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Start with data standards, and build them transparently. Many state and federal agencies are making calls for adoption of standards in data publication, to save
by vykster 11y ago
Start with data standards, and build them transparently. Many state and federal agencies are making calls for adoption of standards in data publication, to save time designing and implementing interoperability, or simply compiling data from different jurisdictions for federal reporting.
See the recent call by the US DOT for agencies to adopt and publish transit data using the GTFS data standards (originally developed by Google for streamlining consumption of transit data )from different agencies. http://gis.rita.dot.gov/Transit/downloads/DearColleague.pdf http://gis.rita.dot.gov/Transit/downloads/DearColleague.pdf
BLDS Specification originally developed by Accela for building permits. Now many competitors are signing on and adopting the standard. http://permitdata.org/ http://permitdata.org/
- jedgardyson 11y agoThanks for the comment and the links. Your point is well taken. We are committed to building transparently and with good standards. We have looked at some existing legal documentation standards such as LegalXML[0] and are still in the process of evaluating whether or not we should implement them in our work. We are also open to developing additional standards as needed, but need to do a lot more research before we feel comfortable claiming the world needs yet another specification[1]. :) [0] http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/specs/ecf/v4.01/ecf-v4.01-spec/errata01/os/ecf-v4.01-spec-errata01-os-complete.html#_Toc343512727 http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-courtfiling/specs/ecf/v4... [1] https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/