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OpenGovLD

This is OpenGovLD (working title), a fork of the original OParl project and continues the work on specifications based on JSON-LD (Linked Data) while OParl only supports JSON and will not be compatible with JSON-LD.

Highlights, Features and Principles

• Expressive Linked Data
• Uses the namespace https://www.w3.org/ns/opengov
• Based on standards, not Ad Hoc solutions, no reinventing of wheels, avoiding NIH syndrome
• High quality specification, using established standardization processes and guidelines
• Modular structure of specification, supporting conformance statements
• Main target user group consists of developers of comfortable, feature rich and advanced applications
• Oriented towards future, not dependent on legacy technology, standards or specifications
• Collaboration with W3C Open Government Community Group, schema.org and other relevant projects (such as OParl and Popolo)
• Multilingual and supporting stakeholders on the whole planet
• Based on existing state of the art standards (such as JSON-LD)
• Integrated with established and best-of-breed Linked Data vocabularies
• 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
• Last but not least: the development processes are governed by transparency and the direct involvement of all interested stakeholders

Summary

The goal of OpenGovLD is to become the state of the art specification for parliamentary data which can be used globally - first of all by joining forces with other best of breed specification projects.

2014-07-06