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DataSF | Data Standards Handbook
  • Introduction
  • Data Structure and Formats
    • Data Structure and Formats
      • Column Headers & Order
      • Date and Time
      • Text
      • Numeric
      • Location (coordinates)
      • Location (addresses)
  • Standard Reference Data
    • Reference Data Overview
    • Reference: General Admin
      • Department Names and Codes
    • Reference: Demographics
      • Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity
      • Race and Ethnicity
        • City and County of San Francisco
          • San Francisco Recommended Standard
            • Appendices
          • Department of Public Health’s Ethnicity Guidelines
        • State of California
        • Federal Government
    • Reference: Basemap
      • Overview
      • Parcels
      • Building Footprints
      • Address Numbers
      • Street Names
      • Street Suffix Abbreviations
      • Street Centerlines and Nodes
    • Reference: Boundaries
      • Census
      • Neighborhoods
      • Supervisor Districts
      • Zoning Use Districts
  • Appendix
    • Reserved Column Names
    • Reference Data Index
    • Contributing
    • Acknowledgements
    • License
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operates the City and County of San Francisco's . We are documenting standards to make data more useful and consistent across the City at scale.

This document serves several purposes:

  1. Introduce more consistency within the open data publishing process

  2. Provide a single enduring, open document to help onboard new staff

  3. Provide a reference for data publishers and users

  4. Clarify departmental stewardship of certain reference data

We lean heavily on existing precedent where available. The scope includes:

  1. Formats and data structure

  2. Common reference standards (lists) that are useful across datasets and departments

We are not including domain-specific standards here like Open311 or LIVES which have their own documentation and communities. We are also not using this to propose new domain specific standards.

Throughout this guide we reference standard names and lists, please refer to the appendix for and an .

DataSF
official open data portal
reserved column names
index of reference data