About the GOVERNANCE DATA EXCHANGE DEVELOPMENT NETWORKCivicOS.netCOS2_925c8682-10f5-11e7-b9d8-ade3647280a4a non-governmental and non-for-profit partnershipDmytro PotekhinCivicOS FounderCivicOS PeopleAndriy SavdeyevDesigner, UkraineTaras GalkovskyiSenior Software Engineer, Google, USAAlex Shevelo3rd Generation IT Engineer, UkraineOlga KornushynaHuman Resources Manager, UkraineGennady KanishchenkoStrategy Masterminds Owner, UkraineEugenia Kuznetsova, PhDUniversity of Deusto, SpainTaras TymchukPolitics & Data Institute, UkraineAndriy HorbalSocial Data Center, UkraineNatalka ZubarMaidan Monitoring, UkraineDarko Brkan"ZastoNe?", Bosnia and HerzegovinaJovan JovanovicIntersection, SerbiaMichael VoitovichWorld of Communities, UkraineKateryna OkhrimenkoAmazon EU SarlNazar GrynykLead9, UkraineAlex PavlenkoZeus Electronic, UkraineAnatoliy BondarenkoTexty.org.ua, UkraineDmytro MatsyukBackend DeveloperOleg LymarchukQA EngineerAnna TroyanFront-end DeveloperOlga TroyanLegal ConsultantA data exchange standard for governance and civil society_925c87b8-10f5-11e7-b9d8-ade3647280a4To develop the missing parts of the open interoperable data description schema for governance transparency and accountability._925c886c-10f5-11e7-b9d8-ade3647280a4CooperationWhy data exchange standard for governance and civil society? -- Be it a fair elections project in Morocco, a change of the health system in Ukraine or a water supply organization in Africa, a lot depends upon cooperation and people's ability to see the issues, develop solutions, design strategies and act jointly to make sure their rights are protected, voices matter and services provided.Structured DataMore and more websites embed structured data describing for instance products, people, organizations, places, events, and procedures into their HTML pages using markup formats such as RDFa, Microdata and Microformats. As of November 2015 about 30% of HTML pages are using structured data formats such as RDFa, Microdata, Embedded JSON-LD and Microformat. This is 541 million HTML pages out of the 1.77 billion pages contained in the crawl done by WebDataCommons project.Markup StandardsAlthough initially used to improve searchability of web-pages, markup standards can also allow easy and reliable data integration solutions, which will increase transparency of governance at the local and national levels and availability of user-oriented services.Data IntegrationTransparency of GovernanceData ReuseDevelopment of the existing data description standards will also help efficient reuse of the governance-related data. DemocracySmart Descriptions & Smarter Vocabularies (SDSVoc)Develop smarter vocabularies and data descriptions._925c890c-10f5-11e7-b9d8-ade3647280a41W3CThe Smart Descriptions & Smarter Vocabularies Workshop (SDSVoc) was organized by W3C under the EU-funded VRE4EIC project and hosted by CWI in Amsterdam.EUHigh level descriptions of any dataset are likely to be very similar (title, license, creator etc.) but to be useful to another user, the metadata will need to include domain-specific information. A high profile case is data related to specific locations in time and space, and one can expect this to be part of the general descriptive regime. On the other hand, highly specialized data, such as details of experiments conducted at CERN, will always need esoteric descriptions. An important distinction needs to be made between data discovery -- for which the very general approach taken by schema.org is appropriate -- and dataset evaluation. In the latter case, an individual needs to know details of things like provenance and structure before they can evaluate its suitability for a given task. A descriptive vocabulary is only a beginning. In order to achieve real world interoperability, the way a vocabulary is used must also be specified. Application Profiles define cardinality constraints, enumerated lists of allowed values of given properties and so on, and it is the use of these that allows data to be validated and shared with confidence. DCATRevise and extend the Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT)_925c89b6-10f5-11e7-b9d8-ade3647280a41.1Guidance & ExemplarsProvide guidance and exemplars of DCAT use._925c8a6a-10f5-11e7-b9d8-ade3647280a41.2Content NegotiationStandardize, or support the standardization elsewhere, of content negotiation by profile._925c8b14-10f5-11e7-b9d8-ade3647280a41.3Democracy Data ExchangeExchange data relating to the exercise of democracy._925c8bc8-10f5-11e7-b9d8-ade3647280a42CDDRLFreeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University -- The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law bridges the worlds of scholarship, policy and practice to understand and advance the conditions for just, democratic, and sustainable development around the world._925c8c86-10f5-11e7-b9d8-ade3647280a42017-03-24http://civicos.net/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net