Open Spending Data Structure: Ideas and Suggestions

Representing government entities

Personas

Data producer: One who has data to load into OpenSpending
Data consumer: One who uses OpenSpending to interact with and discover spend data

User stories

  • As a data producer, I want a structured way to declare if my data is that of a government, including the level of government, and the type of data (eg: a budget), so that my data can be used by data consumers who are specifically interested in government spending, and these users can associate my data with other data packages that have the same properties
  • As a data consumer, I want a way to find data on OpenSpending by filtering/searching by region, place (country), administration type (national, regional), so that I can access data from a particular region/government