RE: Open Government Data and Voter Decision Support Technology

Adam, one of the use cases for the StratML standard is:  Goal 9:
<http://stratml.us/carmel/iso/UC4SwStyle.xml#_0fc1db9c-08a5-11e6-b06f-a2fa45
c7ae33>  Candidates for Elective Office - Publish the issue statements of
candidates for elective office as performance plans on the Web in open,
standard, machine-readable format.

 

I've begun to demonstrate that concept at http://ambur.net/#Candidates

 

However, before voters can realize the benefits, it will be necessary for
value-added intermediaries to provide query
<http://stratml.us/carmel/iso/SMLTASwStyle.xml#_2384ee90-208f-11e6-8dd1-b735
871eb3cb> , analytical
<http://stratml.us/carmel/iso/SMLTASwStyle.xml#_2384f48a-208f-11e6-8dd1-b735
871eb3cb> , strategic alignment
<http://stratml.us/carmel/iso/SMLTASwStyle.xml#_2384f840-208f-11e6-8dd1-b735
871eb3cb>  and relationship-building
<http://stratml.us/carmel/iso/SMLTASwStyle.xml#_2384f6b0-208f-11e6-8dd1-b735
871eb3cb>  services leveraging such data.  I hope to engage partners in
helping to build such services.  See, for example, http://aboutthem.info/ 

 

With respect to open government data, besides Data.gov, among the best
efforts of the U.S. federal government thus far are SEC
<https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-117> 's adoption of XBRL and
the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM <https://www.niem.gov/> ),
based on the W3C's XML Recommendation <https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/>  but now
also with support for JSON <https://www.niem.gov/techhub/json> .  

 

In section 10
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-machine-readable-government-owen-ambur/
>  of the GPRA Modernization Act (GPRAMA), Congress also mandated for
Federal agencies what is a good practice for agencies at all levels of
government worldwide.  Toward broader implementation of that practice, a
good place to build upon the progress thus far would be to render the Open
Government Partnership (OGP) national action plans (NAPs) in open, standard,
machine-readable StratML format.  https://www.opengovpartnership.org/tag/nap


 

With reference to voting, since more of the same is unlikely to deliver a
different result, among the long-term, more visionary aims of the StratML
standard is to disintermediate politics and politicians from as many
functions as possible - by enabling those with common and complementary
objectives to work more efficiently and effectively together to achieve
them.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fighting-political-polarization-owen-ambur/

 

Owen Ambur

Chair,  <http://stratml.us/> StratML Working Group

Co-Chair Emeritus,  <http://xml.govwebs.net/> xml.gov CoP

Webmaster,  <http://firmcouncil.org/> FIRM

 <https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenambur> Profile on LinkedIn | Personal
<http://ambur.net/> Home Page

 

 

From: Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2018 3:38 AM
To: public-opengov@w3.org
Subject: Open Government Data and Voter Decision Support Technology

 

W3C Open Government Community Group,

 

I think that there is something to Web-based and desktop-based information
dashboards and decision support systems for voters. Such decision support
systems could aggregate election news articles and provide data
visualization with respect to local, state and national elections.

 

I recently started some discussions about a new contest pertaining to the
design of voter decision support systems. I indicated that there should be a
well-publicized and periodic, e.g. annual, contest of designs and design
concepts. I indicated that we would want to facilitate the best new designs
and design concepts with advancements to Web standards including news
article metadata and schema.

 

We could also facilitate the best new ideas with advancements to open
government data, with advancements to data.gov .

 

 

Best regards,

Adam Sobieski

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