CDF Feedback Sought
John Dziurlaj
The Common Data Format Research Group is requesting feedback by July 1st on the four published Common Data Formats (CDFs) for Election Data. The CDFs cover key areas of interoperability such as Election Results Reporting, Cast Vote Records, Election Event Logging and Voter Records Interchange.
NIST is using GitHub as a collaboration platform for CDF development. Each CDF specification has its own GitHub “repository”, one per specification.
Each Common Data Format has its of set of “issues” associated with its repository. Make sure issues are opened in the appropriate repository. Comments about CDF development in general should use the “Voting” repository, but only if the issue falls outside the other CDFs.
Here are links to each of the CDF repositories:
- Voting
- Cast Vote Records
- Election Event Logging
- Election Results Reporting
- Voter Records Interchange
Use the “Issues” tab to view current issues. Review existing issues to determine if your issue has already been raised. If not, you may use the green “New issue” button to create a new one. Feedback should be actionable and refer to one or more files in the repository. A free GitHub account is required to open issues and comment.
Please provide feedback by July 1.
Regards,
John Dziurlaj
CDF Research Group Chair
Ray Lutz
https://github.com/usnistgov/CastVoteRecords/issues/29
Deprecate XML, make JSON the recommended format.
The two formats, XML and JSON are not very different in structure. JSON has now become the industry leader while XML is no longer recommended. It is senseless to support two formats. Writers of CVRs should have one format. If they are currently writing XML, then it can be easily converted. At this stage in the standard adoption curve, there is no rationale to support two formats.
--Ray Lutz
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