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As we descend into the buzz of the biggest week of the open calendar at OKFestival, the OpenSpending team wanted to quickly drop you a line about a piece of research we have been collaborating on together with the International Budget Partnership, Omidyar Network, and Google: a draft specification for budget data.
As members of this community will be only too aware, the benefits of structured, machine-readable, and internationally comparable budget data have now been discussed in numerous fora. A flexible but usable global data standard would need to be developed and widely adopted to make this happen.
Recognising the significant challenges posed by variations across national and sub-national budgets, Open Knowledge, with input and technical advice from the International Budget Partnership, Omidyar Network and Google, have begun a scoping exercise, producing an initial proposal for a draft specification (Budget Data package) which could form the basis of a global standard.
The draft specification (Budget Data Package) can be found here:
Input from the whole financial data community – publishers, investigators, citizens – is going to be necessary if this specification is going to meet users' needs and become a true standard: an open consultation session begins.
We want your feedback! There are numerous ways to leave feedback on the specification:
- Via Github issues. This is also the best way to register your interest in being part of the coalition of users who will take ownership of the project's ongoing development.
- Coming to OKFestival? Why not schedule a time to talk to us directly? The budget spec featured in the session "Government Budgets: Joining the Dots" - and we're still available to discuss the future of the project.
- When the dust has settled from OKFestival, we will also schedule a community call to further discuss the specification. Interested in joining? Send us an email.
We look forward to speaking to you at the festival and beyond.