PublicSectorAgency

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://api-evangelist.github.io/public-sector/json-schema/public-sector-agency-schema.json",
  "title": "PublicSectorAgency",
  "description": "A government agency / bureau / commission / program at federal, state, county, or municipal level. Aligns with schema.org/GovernmentOrganization and with the Open Civic Data jurisdiction model. Identifiers favour stable URIs published by the agency itself (api.data.gov gateway URL, agency homepage, OCD-ID for political geography) over locally minted IDs.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["id", "name", "level", "country"],
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri-reference",
      "description": "Stable identifier for the agency. Prefer an Open Civic Data Division Identifier (ocd-division/country:us/state:ca) for elected/jurisdictional bodies; otherwise the agency's canonical homepage URL or its api.data.gov gateway URL."
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Official name of the agency (e.g. 'General Services Administration', 'Federal Election Commission', 'City of Chicago Department of Innovation and Technology')."
    },
    "shortName": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Official abbreviation (e.g. 'GSA', 'FEC', 'USDA', 'NASA')."
    },
    "alternateNames": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": { "type": "string" },
      "description": "Other commonly used names or historical names."
    },
    "level": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": ["federal", "state", "territorial", "tribal", "county", "municipal", "special-district", "international"],
      "description": "Government level. 'federal' = U.S. national; 'state' = U.S. state or D.C.; 'tribal' = federally recognized tribal government; 'special-district' = single-purpose government (school, water, transit)."
    },
    "country": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Z]{2}$",
      "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. 'US')."
    },
    "jurisdiction": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "The political geography this agency governs. Uses Open Civic Data Division Identifiers where applicable.",
      "properties": {
        "ocdId": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Open Civic Data Division Identifier (e.g. 'ocd-division/country:us/state:tx/place:austin')."
        },
        "name": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Human-readable jurisdiction name."
        },
        "state": {
          "type": "string",
          "pattern": "^[A-Z]{2}$",
          "description": "USPS two-letter state code for U.S. agencies."
        }
      }
    },
    "parentAgency": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri-reference",
      "description": "ID or URL of the parent agency (e.g. Internal Revenue Service -> Department of the Treasury)."
    },
    "mission": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Statutory mission statement or one-paragraph description."
    },
    "url": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "Official agency homepage."
    },
    "developerPortalUrl": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "Developer / API portal URL if one exists."
    },
    "dataPortalUrl": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "Open-data portal URL (data.gov organization page, Socrata domain, CKAN catalog)."
    },
    "foiaUrl": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "Freedom of Information Act / FOIA request portal."
    },
    "apis": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Public-facing programmatic surfaces the agency exposes.",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": ["name", "url"],
        "properties": {
          "name": { "type": "string" },
          "url": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
          "type": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": ["REST", "SOAP", "GraphQL", "SODA", "CKAN", "RSS", "WMS", "WFS", "OGCAPI", "BulkData", "JSON-LD", "OData", "gRPC", "WebSocket"]
          },
          "authMethod": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": ["none", "api-key", "api.data.gov", "OAuth2", "Basic", "MutualTLS", "User-Agent"]
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "githubOrg": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "Official GitHub organization (e.g. https://github.com/GSA, https://github.com/usnationalarchives)."
    },
    "statutoryAuthority": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": { "type": "string" },
      "description": "Statutes establishing the agency or its data-publication obligation (e.g. 'Open Government Data Act of 2018', 'DATA Act of 2014', 'Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018')."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": true
}