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What specifications are out there for the precision required to store money?
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB)
FASAB as a slighltly murky relationship with GAAP, but it's "the body that establishes GAAP for federal reporting entities." I believe it publishes ...
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Alternative to GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification)?
Transmodel is a not very widely used format for schedule data (alternative to GTFS).
For real time data (alternative to GTFS-realtime): SIRI is an XML protocol used most heavily in Europe.
You'll ...
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What's the best way to host map tiles?
Apart from MapBox mentioned by Harry I'd also recommend having a look at CartoDB which let's you harness the power of PosGIS without the hassle of maintaining your own server (at a price).
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State and country codes like ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2?
Here's a number of options:
ISO 3166-2 subdivisions JSON
ISO 3166-1 country lists merged w/ UN Geoscheme regional codes in JSON, XML, CSV
ISO 3166-2 NPM Package
CSV of ISO 3166-2
List of ...
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Is there an open standard for the CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Finance Report)?
Two standards you may wish to consider are XBRL and Frictionless Data.
I have been working on a municipal XBRL taxonomy with others. You can see the current status here: https://github.com/govwiki/...
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Is there an open standard for the CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Finance Report)?
There does not seem to be a separate data standard for CAFR, but you may want to consider XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language).
The State of Oregon piloted providing CAFR in XBRL format and ...
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Government standards, guidelines, and practices for collecting data
Civic Common's Open Data Guidelines seem to be the default reference for most standards that I'm aware of. It's important to point out that Civic Commons is not a government entity/agency, however ...
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Metadata standards and best practices for data dictionaries for CSV files/data
It looks like Jeni Tennison took her Linked CSV spec to the W3C, and with some help from Gregg Kellogg and Ivan Herman it evolved into the Model for Tabular Data and Metadata on the Web and the ...
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Metadata standards and best practices for data dictionaries for CSV files/data
The Data Documentation Initiative provides the DDI metadata standard for describing data dictionaries.
http://www.ddialliance.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Documentation_Initiative
The DDI ...
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Is there (or should there be) a standard way to categorize procurement data at the municipal level?
You hit on a particularly relevant pain-point when it comes to procurement data. The purchasing thresholds differ wildly across the map, and there isn't any universal standard for classification.
I ...
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Do you know any open/standard resume format?
h-resume (formally hresume) is a simple, open format for publishing resumes and CVs on on the web. h-resume is one of several open microformat draft standards suitable for embedding data in HTML.
h-...
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Do you know any open/standard resume format?
i guess this is an old question, but there is HR-XML now. http://schemas.liquid-technologies.com/hr-xml/2007-04-15/
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What's the best way to host map tiles?
I actually no longer recommend CartoDB (which has since been renamed to CARTO), although I was once a power user and helped build the platform from its open-source days.
For maptile hosting, I'd go ...
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Standards for documenting gaps in data?
In RDF, you can do the trick mixing these ingredients:
an observation ontology or vocabulary;
RDF blank nodes;
a provenance ontology.
Sensor and Observations Ontologies
There are many ontologies ...
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What standards exist for accessibility of open data?
I'm going to assume that the data is in some graphical format -- if it's numerical data, then the visualization would be a function of the software that's using it.
For images, there isn't anything ...
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Open data quality frameworks
In December 2016, the Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group (Group Page, Group Charter) have published the Data Quality Vocabulary. This vocabulary is a meta-framework for frameworks that ...
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Open data quality frameworks
You can benchmark data vs. Open Data Census, you can use linting tools (CSV Lint, JSON Lint, etc.), and you can make them all into Data Packages.
I'm curious to why linked data is not a priority ...
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Data Standards for Campaign Finance
Political Disclosure Standard Electronic Reporting Format (PDSERF) is one such example. It may very well constitute the first such format.
Question and Answer on DBA.StackExchange
Github project with ...
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What standards are available for classifying Organizations and Businesses?
Two standards are big in the USA, but there may be many others
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) (older US standard)
You can read about ...
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Are there domain standards for open data?
Your question is quite open ended and answers may be quite subjective, but here are some resources and pointers.
There are in fact many different domain specific standard data models and exchange ...
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What specifications are out there for the precision required to store money?
Wikipedia hosts this page where world currencies and therir fractions are collected. There are ony 6 currencies which need 3 fractional digits and the rest needs 2 fractional digits. So, it would work ...
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Do you know any open/standard resume format?
Take a look at the EU Europass project.
CVs can be saved out in a Europass XML format.
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What standards are available for classifying Organizations and Businesses?
Microformats
Microdata
Schema
QB4OLAP - Business Intelligence over Linked Data.
FIBO - Financial Industry Business Ontology
XBRL - eXtensible Business Reporting Language
Always helpful to peruse ...
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What standards exist for accessibility of open data?
to answer part of your question, if you're displaying your data, the same standards that apply to html, should apply here: use lean, semantic markup; apply tabkeys when applicable; etc. extra special ...
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