmaking data.

Generative AI Accountability Indicators (GAIA)

Generative AI Accountability Indicators (GAIA)

740 15th Street, N.W., Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005

Soon Ranking Digital Rights will release the Generative AI Accountability Scorecard, evaluating major consumer-facing generative AI services’ respect for the human rights to privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, and freedom of information.

Mobile Application Security Assessment (MASA)

For MASA AL2, the lab will test the public version of the app (available in the Play Store) and provide assessment feedback directly to developers, including remediation steps for any flagged issues.

The Open Source AI Definition

The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI.

Disability Data Standard

We want to develop a standard approach to collecting data about disability from constituents and City employees to improve accessibility and inclusion in Boston.

Ballots and Audits Standards for Election Excellence

The nonpartisan standards define excellence in U.S. election administration for local election departments across the country.

Mobility Data Specification (MDS)

Mobility Data Specification (MDS)

United States of America 🇺🇸

MDS standardizes communication and data-sharing between cities and private mobility providers, such as e-scooter and bike-share companies.

Standard for Public Code

The Standard for Public Code - a model for public organizations to build their own open source solutions to enable successful future reuse by and collaboration with similar public organizations in other places.

vc-ed (Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force)

The Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force will explore the use of Verifiable Credentials that represent education, employment, and achievement credentials

LearnCard

What if we worked together to enable learner sovereignty, mobility and agency?

Standards Lab

Standards Lab

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

This handbook provides an overview of the creation, maintenance and adoption of a policy-related open data standard.

Dark Data Project

The Dark Data Project helps organizations uncover, deobfuscate, semantify and analyze problematic datasets

Projeto Credibilidade

Projeto Credibilidade

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷

The Trust Project develops transparency standards that help people assess the quality and credibility of journalism.

Credibility Coalition

The Credibility Coalition brings people together to develop common standards for information credibility.

The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)

An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.

MediaReview

MediaReview

Duke University, Durham, NC

A sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.

The Data Nutrition Project

The Data Nutrition Project is an independent research organization focused on data integrity that creates a "nutrition label" standard for datasets, conducts independent research, and provides educational materials for a variety of audiences.

Digital Public Goods Standard

The Digital Public Goods Standard is a set of specifications and guidelines designed to maximise consensus about whether a digital solution conforms to the definition of a digital public good: open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm by design and are of high relevance for attainment of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

999 Apps Certification Scheme

999 Apps Certification Scheme

The Grainger Suite Dobson House, Regent Centre Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 3PF United Kingdom

A technical certification process for emergency response apps

International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard

International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard

Aid Effectiveness Team, Department of International Development, East Kilbride, Glasgow, G75 8EA, UK

The IATI Standard is a set of rules and guidance about what data organisations should publish and what format it should be presented in.

Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard enables transparency by providing a solid conceptual and practical framework for collecting and publishing beneficial ownership data, resulting in data that is interoperable, more easily reused, and of higher quality.

Open Referral

Open Referral

Miami, FL

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

PFIF missing persons

PFIF missing persons

Canada 🇨🇦

PFIF is a data model and an XML-based exchange format for sharing data about people who are missing or displaced by natural or human-made disasters.

Organisational Digital Maturity Assessment Criteria

Organisational Digital Maturity Assessment Criteria

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

The Voluntary Sector Digital Maturity Matrix was a free tool provided by NCVO to assess the current maturity of a voluntary sector organisation's digital capability, compared with its desired target state

Represent Canada

Represent Canada

Canada 🇨🇦

Find the elected officials and electoral districts for any Canadian address or postal code, at all levels of government

State Decoded

The State Decoded parser can either be modified to use bespoke PHP to parse a legal code in its native format, or it can parse a prescribed XML format.

Clearspending Russia

Автоматизированный мониторинг и аналитика по заключенным госконтрактам – инструменты для общественного анализа, выявления злоупотреблений, борьбы с коррупцией и неэффективным расходованием государственных средств.

Human Services Data Specification (HSDS)

HSDS is designed to support the publication of open, interoperable community resource directory data.

Data Standards Directory

Data Standards Directory

Johns Hopkins University

An open source directory of data standards across categories like Annual Budget, Building Permits, Crime Statistics, Election Results, Expenditure, Public Facilities, Real-Time Transit, Road Construction, Service Requests, and Zoning.

Democracy Works Elections API

Our full-time research team maintains a detailed calendar of upcoming state, special, and local elections, which we release as our Elections API.

Open Contracting Partnership

Open Contracting Partnership

641 S Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20001

Government contracting is worth trillions of dollars a year. We open up public contracting through disclosure, data and engagement so that the huge sums of money involved are spent honestly, fairly, and effectively.

Library of Congress Machine Readable Cataloging

The MARC formats are standards for the representationand communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.

Mark43

Mark43 is reinventing public safety software applications from the ground up, delivering unparalleled efficiency gains to first responders.

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