Suggest a federation initiative to include

[philipashlock]

Please suggest additional government data federation, aggregation, or standardization efforts to include here

[lachellel]

Treasury Data Model. Managed by Fiscal Service and Treasury Data Stewards. Used with Financial Industry

https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/registry/

@philipashlock Does this count?

[JJediny]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12wcUhE6waDz0RPT81E5aebcJf58AH92FstMZQKy5kRc/htmlview#gid=0

[djharrity]

Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) at https://ceds.ed.gov

[jqnatividad]

What about the ISO 37120 standard to do "apples-to-apples" comparison of cities/communities?
http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=62436

Here's a good explainer what ISO 37120 is:
http://citiscope.org/story/2014/finally-clear-performance-data-comparing-worlds-cities

FYI, we used ISO 37120 guidance in computing KPIs for all 3,000+ counties and 35,000+ towns/municipalities in the US with civicdashboards.com.

Not only did we allow comparisons (http://www.civicdashboards.com/compare), we also ranked jurisdictions in their regions.

[tkleykamp]

I've compiled approximately 75 programs that involve State to Federal transmission of data:
https://github.com/OpenDataCT/state-federal-datasets

[jalbertbowden]

standardization efforts? you want schemas?

[dsmorgan77]

Federal Spending Transparency http://fedspendingtransparency.github.io/

[dsmorgan77]

• National Emergency Medical Services Information System http://www.nemsis.org/
• Model Inventory of Roadway Elements http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/rsdp/mire.aspx which ultimately feed into an open dataset in the Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/hpms.cfm) and the All-Roads Network of Linear-referenced Data (ARNOLD https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/hpms/arnold.cfm). See also NSGIC Transportation for the Nation (https://www.nsgic.org/public_resources/01_Lewis_NSGIC_02262013.pdf)
• National Bridge Inspection Standards which outline required data elements for formulating the National Bridge Inventory and ultimately are released as open data https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi.cfm
• Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria http://mmucc.us/ which ultimately feeds into the open data for the census of fatal crashes (ftp://ftp.nhtsa.dot.gov/FARS) but applies more generally to all crash reports and would (hopefully) be implemented in State, local and tribal crash systems.
• General Transit Feed Specification https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/ and an implementation of federation to generate an open dataset in the National Transit Map http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/ntm
• Minimum Content Requirements for Addresses and an implementation of federation to generate an open dataset in the National Address Database https://www.transportation.gov/nad/challenge/minimum-content-requirements.

[dsmorgan77]

• Traffic Management Data Dictionary http://www.ite.org/standards/tmdd/
• Real-Time System Management Information Program Data Exchange Format Specification http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop13047/index.htm

[jpmckinney]

FYI the spreadsheet @JJediny links to above is from Rachel Bloom's research described here: http://geothink.ca/open-data-standards-for-improving-city-governance/

[jpmckinney]

I'll note that GitHub is a nightmare for building this sort of list. I recommend at least making a spreadsheet like this which grew out of a similar GitHub issue from GovEx.

[hudsonhollister]

The DATA Act Information Model Schema has been established by the Treasury Department under under the DATA Act to bring together all federal spending information as a single open data set. Since spending data reflects the federal government's priorities and offers a view of nearly everything the government does, there is no more important data standardization effort in government than the DAIMS.

@dsmorgan77 already shared the link: https://fedspendingtransparency.github.io/

[mbeckerle]

Government has a great deal of non-XML data. There's now a standard called DFDL (Data Format Description Language), and an open-source implementation for describing the format of non-XML text and binary data. This allows conversion into/out-of XML for publishing/access. This can create a bridge between systems in place, and modern government data-publishing needs. I suggest there should be a clearinghouse for DFDL schemas, and then for important formats, some efforts to create DFDL schemas for them. The DFDL standard is (https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/standards/dfdl/dfdl) and the open-source implementation, which was DoD funded, is (https://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/confluence/display/DFDL).