Open Civic Data

Open Civic Data is a community-maintained set of specifications and shared identifiers for civic information — Open Civic Data Division Identifiers (OCD-IDs) for political geographies, plus normalized models for jurisdictions, organizations, people, posts, memberships, bills, votes, and events. Underlies OpenStates' scrapers, Google's Civic Information API, and many state/local civic data pipelines.

Open Civic Data is one of 21 APIs that Public Sector publishes on the APIs.io network.

Tagged areas include Civic Tech, Standards, Identifiers, OCD-ID, and Jurisdictions. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

Documentation GitHub

Documentation

https://opencivicdata.readthedocs.io

SDKs

GitHubRepository

https://github.com/opencivicdata/ocd-division-ids

Other Resources

GitHubOrganization

https://github.com/opencivicdata

https://github.com/opencivicdata/docs.opencivicdata.org

API entry from apis.yml

name: Open Civic Data
description: Open Civic Data is a community-maintained set of specifications and shared identifiers for
  civic information — Open Civic Data Division Identifiers (OCD-IDs) for political geographies, plus normalized
  models for jurisdictions, organizations, people, posts, memberships, bills, votes, and events. Underlies
  OpenStates' scrapers, Google's Civic Information API, and many state/local civic data pipelines.
humanURL: https://opencivicdata.readthedocs.io
tags:
- Civic Tech
- Standards
- Identifiers
- OCD-ID
- Jurisdictions
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://opencivicdata.readthedocs.io
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/opencivicdata
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/opencivicdata/ocd-division-ids
- type: Specification
  url: https://github.com/opencivicdata/docs.opencivicdata.org