Department of State

Department of State Open Data Catalog

The Department's Project Open Data catalog, served as a single machine-readable DCAT-US 3.0 document at https://www.state.gov/data.json. 397 dataset entries covering Foreign Relations metadata, Humanitarian Information Unit cartography, passport and visa statistics, and international law digests, each with distribution URLs. It is the Department's own index of what it publishes, and it is the document that points at the Bureau of Consular Affairs data catalog at cadatacatalog.state.gov.

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Documentation

https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?organization=state-gov

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OpenData

https://www.state.gov/data.json

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Conformance

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/department-of-state/refs/heads/main/conformance/department-of-state-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: department-of-state:open-data-catalog
name: Department of State Open Data Catalog
description: The Department's Project Open Data catalog, served as a single machine-readable DCAT-US 3.0
  document at https://www.state.gov/data.json. 397 dataset entries covering Foreign Relations metadata,
  Humanitarian Information Unit cartography, passport and visa statistics, and international law digests,
  each with distribution URLs. It is the Department's own index of what it publishes, and it is the document
  that points at the Bureau of Consular Affairs data catalog at cadatacatalog.state.gov.
humanURL: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?organization=state-gov
baseURL: https://www.state.gov/data.json
tags:
- Open Data
- DCAT
- Catalog
properties:
- type: OpenData
  url: https://www.state.gov/data.json
- type: Documentation
  url: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?organization=state-gov
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/department-of-state-conformance.yml