Akoma Ntoso is developed specifically to describe machine readable parliamentary, legislative and normative documents and it is currently used by different Parliaments around the world including the Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Kenya, Hong Kong, European Parliament, Italy, Switzerland, US.
http://www.akomantoso.org/
https://www.yelp.com/healthscores
(Food safety) inspection results
"WPDx shares information on water points. The only required information is the location, date of information collection, water point type/source, and whether water was present at the time of evaluation. An additional set of commonly collected indicators can provide more information if that information is available."
The standard builds upon the Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) framework for tagging data in tabular formats.
Global Product Classification (GPC) classifies products by grouping them into categories based on their essential properties as well as their relationships to other products. Including the Global Location Number (GLN) and Global Trade Item Number (GTIN). http://www.gs1.org/gpc
http://www.gs1.org/gpc
(Food) product data
GS1
June 2016
2016-06-30
Final, but new versions expected
XML
CSV
GS1 operates a membership-based standards setting process. Details at http://www.gs1.org/standards-development
"An inter-agency working group comprising of Eurostat, the International Trade Centre (ITC), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD; as the secretariat and chair of the working group), and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has been established to support the implementation of SDMX standards in International Merchandise Trade Statistics (IMTS) in 2013.
IMTS refers to a specialized multipurpose d
http://comtrade.un.org/sdmx/
Import/export volume
UN COMTRADE
1.0
2016-04-21
Final, but new versions expected
XML
Eurostat, the International Trade Centre (ITC), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD; as the secretariat and chair of the working group), and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
SDMX is a global initiative to improve Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange.
https://sdmx.org/
Import/export volume
"The Open Geospatial Consortium Soil Data Interoperability Experiment (the IE) was conducted in 2015 under the auspices of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Agriculture Domain Working Group.
Soil data exchange and analysis is compromised by the lack of a widely agreed international standard for the exchange of data describing soils and the sampling and analytical activities relating to them. Previous modelling activities in Europe and Australasia have not yielded models that satisfy many of
Popolo Project is an international open government data specifications for goverment processes. Open data format enhancing government transparency, providing formats for people, organisations, voting events, votes, speeches etc.
http://www.popoloproject.com/
Cadasta.org provides standards for land registration.
http://www.cadasta.org
To monitor AID projects and spending the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standard is getting Common Practice.
Spatial data standards are maintained by the Open GIS Consortium http://www.opengeospatial.org/
In the EU the INSPIRE directive is regulating the exchange of spatial government data in data infrastructures. http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ and in the US this is regulated by the geographic information framework data standard. https://www.fgdc.gov/standards
For other regions specific standards may be found at the website of Ohio State University http://ncl.sbs.ohio-state.edu/ica/3_spatial.html
Open Street Map data model https://www.mapbox.com/mapping/osm-data-model/
The Global standards for meteo and climate data are given by:
World Meteorological Organisation
Climate and Forecast conventions
USGS Digital Elevation Model Standard http://nationalmap.gov/standards/demstds.html
DTED (or Digital Terrain Elevation Data)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTED
http://www.opengeospatial.org/docs/is
ISO 28258:2013 Soil quality -- Digital exchange of soil-related data http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=44595