Philip Ashlock

(In response to #587) We really do need to make this a higher priority and at least set a deadline for decommissioning http support. Aside from all of our other...

Agreed. For reference, here are a variety of related efforts for prioritizing or identifying "core" datasets: - U.S. Open Data Action Plan (original [CSV](https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/us_open_data_action_plan_high_value_datasets.csv)) - [NGDA](https://www.fgdc.gov/initiatives/resources/archive/previous-dataset-lists/index_html) (currently has 192) -...

The object at the outermost level was only included to demonstrate that the first and last lines could have more structure than just opening and closing brackets.

For what it's worth, the White House open data policy is currently documenting `application/swagger+json` for metadata provided by federal agencies: https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/api/ If this should be changed, please flag it is...

This is just a list of related efforts that I could come up with. There's also a good list of [related efforts on the OpenSpending website](http://community.openspending.org/research/standard/related/). # Data Standards ##...

I suggest renaming this issue to: **Open standards for data schemas and serialization formats** - Let's use the [Bruce Perens definition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard#Bruce_Perens.27_definition) of **open standard** which is widely used and even...