Standards bodySample
World Wide Web Consortium
W3C
Develops open web standards, including the vocabularies that make datasets discoverable, describable and linkable across the web.
What they publish
- DCATStandard
- Data Catalog Vocabulary: an RDF vocabulary for describing datasets in catalogues and portals.
- Data on the Web Best PracticesPrinciples
- Recommendations for publishing and using data on the web.
- PROVStandard
- A model for recording where data came from and how it was produced.
- RDFStandard
- The graph data model behind linked data.
Working on similar things
EC
Public body · since 1958
European Commission
The executive of the European Union: it proposes EU data law and tracks how member states progress on open data every year.
OCP
Non-profit · since 2015
Open Contracting Partnership
Works to open up public procurement, one of the largest areas of government spending, so contracts can be followed from planning to delivery.
OKF
Non-profit · since 2004
Open Knowledge Foundation
A global non-profit that has shaped the open data movement since 2004: it wrote the Open Definition, created the CKAN portal software and ran the Global Open Data Index.