James McKinney
James McKinney is the Executive Director of Open North, a Canadian nonprofit that creates websites to promote government transparency and civic participation. With respect to open data standards, James was a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Government Linked Data Working Group, which produced the
Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT), and was a consultant to the Web Foundation for the
Open Contracting Data Standards. He is the editor of the
Popolo specifications, which have been adopted by dozens of civil society organizations to develop reusable, interchangeable, composable open source software through networks like
Poplus and
Open Civic Data. He is a frequent contributor to open data standardization efforts.